Quentin N. Burdick

Infobox Senator | name=Quentin Northrup Burdick
nationality=American


jr/sr=United States Senator
state=North Dakota
party=Democratic
religion=Congregational church
term_start=August 8, 1960
term_end=September 8, 1992
preceded=C. Norman Brunsdale
succeeded=Jocelyn Burdick
date of birth=birth date|1908|6|19|mf=y
place of birth=Munich, North Dakota
dead=dead
date of death=death date and age|1992|9|8|1908|6|19|mf=y
place of death=Fargo, North Dakota
spouse=Jocelyn Burdick

Quentin Northrup Burdick (June 19 1908 – September 8 1992) was a United States Senator from North Dakota from August 8, 1960 until his death in 1992. Prior to that he had served in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1959 to August 8, 1960. He was the son of NPL North Dakota Congressman Usher L. Burdick.

Burdick received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Minnesota.

Like his father, Quentin Burdick was a member of the progressive Non-Partisan League, which placed its candidates on the Republican Party primary ballot until 1956, when the NPL aligned with the Democratic Party and became the Democratic-NPL.

Burdick became the chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in 1987.

After his death his widow Jocelyn Birch Burdick was appointed to fill his unexpired term until a special election.

At time of his death, Burdick was third longest-serving Senator among current members of this body, after Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd

ee also

*United States Senate special election in North Dakota, 1960
*United States Senate election in North Dakota, 1964
*United States Senate election in North Dakota, 1970
*United States Senate election in North Dakota, 1976
*United States Senate election in North Dakota, 1982
*United States Senate election in North Dakota, 1988

External links

* [http://www.library.und.edu/Collections/Burdick/og204p1.html Quentin Burdick Papers at The University of North Dakota]