Title	Theodore Burton portrait
Subject	Presidents--Election Other--Federal Government Cleveland (Ohio) Oberlin College Politicians
Time Period	1910s
Place	Cleveland (Ohio) Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Description	Theodore Burton (1851-1929) was born in Jefferson, Ohio, on December 20, 1851, and graduated from Oberlin College in 1872. He began his political career in 1889 after being elected as a Representative and years later as a Senator from Ohio. Throughout his life he had interrupted spells in the US House of Representative and Senate. In 1916, he was a candidate for Republican nomination for president. In 1922, President Warren G. Harding appointed Burton to represent the United States at the World War Debt Funding Commission, and Burton served as the head of the American delegation at the Geneva Conference in 1925. He died in Washington, DC, on October 28, 1929.
Date of Original	ca. 1910-1919
Collection	Theodore Burton Collection
Source	SC 2263
Format	Picture Black-and-white photographs
Submitting Institution	Ohio History Connection
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	AL04089.tif
Image Height	1522
Image Width	1522
File Size	10570460 Bytes
Date created	2011-08-04

Theodore Burton portrait

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