Burlington Irish Heritage Festival: Vince Feeney on James Edmund Burke
Submitted by bshatara on January 25, 2022 - 6:10pmDate:
03/13/2022 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm
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Almost forgotten today is James Edmund Burke, long time mayor of Burlington, sometime city representative to the state legislature, and one-time candidate for governor. When he died in 1942 at age 93, he was eulogized as a “city builder “and as the “Grand Old Man of the Democratic Party”.