member of the North Dakota House of Representatives
What position did Usher L. Burdick take between Jan 1910 and May 1910?
Usher L . Burdick Usher Lloyd Burdick ( February 21 , 1879 – August 19 , 1960 ) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from North Dakota . He was the father of Quentin Burdick . Early life and career . Burdick was born in Owatonna , Minnesota , the son of Lucy ( Farnum ) and Ozias Perry Warren Burdick . His parents were farmers . Burdick moved with his parents to Dakota Territory in 1882 . He graduated from the North Dakota State Normal School at Mayville in 1900 . He was deputy superintendent of schools of Benson County from 1900 to 1902 . He graduated from University of Minnesota Law School in 1904 , playing football as well as teaching school in a business college while attending the university . He was admitted to the state bar in 1904 and commenced practice in Munich , North Dakota . Politics . He served as a member of the North Dakota House of Representatives from 1907 to 1911 , serving as speaker in 1909 . He moved to Williston in 1907 and continued the practice of law . He was the eighth Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota from 1911 to 1913 , states attorney of Williams County from 1913 to 1915 , and served as assistant United States district attorney for North Dakota from 1929 to 1932 . Burdick also engaged in livestock breeding and farming and was an author . In 1932 , Burdick was elected president of the Farmers Holiday Association , an association which advocated strikes for farmers , and which took radical direct action against farm foreclosures . Burdick was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination to the 73rd Congress in 1932 , in which he favored Franklin D . Roosevelt to be elected president and the repeal of Prohibition . Burdick was elected as a Republican to the 74th Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses ( January 3 , 1935January 3 , 1945 ) . While in Congress he supported many New Deal programs . He also was supportive of Native American issues . He was not a candidate for renomination in 1944 , but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for United States Senator for North Dakota . He was an unsuccessful Independent candidate for election in 1944 to the 79th Congress . Burdick was elected to the 81st Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses ( January 3 , 1949January 3 , 1959 ) . He was the only Republican congressional representative to vote against the Communist Control Act which banned the Communist party . In 1958 , afraid that he might be defeated for re-election in the Republican primary , Burdick offered to withdraw his candidacy if the Democratic-NPL Party agreed to support his son Quentin as the party candidate . Quentin then received the party endorsement in April , and won the election in November . Burdick voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 . Death . On August 19 , 1960 Burdick died at age 81 in Washington , D.C . and was interred on his ranch at Williston , North Dakota .