Theodore Weld Burdick

Theodore Weld Burdick ( born October 7, 1836 in Evansburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, † July 16, 1898 in Decorah, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1879 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Theodore Burdick attended the public schools of his home and moved in 1853 with his parents to Decorah in Iowa. There he began to work in banking. Between 1854 and 1857 he was first deputy and 1858-1862 actual eunuchs in Winneshiek County, where he also still as a log recorder ( recorder ) worked.

During the Civil War he presented in 1862 to a cavalry company for the Union army, which he commanded as a captain. After the war he returned to Decorah, where he worked as a cashier at the First National Bank. Politically, Burdick member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1876 he was in the third electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat Lucien Lester Ainsworth on March 4, 1877. Since he resigned in 1878 to run again, Burdick was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1879.

After his time in the House of Representatives Theodore Burdick again worked in banking in Decorah and at times in Sault Ste. Marie ( Michigan). Between 1886 and 1887 he was a member of the Senate of Iowa. He died on July 16, 1898 in Decorah.