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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsJames Anthony BURKE
(1910-1983)
BURKE, James Anthony, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., March 30,
1910; educated in the Boston public schools and Lincoln Preparatory
School; attended Suffolk University; registrar of vital statistics
for the city of Boston; during the Second World War was special
agent in the Counter-intelligence, attached to the Seventy-seventh
Infantry Division in the South Pacific; member of the Massachusetts
general court for ten years; member of the Massachusetts house of
representatives for four years, serving as assistant majority
leader; vice chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic State
committee for four years; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth
and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3,
1979); was not a candidate for reelection in 1978 to the
Ninety-sixth Congress; was a resident of Milton, Mass. until his
death in Boston, Mass. on October 13, 1983; interment at Milton
Cemetery, Milton, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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