John C. Burch

John Chilton Burch ( born February 1, 1826 at Boone County, Missouri, † August 31 1885 in San Francisco, California ) was an American politician. Between 1859 and 1861 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Burch attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law in Jefferson City and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. Burch was then employed as a Deputy Clerk in the management in Cole County. He also served as an Assistant Adjutant General member of the command center of the National Guard of Missouri. During the Gold Rush, Burch moved in 1950 to California, where he worked in the mines until 1851. After that he was in the newly created District Trinity County. In 1853 he was district attorney. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1856 he was a deputy in the California State Assembly; 1857 to 1859 he was a member of the State Senate.

In the state- wide discharged congressional elections of 1858 Burch was the first seat of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph C. McKibbin on March 4, 1859. Until March 3, 1861, he was able to complete a term in Congress. This was marked by the events in the immediate run-up to the Civil War. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Burch worked as a lawyer in San Francisco. For four years he was a member of the Law Commission of his state (Code Commissioner). An appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court of California he refused. Between 1879 and 1881 he was employed as a Secretary of the Senate in the management of the U.S. Senate. John Burch died on August 31, 1885 in San Francisco.