Edmund Burke (congressman)
Edmund Burke ( born January 23, 1809 in Westminster, Windham County, Vermont; † January 25, 1882 in Newport, New Hampshire ) was an American politician. Between 1839 and 1845 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Edmund Burke attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and its made in 1826 admitted to the bar he began in Cole Brook ( New Hampshire) to work in his new profession. In 1833 he moved to Claremont, where he went into the newspaper business. A year later, in 1834, he moved to Newport, where he published two daily newspapers united and the new sheet for several years.
Burke was also a member of the state militia of New Hampshire. In the years 1837 and 1838 he was employed as adjutant and inspector of the High Command of the unit. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1838, which were held all across the state, he was for the second parliamentary seat from New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1839, the successor of James Farrington. After two re- election he was able to complete in 1845 three contiguous legislatures in Congress until March 3. These were overshadowed by the tensions between the President John Tyler and the Whig Party since 1841. The question of a possible connection of the then independent Republic of Texas to the United States was a highly controversial topic.
1844 renounced Burke on another candidacy. In the same year he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore, on the James K. Polk was nominated as presidential candidate of the party. In 1846, Burke was appointed by the Polk now elected president patent agents of the federal government. This office he held until September 3, 1850. Then Burke again worked as a lawyer. In 1852 he was again a delegate to the national convention of the Democrats, on the Franklin Pierce was nominated for the presidency. In 1867 he headed the regional Congress of Democrats in New Hampshire. His last political mandate practiced Edmund Burke in 1871 as a member of the Agriculture Committee of New Hampshire from. He died on 25 January 1882 in Newport and was also buried there.