Background
Burke, Haslett Platt was born on April 28, 1874 in Monona County, Iowa, United States. Son of John Thomas and Clara Jane (Hardy) Burke.
Burke, Haslett Platt was born on April 28, 1874 in Monona County, Iowa, United States. Son of John Thomas and Clara Jane (Hardy) Burke.
Public schools, Harlan, Iowa.
Admitted to Iowa bar, 1896, and moved to Colorado same year. Clerk District Court, Logan County. Colorado, 1901-1903; district judge 13th Judicial District, 1907-1919.
Judge Supreme Court, Colorado, 1919-1939, chief justice, 1927, 37-38, reelected, 1938 for 10 year term, retired, 1949.
Lecturer on constitutional law Denver U. Law School, 1926-1933. Chairman board arbitration between Western railways and Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen.
1927. President board of trustees Clayton College for Orphan Boys, Denver, 1925-1929.
Chairman advisory board Denver Orphans’ Home. Tendered appointment as United States senator by Governor Carr, December 1941.
Served as corporal 12th Company, United States Volunteer Signal Corps, Spanish-American War. Member American, Colorado Bar Associations, Phi Alpha Delta, Acacia. Mason (33°, grand cross inspector general Colorado, grand master Colorado 1920-1921), Red Manitoba Many public addresses on legal and history subjects.
Married Rose M. Sanner, March 16, 1904.