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This cabinet card shows John Taylor Burris (1828- 1915). A lawyer from Iowa he migrates to the Kansas Territory in 1858 and settles in Olathe to practice law. As anti-slavery forces debated the future of the territory, Burris is chosen in 1859 as a delegate to the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention; he represents Johnson County. With the outbreak of the Civil War he serves as a sergeant in Jim Lane's Frontier Guard and then receives an appointment as U.S. district attorney in 1861. Burris resigns that position and mustered into the service as a lieutenant colonel in the Tenth Kansas Volunteer Infantry on July 24, 1861. At the close of the war he musters out of service, on August 1865, as a colonel. Burris resumes his career as a public servant. He is elected as a Republican to the Kansas House of Representatives serving the Thirty-Second District of Johnson County. In 1866, Burris is elected speaker of the House of Representatives and also serves as the president of the Republican State Convention in March 1868. From 1869-1901 he serves as a judge for the Tenth District court. He lived and worked in Olathe for a number of years but passed away while visiting family in Los Angeles, California on December 04, 1915.
Date: Between 1866 and 1890
Item Number: 457616
Call Number: B Burris, John *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 457616
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Judges
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Lawyers
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1861-1869
Date - 1870s
Date - 1880s
Date - 1890s
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Republican
Government and Politics - State Government - Legislature - House of Representatives
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Constitution Making - Wyandotte Constitution
Military - Wars - Civil War - Kansas Units - US Volunteers - 10th Kansas Volunteer Infantry
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Olathe
Places - Counties - Johnson
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Photographs
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