“North Dakota Senator” Quentin Burdick Hand Signed 3X5 Card Todd Mueller COA

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“North Dakota Senator” Quentin Burdick Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Quentin Northrup Burdick
(June 19, 1908 – September 8, 1992) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the
North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party
, he represented
North Dakota
in the
U.S. House of Representatives
(1959–1960) and the
U.S. Senate
(1960–1992). At the time of his death, he was the third longest-serving senator (after
Strom Thurmond
and
Robert Byrd
) among current members of the Senate. Quentin Burdick was born in
Munich
,
North Dakota
, as the oldest of three children of
Usher Lloyd Burdick
and Emma Cecelia Robertson. His father was a
Republican
politician who served as
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota
(1911–1913) and a
U.S. Representative
(1935–1959). His mother was the daughter of the first white settler in the area of North Dakota that lies west of
Park River
. He was the brother of Eugene Allan Burdick, who was judge of the Fifth Judicial District of North Dakota from 1953 to 1978. His sister Rosemary was married to
Robert W. Levering
, who was a U.S. Representative from
Ohio
(1959–1961). In 1910, Burdick moved with his family to
Williston
, where his father engaged in farming and practiced law. As a child, he enjoyed breaking wild ponies on his father's ranch
He attended local public schools, and graduated in 1926 from
Williston High School
, where he was class president and captain of the football team. Burdick had his undergraduate studies at the
University of Minnesota
, receiving a
Bachelor of Arts
degree in 1931 During college, he played on the football team as a blocking back for
Bronko Nagurski
, and was president of the
Sigma Nu
fraternity. He suffered a knee injury in football that disqualified him from military service in
World War II
. In 1932, he received his law degree from the
University of Minnesota Law School
and was admitted to the bar.