Burke, Thomas Aloysius
Born: Oct 30, 1898 AD
Died: 1971 AD, at 73 years of age.
Nationality:
American
Categories:
Politician
1898 - Born on October 30th in Cleveland, Ohio. American politician.
1920 - He received his B.A. from Holy Cross College.
1923 - Earned his LL.B. from Western Reserve University School of Law.
- Burke married Josephine Lyon and had 2 daughters.
1930-1936 - He was assistant county prosecutor.
1937 - The state attorney general appointed him special counsel to prosecute vote fraud.
1941 - Became Cleveland law director under Mayor Frank Lausche.
1945 - Elected mayor of Cleveland when Lausche became governor and served 4 terms.
- He presided over a large capital-improvement program, including a lakefront airport built on landfill, the first downtown airport in the country.
1951 - He campaigned for a charter amendment passed giving the mayor power to appoint and dismiss the police chief, and helped establish a free municipal parking lot adjacent to the shoreway.
1953 - Lausche appointed Burke to fill Taft's Senate seat.
1964 - He married Evelyn Sedgwick.
- He retired from politics but continued practicing law as senior partner in the law firm Burke, Haber & Berwick.
1971 - Died on December 5th.
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