Frank Gerard Burke served as Acting Archivist of the United States

Archivist of the United States

The Archivist of the United States is the chief official overseeing the operation of the National Archives and Records Administration. The first Archivist, R.D.W. Connor, began serving in 1934, when the National Archives was established as an independent federal agency by Congress...

 from April 16, 1985, to December 4, 1987.

Burke joined the staff of the National Archives

National Archives and Records Administration

The National Archives and Records Administration is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with increasing public access to those documents, which comprise the National Archives...

 in 1967 as an information retrieval specialist, after holding previous positions at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

 library and the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...

. He was one of the first National Archives employees to advocate the development of computer software for storage of archival information.
He succeeded Robert M. Warner

Robert M. Warner

Robert M. Warner was an American historian who served as the Sixth Archivist of the United States at the National Archives, from 1980 to 1985....

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External links

• Dr. Frank G. Burke, Professor Emeritus via University of Maryland
• Archivists of the United States, 1934-present