John H. Burke

John Harley Burke ( born June 2, 1894 in Excelsior, Richland County, Wisconsin, † May 14, 1951 in Long Beach, California ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

1897 John Burke moved with his parents to Milaca, Minnesota and three years later to San Pedro, California. Since 1909, the family lived in Long Beach. He attended the public schools of his respective home and studied at Santa Clara University after that. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and his in 1917 was admitted to the bar he began in Long Beach to work in this profession. This activity was interrupted by his military service during the First World War. He was a soldier in a training camp in the U.S. Army in Kentucky. After the war, Burke was also active in the oil industry. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1932 Burke was in the then newly established 18th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1933. Since he resigned in 1934 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1935. There, then, the first New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Burke worked in the real estate industry. He died on 14 May 1951 in Long Beach.