Background
William Burton was born on October 16, 1789 and was the son of John Burton, farmer in Sussex County, Delaware, and of Mary (Vaughan) Burton.
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William Burton was born on October 16, 1789 and was the son of John Burton, farmer in Sussex County, Delaware, and of Mary (Vaughan) Burton.
After receiving an elementary training William Burton studied medicine in the office of Dr. Sudler in Milford, Delaware, and at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated with the degree of M. D.
After beginning his profession in Lewes, Delaware, he soon removed to Milford, where he built up a good practise, living on a farm near the town. Here he delighted in dispensing a gracious hospitality and enjoyed a wide circle of friends.
Burton served his state the full constitutional term of four years, retiring in January 1863 in favor of William Cannon, the candidate of the Union party Although Delaware was a slave state and the Breckinridge Democrats had carried it in 1860, the state administration proved loyal to the Union, while at the same time it endeavored to conciliate those elements of the population who were strongly opposed to the war.
Delaware's answer to Mississippi's invitation to join the Southern Confederacy was an "unqualified disapproval. " On the other hand, Delaware sent five delegates to the Peace Convention in the following month of February, and a large peace meeting was permitted to assemble in Dover in June of the same year.
When Lincoln called upon Delaware for its first quota of troops in April, however, Burton complied immediately by issuing a proclamation calling for volunteers (there being no state militia to order into the Federal service), and by his subsequent measures acted in harmony with the Federal authorities except on occasions when he felt that the Federal power was encroaching too much upon the rights of Delaware, e. g. , when making what he, and the Democrats in general, regarded as illegal arrests.
The so-called invasion of the state by Federal troops at the general election in November 1862 and the consequent victory of the Lincoln candidate for governor brought forth from Burton in his last message to the legislature in January 1863 severe strictures upon the methods of the Union party.
Burton died in Milford and is buried there at the Christ Episcopal Churchyard.
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Active in state politics, first as a Whig, he was elected sheriff of Kent County in 1830. In 1848, like so many other Whigs, he joined the Democratic party, and in 1854 was nominated for the office of governor of the state, but was defeated by the candidate of the Know-Nothing party, Peter F. Causey. Nominated again for the governorship in 1858 he defeated the candidate of the People's party and was inaugurated on January 18, 1859. A Democratic legislature was likewise elected.
He was married twice, his first wife being Mrs. Eliza Wolcott, daughter of William Sorden of Kent County, his second, Ann C. Hill, daughter of Robert and Rhoda (Davis) Hill.