James A. Burke (Massachusetts politician)

James Anthony Burke ( born March 30, 1910 in Boston, Massachusetts, † October 13, 1983 ) was an American politician. Between 1959 and 1979 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Burke attended the common schools and graduated from Suffolk University afterwards. He then worked for the City of Boston as Registrar of Vital Statistics. During the Second World War he served in the intelligence service of the U.S. Army in the South Pacific. He was ten years in the administration of the Massachusetts General Court. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. At times, he was the deputy state chairman. He also sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

In the congressional elections of 1958, Burke was in the 13th electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 1959. After nine elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1979 ten legislative periods. Since 1963, Burke took the eleventh district of his state. In this time were, among others, the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement and in 1974, the Watergate affair. 1978 renounced Burke on another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, James Burke withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Milton. He died on October 13, 1983 in Boston.

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