Given the question: Facts: - death place: lincoln , nebraska - jr/sr: united states senator - preceded: jesse b. strode - successor: gilbert hitchcock - party: republican - death date: 23 may 1935 - predecessor: charles h. dietrich - district: 1st - term end: march 4 , 1911 march 3 , 1905 - succeeded: ernest m. pollard - term start: march 4 , 1905 march 4 , 1899 - state: nebraska nebraska - name: elmer jacob burkett - birth date: 1 december 1867 - image: elmer jacob burkett cph.3b05710.jpg - birth place: glenwood , iowa Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of elmer burkett .
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elmer jacob burkett -lrb- december 1 , 1867may 23 , 1935 -rrb- was a representative and a senator from nebraska .burkett was born on a farm near glenwood , iowa .he attended the public schools and graduated from tabor college in 1890 and from the university of nebraska -- lincoln college of law in 1893 .he served as principal of the leigh , nebraska , public schools from 1890 -- 1892 ; he was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice in lincoln , nebraska .burkett was a trustee of tabor college from 1895-1905 .he was a member of the nebraska house of representatives 1896-1898 .burkett was elected as a republican to the fifty-sixth , fifty-seventh , and fifty-eighth congresses -lrb- march 4 , 1899 -- march 4 , 1905 -rrb- ; he was reelected to the fifty-ninth congress , but resigned , effective march 4 , 1905 , to become a senator .he was elected as a republican to the united states senate and served from march 4 , 1905 , to march 4 , 1911 .during his term , he served as the chairman of the committee on indian depredations -lrb- fifty-ninth congress -rrb- and on the committee on pacific railroads -lrb- fifty-ninth through sixty-first congresses -rrb- .burkett was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1910 .he then resumed the practice of law in lincoln ; he declined the candidacy for governor of nebraska in 1912 , and was also an unsuccessful candidate for the vice presidential nomination in 1912 after the death of incumbent james s. sherman .he died in lincoln on may 23 , 1935 , and was interred in wyuka cemetery .