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American politician
James Anthony Burke
(March 30, 1910 ? October 13, 1983) was a
United States Representative
from
Massachusetts
from 1959 to 1979.
He was born in
Boston, Massachusetts
. He was educated in the
Boston public schools
and Lincoln Preparatory School and attended
Suffolk University
.
Burke was a real estate salesman, and served in appointive positions including registrar of
vital statistics
for the city of Boston.
He was a
Democrat
, and served in the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
from 1937 to 1939.
During
World War II
Burke was a
special agent
in
Counter-intelligence
, attached to the
77th Infantry Division
in the
South Pacific
.
After the war he was again elected to the Massachusetts House, serving four terms, 1947 to 1955, and attaining the position of assistant
majority leader
.
He served as vice chairman of the
Massachusetts Democratic State Committee
for four years. He was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for
lieutenant governor
in 1954, and ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in 1956.
In 1958 Burke was elected to the
Eighty-sixth
Congress. He was reelected to the nine succeeding Congresses, and served from January 3, 1959, to January 3, 1979. He rose through seniority to become the second-ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, and was considered an expert on the Social Security system. Burke was not a candidate for
reelection in 1978
to the
Ninety-sixth Congress
.
He was a resident of
Milton, Massachusetts
, until his death in
Boston, Massachusetts
, on October 13, 1983, and his interment was at
Milton Cemetery
in
Milton, Massachusetts
.
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The 18th Suffolk District sent two representatives to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1939.
Michael Paul Feeney
and
Frank J. Morrison
succeeded Burke and
Patrick J. Welsh
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