James A. Burke

A Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Boston, Mass. , March 30, 1910. Educated in the Boston public schools and Lincoln Preparatory School. Attended Suffolk University. Registrar of vital statistics for the city of Boston. During the Second World War was special agent in the Counter-intelligence, attached to the Seventy-seventh Infantry Division in the South Pacific. Member of the Massachusetts general court for ten years. Member of the Massachusetts house of representatives for four years, serving as assistant majority leader. Vice chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic State committee for four years. Elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1979). Was not a candidate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress. Was a resident of Milton, Mass. Until his death in Boston, Mass. On October 13, 1983. Interment at Milton Cemetery, Milton, Mass.