Harold H. Burton Papers 1911-1965

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Harold H. Burton Papers 1911-1965

Harold Hitz Buron (1888-1964) was a lawyer, World War I soldier, law professor, Ohio state congressman, law director of Cleveland, Acting City Manager, Acting Mayor, Mayor, United States Senator from Ohio, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The collection consists of correspondence, financial records, campaign literature, broadsides, reports, schedules, inventories, lists and newspaper clippings relating to Burton's personal life, his activities in various organizations, and his political activities, including his administration of Cleveland's municipal government, 1935-1940.

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Harold Hitz Burton (1888-1964) was born in Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts. His father, Alfred E. Burton, was a scientist and dean of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Burton entered Bowdoin College in 1905 and established an excellent record as a student and athlete. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1909 and enrolled in Harvard Law School, receiving his degree there in 1912. Burton first came to Cleveland, Ohio in 1911 while still a student at Harvard, ...