district succeeded predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place jr/sr party term_end preceded birth_date term_start image article_title state name
2nd charles f. mclaughlin richard c. hunter hugh a. butler 4 november 1968 bon homme county , south dakota kensington , maryland united states senator democratic january 3 , 1941 january 3 , 1935 h. malcolm baldrige 28 november 1880 january 3 , 1935 march 4 , 1933 burke , edward raymond , . jpg edward r. burke
 nebraska nebraska edward raymond burke
edward r. burke

edward raymond burke -lrb- november 28 , 1880november 4 , 1968 -rrb- was a nebraska democratic party politician .
burke moved to sparta , wisconsin with his parents and then beloit , wisconsin where he went to beloit college .
burke graduated in 1906 , moved to chadron , nebraska where he taught school until 1908 .
he graduated from harvard law school and was admitted to the bar in 1911 .
afterwards , he set up shop in omaha , nebraska .
during the world war i he enlisted and served as a second lieutenant in the air service from 1917 to 1919 .
he served as the president of the board of education for omaha from 1927 to 1930 .
he was elected to the seventy-third congress from nebraska in 1933 and then ran for senator from in 1934 .
serving from january 3 , 1935 , to january 3 , 1941 , he chaired the u.s. senate committee on claims .
he failed to be renominated for the seat in 1940 , losing the democratic primary to governor robert l. cochran , who then lost the general election to hugh a. butler -lsb- http://www.ourcampaigns.com/racedetail.html?raceid=549962] .
he resumed his law practice in omaha in 1941 and moved to washington , d.c. in 1942 to serve as president of the southern coal producers association until 1947 .
he was a washington representative and general counsel for hawaiian statehood commission until 1950 , when he retired to kensington , maryland .
he died in 1968 , and was interred in fort lincoln mausoleum .
