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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioHarold Hitz BURTON
(1888-1964)
Senate Years of Service:
1941-1945Party: RepublicanBURTON, Harold Hitz, a
Senator from Ohio; born in Jamaica Plain, Mass., June 22, 1888;
attended the public schools; graduated from Bowdoin College,
Brunswick, Maine, in 1909, and from the law department of Harvard
University in 1912; admitted to the bar in 1912 and commenced
practice in Cleveland, Ohio; assistant attorney for a power company
in Salt Lake City, Utah 1914-1916 and attorney for a power company
in Boise, Idaho 1916-1917; during the First World War served in the
army as lieutenant, and later as captain, in 1917 and 1918; resumed
the practice of law in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1919; instructor in
Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 1923-1925; member of
the board of education of East Cleveland in 1928 and 1929; member,
State house of representatives 1929; director of law of Cleveland
1929-1932; mayor of Cleveland 1935-1940; elected as a Republican to
the United States Senate in 1940 and served from January 3, 1941,
until his resignation on September 30, 1945; associate justice of
the Supreme Court of the United States from 1945 until his
retirement October 13, 1958; was a resident of Cleveland, Ohio;
died in Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C., October
28, 1964; cremated at Highland Park Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Hudon, Edward. The
Occasional Papers of Mr. Justice Burton. Brunswick, Maine:
Bowdoin College, 1969; U.S. Supreme Court. Proceedings of the
Bar and Officers of the Supreme Court of the United States, May 24,
1965. Proceedings before the Supreme Court of the United States May
24, 1965. In Memory of Harold H. Burton. Washington: 1965.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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