Background
BURKE, Walter J. was born on October 20, 1866 in New Iberia, Louisiana, United States. Son of James Lee and Pamela (Cannon) Burke.
BURKE, Walter J. was born on October 20, 1866 in New Iberia, Louisiana, United States. Son of James Lee and Pamela (Cannon) Burke.
Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama. Tulane University. Bachelor of Laws.
Episcopalian Church.
Member, Constitutional Convention, 1898. State man and Emily F. (Sherman) Burdick. Education Harvard Law School, 1893-1894.
M. Elizabeth L. Peckham, of Newport, Rhode Island, February 9, 1898. Practiced at Newport since 1894. City Solicitor, two years.
Member, Rhode Island House of Representative, 190*6-08, Senate, 1915-1916. Mayor of Newport, 1917-1918. Member, 66-71 Congresses, from First Rhode Island Diet.
Republican Member; Mason, 32°. Club: Miantonomi (ex-president). Re6.: Newport, Rhode Island.
Spouse Bertha Perry, February 4, 1890, New Iberia, Louisiana.