1970's Florida Congressman J. HERBERT BURKE Button

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J. HERBERT BURKE FOR CONGRESS Buttons
The condition of the buttons are nice showing
minimal
signs of age and some discoloration on the back.
They are from the 1970's
He was admitted to the bar in 1940 and practiced in Chicago from 1940 to 1949, and in Hollywood, Florida, from 1949 to 1968. In 1952, Burke was elected Republican commissioner in Broward County and served in that capacity until 1967. He was a Republican State committeeman from 1954 to 1958. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Eighty-fourth Congress in a special election held on January 11, 1955, losing to Democrat Paul Rogers.
Burke served as delegate to Republican National Conventions in 1968, 1972, and 1976. In 1968, he was a member of the Republican Platform Committee. In 1956, he was appointed by the U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the Southeastern Advisory Board of Small Business.
Burke was elected to the Ninetieth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1979). Burke voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1968.
On May 27, 1978, Burke was arrested at the Centerfold Bar in Dania, Florida, on charges of disorderly intoxication and resisting arrest. Burke claimed he had come to the club in an attempt to prevent a narcotics deal. He later pleaded guilty to the charges and nolo contendere to an additional charge of witness tampering and sentenced to three months of probation and a 7.50 fine.
The incident later became the basis for the novel Strip Tease, which was made into a film starring Burt Reynolds and Demi Moore.
Despite the arrest, Burke ran for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress. He lost in a landslide to Democrat Edward J. Stack.
After leaving Congress, he resided in Falls Church, Virginia, and Fern Park, Florida, until his death in 1993 in Altamonte Springs, Florida.
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