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Quentin Burdick (Quentin Northrup Burdick) was born on 19 June, 1908 in Munich, North Dakota, U.S., is an American politician (1908–1992). Discover Quentin Burdick's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

Popular As Quentin Northrup Burdick
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Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 19 June, 1908
Birthday 19 June
Birthplace Munich, North Dakota, U.S.
Date of death 8 September, 1992
Died Place Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.
Nationality North Dakota

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Who Is Quentin Burdick's Wife?

His wife is Marietta Janecky (m. 1933-1958) Jocelyn Birch (m. 1960)

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Wife Marietta Janecky (m. 1933-1958) Jocelyn Birch (m. 1960)
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Children 5

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1908

Quentin Northrup Burdick (June 19, 1908 – September 8, 1992) was an American lawyer and politician.

1910

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.

1911

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.

1926

He attended local public schools, and graduated in 1926 from Williston High School, where he was class president and captain of the football team.

1931

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.

1932

In 1932, he received his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School and was admitted to the bar.

Burdick joined his father's law firm in Fargo, where he advised farmers who were threatened with foreclosure during the years of the Great Depression.

He later recalled, "I guess I acquired a social conscience during those bad days, and ever since I've had the desire to work toward bettering the living conditions of the people."

1933

In 1933, he married Marietta Janecky; the couple had one son and three daughters.

1934

As a candidate for the NPL, he unsuccessfully ran for attorney general in 1934 and 1940, state senator from Cass County in 1936, and lieutenant governor in 1942.

Burdick, who believed the NPL was dividing the state's progressive vote, began to advocate aligning the NPL with the Democratic Party.

1946

He subsequently ran for Governor of North Dakota in 1946 as a Democrat, but was again unsuccessful.

1948

He was a delegate for former Vice President Henry A. Wallace, who ran as a candidate of the Progressive Party, in the 1948 presidential election.

1953

He was the brother of Eugene Allan Burdick, who was judge of the Fifth Judicial District of North Dakota from 1953 to 1978.

1956

In 1956, the NPL aligned with the Democratic Party to create the North Dakota Democratic-Nonpartisan League Party.

That same year, Burdick suffered his sixth and final electoral defeat when he ran against Republican incumbent Milton Young for the U.S. Senate.

1958

She died in 1958.

Like his father, Burdick became active in politics and joined the Nonpartisan League (NPL), a populist-progressive group which was allied with the Republican Party.

In the spring of 1958, Usher Burdick, who worried about being defeated for re-election in the Republican primary, offered to withdraw his candidacy if the NPL agreed to support his son as the Democratic-NPL candidate for his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Quentin subsequently received the NPL endorsement in April, and was elected to North Dakota's At-large congressional district the following November.

He was the first Democrat-NPLer to be elected to the House of Representatives from North Dakota.

During his tenure in the House, Burdick served as a member of the House Interior Committee, where he promoted the Garrison Diversion Project to provide water from the Missouri River to North Dakota.

He received high ratings from organized labor and the Americans for Democratic Action.

An opponent of the Eisenhower administration's farm policies, in his maiden speech on the House floor, Burdick called for the resignation of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson.

1959

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 sister Rosemary was married to Robert W. Levering, who was a U.S. Representative from Ohio (1959–1961).

1960

After the death of Senator William Langer in November 1959, Burdick ran in a special election on June 28, 1960 to fill the remaining four and a half years of Langer's term.

His Republican opponent was Governor John E. Davis.

During the campaign, Burdick received strong support from the National Farmers Union.

He called for high price supports and strict production controls on grains with high surpluses.

His campaign slogan, "Beat Benson with Burdick", referred to Agriculture Secretary Benson, whose policies were unpopular with the state's wheat farmers.

Burdick narrowly defeated Davis by a margin of 1,118 votes.

Nine days after the election, the widower married Jocelyn Birch Peterson.

She had two children from a previous marriage.