Burton L. French

Burton Lee French ( * August 1, 1875 in Delphi, Carroll County, Indiana, † September 12, 1954 in Hamilton, Ohio ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1933 he represented several times the state of Idaho in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years

In 1880, Burton French moved with his parents to Kearney, Nebraska, and two years later to the Idaho Territory. There he attended the public schools and thereafter until 1901, the University of Idaho. Between 1901 and 1903 he studied at the University of Chicago. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer in Moscow, he began to work in his new profession.

Political career

Burton Frenchs political career began even during his student days. He became a member of the Republican Party. Between 1898 and 1902 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Idaho. In the congressional elections of 1902, French was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced Thomas L. Glenn on March 4, 1903. After he was re-elected in each of the years 1904 and 1906, he was able to implement his mandate in Congress until March 3, 1909. In the elections of 1908 his seat went to Thomas Ray Hamer.

Two years later, in 1910, Burton then managed the re-entry into the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he was able to complete two other legislative periods between 4 March 1911 to 3 March 1915. In 1914, Burton did not run for re-election; Instead, he applied unsuccessfully within his party for the nomination for the U.S. Senate. In 1916 he returned to an election victory back in the U.S. House of Representatives. After the appropriate re- election there followed eight contiguous legislative sessions until March 3, 1933; during this time he was on, among others, Chairman of the Committee Memorial. In the years 1930 and 1931 French was an American delegate to international conferences in London and Bucharest.

Further CV

In the years 1932 and 1934 ran unsuccessfully French to remain or to return to Congress. After that, he was Professor of Government Affairs at the Miami University in Oxford ( Ohio). He held from 1935 to 1947, this teaching. In 1947, French was appointed by President Harry S. Truman in the Federal Loyalty Review Board. Until 1953 he remained a member of that body. Burton French died in September 1954 in Ohio and was buried in Moscow.