Edward Raymond Burke was a Nebraska

Nebraska

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 Democratic Party politician.
Burke moved to Sparta, Wisconsin

Sparta, Wisconsin

Sparta is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County, Wisconsin, United States, along the La Crosse River. The population was 9,522 at the 2010 census.-Notable people:*William Hawley Atwell, U.S. District Court Judge in Texas*Larry Baumel, NASCAR...

 with his parents and then Beloit, Wisconsin where he went to Beloit College

Beloit College

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. Burke graduated in 1906, moved to Chadron, Nebraska

Chadron, Nebraska

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 where he taught school until 1908. He graduated from Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School

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 and was admitted to the bar in 1911. Afterwards, he set up shop in Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha, Nebraska

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During the World War I

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 he enlisted and served as a second lieutenant in the Air Service from 1917 to 1919. He served as the president of the board of education for Omaha from 1927 to 1930. He was elected to the Seventy-third Congress from Nebraska in 1933 and then ran for Senator from in 1934. Serving from January 3, 1935, to January 3, 1941, he chaired the U.S. Senate Committee on Claims. He failed to be renominated for the seat in 1940.

He resumed his law practice in Omaha in 1941 and moved to Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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 in 1942 to serve as president of the Southern Coal Producers Association until 1947. He was a Washington representative and general counsel for Hawaii

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an Statehood Commission until 1950, when he retired to Kensington, Maryland

Kensington, Maryland

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. He died in 1968, and was interred in Fort Lincoln Mausoleum.