Burdett, Samuel S
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 21, 1836, in England. In 1861 he entered the volunteer army as a private, and in 1864 was promoted to captain. He was a presidential elector in 1864 from Iowa; in 1865 emigrated to St. Clair county, Mo.; in 1866 was made circuit attorney for the seventh judicial district; and was a delegate to the Chicago convention of 1868. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-first congress; and in 1874 he was appointed commissioner of the general land office in Washington.