James F. Burke

James Francis Burke was Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania.

James Burke was born in Petroleum Center, Pennsylvania in 1867. He studied law at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where he graduated 1892. While at Michigan he organized the American Republican College League, the predecessor to the College Republicans. Petitioning then president, Republican William McKinley Burke won approval for the organization and hosted an inigural banquet attended by McKinley along with 1,500 college students The organization quickly spread to almost every college in the country. In 1888 at age 21, Burke was made secretary of the committee in charge of the dedication of the thennew Allegheny County Court House, at which President Rutherford B. Hays made the dedicating address.

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