Education
Born in Marshall, New York, Burchard attended the public schools and private preparatory schools. He was graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, in 1850. He studied law.
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- Production of Gold and Silver in the United States (Report of the Director of the Mint on precious Metals)
- REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE MINT Upon the Statistics of the Production of the Precious Metals in the United States.
- Production of Gold and Silver in the United States 1883, Or, Report of the Director of the Mint Upon the Production of the Precious Metals in the United States During the Calendar Year 1883
- Report of the Director of the Mint Upon the Production of the Precious Metals in the United States during the Calendar Year 1883
Horatio Chapin Burchard
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He was admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced practice in Freeport, Illinois. Burchard was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Elihu B. Washburne. He was reelected to the Forty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from December 6, 1869 to March 3, 1879.
Under his Chairmanship of the Subcommittee on Internal Revenue, the first legislation proposing a peacetime income tax was sponsored and debated.
However, no income tax legislation was successful passed during his Chairmanship. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1878.
He served as director of the United States Mint 1879-1885. During his tenure as the Director of the United States. Mint, he created the Consumer Price Index (Consumer price index), a measurement tool that has become ubiquitous in business and economics.
He resumed the practice of law in Freeport.
He was placed in charge of the jury of awards of the mining department of the World"s Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. He died in Freeport, and was interred in Oakland Cemetery.
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- Production of Gold and Silver in the United States (Report of the Director of the Mint on precious Metals)
- REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE MINT Upon the Statistics of the Production of the Precious Metals in the United States.
- Production of Gold and Silver in the United States 1883, Or, Report of the Director of the Mint Upon the Production of the Precious Metals in the United States During the Calendar Year 1883
- Report of the Director of the Mint Upon the Production of the Precious Metals in the United States during the Calendar Year 1883
Membership
He was a member of the Chi Psi Fraternity at Hamilton. He served as member of the Illinois House of Representatives 1863-1866. During his time in the United States. House of Representatives, he was appointed a member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee where he was made Chairman of the Subcommittee on Internal Revenue.
He served as member of the commission to revise the State revenue laws in 1885 and 1886.
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