| LC control no. | n 89626574 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Burke, Charles H. |
| Variant(s) | Burke, Chas. H. (Charles Henry) |
| Other standard no. | B001087 http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001087 6917277 http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6917277 0000000039696894 http://www.isni.org/0000000039696894 1616254 http://viaf.org/viaf/1616254 Q1064658 http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1064658 |
| Associated place | South Dakota |
| Located | Dakota Territory Beadle County (S.D.) Hughes County (S.D.) |
| Birth date | 1861-04-01 |
| Death date | 1944-04-07 |
| Place of birth | Genesee County (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. House United States. Office of Indian Affairs |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Republican Party members (United States) Lawyers |
| Found in | nuc89-23255: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs. Disposition and sale of allotments ... [MI] 1910 (hdg. on LCP rept.: Burke, Charles H.) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Cong. WWW site, Sept. 26, 2006 (Charles Henry Burke, Rep. from South Dakota; born ... near Batavia, Genesee County, N.Y., April 1, 1861; moved to the Territory of Dakota in 1882 ... Republican U.S. representative, 1899-1907 and 1909-1915) Wikipedia, August 21, 2018 (Charles Henry Burke (April 1, 1861 - April 7, 1944) was a Republican Congressman from South Dakota and Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the 1920s. He was born near Batavia, New York, in 1861, and attended the public school there. He moved to the Dakota Territory in 1882 and settled on a homestead in Beadle County of what is now South Dakota, moving on to Hughes County in 1883. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1886. He also engaged in the real estate investment business in the area of Pierre, South Dakota. He was elected to the South Dakota House of Representatives in 1895 and 1897. He ran for the United States House of Representatives in 1898, won election, and remained in that position through 1907, losing the nomination for the 1906 election, although he won again in 1908 and remained in the House through 1915, serving as Minority whip from 1913 through 1915. In 1914, he received the nomination for the United States Senate seat from South Dakota, and chose not to run for reelection to the House. He lost that Senate race. He was appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1921, and served in that capacity until his resignation in 1929. He died in 1944, in Washington, D. C.) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Burke> Regulations governing the sale of the unalloted tribal lands and vacant forfeited town lots, 1925: unnumbered page 4 (Chas. H. Burke, Commissioner of Indian Affairs) |
| Associated language | eng |
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