Phillip Burton

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Phillip Burton (June 1, 1926 - April 10, 1983) was a United States Representative from California. He was born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. He attended Washington High School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and graduated from George Washington High School in Richmond District, California in 1944. He earned a B.A. from the University of Southern California in 1947 and an LL.B. from Golden Gate Law School in 1952. He worked as a lawyer and was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, 1956.

Burton was a member of the United States Air Force during both World War Two and the Korean War. He was a member of the California state assembly, 1956-1964. He represented the United States at the Atlantic Treaty Association Conference in France, 1959. He was a delegate to the California State Democratic convention, 1968-1982. He was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 1968 and 1970. He was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative John F. Shelley, and reelected to the ten succeeding Congresses (February 18, 1964 - April 10, 1983). He died on April 10, 1983, in San Francisco, California. He was cremated and the ashes were interred in the National Cemetery of the Presidio. His wife Sala Burton won a special election to serve the remainder of his term.

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Bibliography

Jacobs, John. A Rage for Justice: The Passion and Politics of Phillip Burton. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

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