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Harold Hitz Burton (June 22, 1888 - October 28, 1964) was an American Senator and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was known as a dispassionate jurist, one who epitomized equal justice under the law.He was born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, to Alfred Burton and Gertrude Hitz. His father was a Dean at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was also an explorer. He had accompanied Robert Peary on several expeditions to the North Pole. His mother was a daughter of the first Swiss Consul General to the United States.
Burton attended Bowdoin College, where his roommate was Owen Brewster, who later became a Senator from Maine. He went on to Harvard Law School, graduating in 1912. After graduating he practiced in Ohio. He was a Lieutenant in the infantry during World War I and saw heavy action in France.
Burton served in the Ohio House of Representatives in 1929 and was elected Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio in 1935, running as a Republican. He served until election as United States Senator in 1941. It was in the Senate where he first met fellow senator Harry S. Truman. Burton resigned from the Senate when he was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1945 by later President Truman, to succeed Justice Owen J. Roberts. He served until he retired on October 13, 1958. He suffered from Parkinson's disease in his later years. He died from complications arising from this, kidney failure and pulmonary trouble.
Burton married Selma Florence Smith in 1912. They had four children: Barbara (Mrs. Charles Weidner), William, Deborah (Mrs. Wallace Adler), and Robert.
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| Preceded by: A. Vic Donahey | U.S. Senators from Ohio | Succeeded by: James W. Huffman |
| Preceded by: Owen Josephus Roberts | Associate Justice | Succeeded by: Potter Stewart |
| Preceded by: Harry L. Davis | Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio 1936-1940 | Succeeded by: Edward Blythin |
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