Theodore Weld Burdick

Theodore Weld Burdick (October 7, 1836 - July 16, 1898) was a U.S. Representative from Iowa.

Born in Evansburg, Pennsylvania, Burdick attended the common schools.He moved with his parents to Decorah, Iowa, in 1853 and engaged in banking. Deputy treasurer and recorder of Winneshiek County 1854-1857. Treasurer and recorder from 1858 to 1862, when he resigned to recruit a company for the Union Army.He was commissioned as captain and assigned to the Sixth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, in which he served for three years in the Department of the Northwest. After the regiment was mustered out in 1865 he returned to Decorah and became cashier of the First National Bank.

Burdick was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879).He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1878.He resumed banking at Decorah, Iowa, and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.He served as member of the State senate in 1886 and 1887.He died in Decorah, Iowa, July 16, 1898.He was interred in Phelps Cemetery.

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