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Burton, Charles Germman

soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, born April 4, 1846, in Cleveland, Ohio. He enlisted as a private in company C, nineteenth Ohio infantry, and was a corporal in company A, one hundred and seventyfirst Ohio National guards, during the one hundred days' campaign of 1864. He moved to Nevada, Mo., in 1871; has been circuit attorney and judge of the twenty-fifth circuit; was a delegate to the national republican convention at Chicago in 1884; and was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican. In 1893 he was department commander of Missouri G. A. R.