Michael E. Burke

Michael Edmund Burke ( * October 15, 1863 in Beaver Dam, Dodge County, Wisconsin, † December 12, 1918 ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1917 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Michael Burke attended the common schools and the Wayland Academy, from which he graduated in 1884. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and its made ​​in 1888 admitted to the bar he began in Beaver Dam to work in his new profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. From 1887 to 1889 was Burke Town Clerk ( Town Clerk ) in his home town. Between 1891 and 1893 he sat as an MP in the Wisconsin State Assembly; 1895 to 1899 he was a member of the State Senate. Between 1893 and 1908 he was also the legal representative of the city of Beaver Dam. From 1908 to 1910 he officiated there as mayor. Burke 1904 was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, was nominated on the Alton B. Parker as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1910, Burke was in the sixth constituency of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles H. White on March 4, 1911. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1917 three legislative periods. However, since 1913 he represented there as the successor of John M. Nelson of the second district of Wisconsin. During his time in Congress, the 16th and the 17th Amendment, there have been adopted. In the 1916 elections Burke defeated Republican Edward Voigt.

Michael Burke died on December 12, 1918 in Beaver Dam and was also buried there.

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