Background
Burke, Edmund was born on August 8, 1876 in Buffalo, Illinois, United States. Son of Michael and Julia M. (Dalton) Burke.
Burke, Edmund was born on August 8, 1876 in Buffalo, Illinois, United States. Son of Michael and Julia M. (Dalton) Burke.
Student Quincy College, 1893-1895. Bachelor of Laws, University Michigan, 1898.
Admitted to Michigan, Illinois bar, 1898. Illinois states attorney, 1908-1916. Corporate Counsel, Springfield, Illinois, 1924-1927.
Member Gillespie, Burke & Gillespie, from 1927.
United States jury commissioner Southern District Illinois, from 1937. Special assistant United State Attorneys general and hearing officer conscientious objector cases, 1941.
Presidential elector, 1932, 48. Delegate Democratic National conversations, 1940, 44.
Member American, Illinois (senior counsellor 1948), Sangamon County bar associations.
Married Alice Trotter, October 7, 1902. Children: Mary B. (Mistress John B. McCarthy), Edmund, Alice M. (Mistress H. H. Bentley), Dorothy, Kevin (deceased).