Ohio History Journal

THEODORE E. BURTON

 

Theodore E. Burton was born at Jefferson, Ohio, December

20, 1851; was graduated from Oberlin College in 1872; received

the degree of LL. D. from Oberlin and Dartmouth Colleges and

from New York University, Ohio University and other insti-

tutions; was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of

law in Cleveland in 1875; was elected to the National House of

Representatives and served through the fifty-first, fifty-fourth to

sixtieth, and sixty-sixth and sixty-eighth Congresses; reelected

to the sixty-ninth Congress by approximately sixty thousand

plurality; his entire service in the House extending over the fol-

lowing periods: 1889-1891, 1895-1909, 1921-   ; was United

States Senator 1909 to 1915; was appointed by President Roose-

velt Chairman of Inland Waterways Commission, 1907-1908, and

of the National Waterways Commission, created by Congress,

1908-1912; member of the National Monetary Commission;

member Executive Committee Interparliamentary Union, and

as such participated in meetings at St, Louis, London, Paris,

Geneva, The Hague, Vienna, Copenhagen, and Berne; ap-

pointed member of Debt Funding Commission by President

Harding, 1902; Chairman of the Delegation from the United

States to the Conference for the Control of International Traffic

in Arms, Geneva, 1925. He was a delegate to the Republican

National Conventions of 1904, 1908 and 1912, and received

unanimous support of the Ohio delegation for the presidential

nomination in the Republican National Convention of 1916. He

was president of the Merchants' National Bank of New York

City, January, 1917, to January, 191₉.  He was Lecturer at

Princeton in 1919, and at Rochester University in 1922.

He is a member of the following clubs: Union (Cleveland);

Metropolitan (Washington); Union League, Authors (New

York). He is author of the following: "Financial Crises and

Periods of Industrial and Commercial Depression"; "Life of John

Sherman"; "Corporations and the State"; "Some Political Ten-

dencies of the Times and the Effect of the War Thereon"; "The

Constitution, Its Origin and Distinctive Features".

He delivered the principal address at the Dedication of the

Memorial Wing of the Museum and Library Building of the

Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society. This address

is given in full on succeeding pages. Congressman Burton is

one of the most scholarly of Ohio's statesmen. He placed the

Society under lasting obligations when he consented to deliver

the dedicatory address.

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