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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriCharles Germman BURTON
(1846-1926)
BURTON, Charles Germman, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Cleveland, Ohio, April 4,
1846; moved to Warren, Ohio, and attended the public schools;
enlisted as a private September 7, 1861, in Company C, Nineteenth
Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served with the regiment
until discharged October 29, 1862; corporal in Company A, One
Hundred and Seventy-first Regiment, Ohio National Guard, during the
“one hundred days” campaign of 1864; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in Warren, Ohio, in 1867; moved to Virgil City,
Mo., in 1868, to Erie, Kans., in 1869, and Nevada, Vernon County,
Mo., in 1871, where he practiced law; circuit attorney and judge of
the twenty-fifth circuit; delegate to the Republican National
Conventions in 1884 and 1904; elected as a Republican to the
Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress;
resumed the practice of law; collector of internal revenue at
Kansas City, Mo., 1907-1915; commander in chief of the Grand Army
of the Republic in 1908; died in Kansas City, Mo., February 25,
1926; interment in Deepwood Cemetery, Nevada, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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