Hiram R. Burton

Hiram Rodney Burton ( born November 13, 1841 in Lewes, Delaware, † June 17, 1927 ) was an American politician. Between 1905 and 1909 he represented the State of Delaware in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hiram Burton attended primary school in his home and then the St. Peter Academy, also in his birthplace of Lewes. He then spent two years as a teacher in Sussex County. Between 1862 and 1865 he acted in Washington haberdashery. After studying medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and its made ​​in 1868 Admitted to the doctor, he began to practice in his new profession in Frankford. There he remained until 1872, then he moved back to Lewes.

Burton was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1877 and 1888 he was deputy head of the customs authority at the port of Lewes. In the years 1890-1893 he was employed at the U.S. Navy Hospital in Lewes as a doctor. In 1898, he ran unsuccessfully for the Senate from Delaware. 1896, 1900 and 1908 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions relevant, on which William McKinley and William Howard Taft was nominated as the presidential candidate. 1904 Burton was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he succeeded the Democrats Henry A. Houston on March 4, 1905. After he was confirmed in his mandate in the elections of 1906, he was able to complete two terms in Congress, 1909 to March 3.

In 1908, Burton was not nominated by his party. After that he worked as a doctor again. 1912 failed for reelection to Congress. He received only 11% of the vote, which was due to a split within his party, which led at the federal level on the election victory of Democrat Woodrow Wilson in the presidential elections. In the following years he was alongside his work as a doctor also President of the National Bank of Lewes. The married Virginia Rawlins physician and politician died in June 1927 in his birthplace of Lewes and was buried in Georgetown.