Burke, James L
lawyer, legislator, was born March 24, 1850, in Gordon county, Ga. In 1872 he was a member of the educational examining board of Gadsden, Ala.; deputy clerk of circuit court in 1874 and the same year established the Etowah Shield. In 1876 he was admitted to the bar at Guntersville, Ala., of which city he has been twice mayor. In 1884- 85 he represented Marshall county in the general assembly of Alabama; and in 1896 received the democratic nomination for state senator. He was a soldier in the confederate army; the youngest member of the nineteenth regiment Alabama infantry; and was wounded at Chickamauga before he was fourteen years old.