Thomas F. Burchill

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Thomas Francis Burchill (August 3, 1882 - March 26, 1955^[1]) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in New York City, he attended St. Francis Xavier High School there and Niagara University, from which he received an A.B. He was an auctioneer, appraiser, and was also interested in the insurance business in New York City after 1900.

Burchill was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1919 to 1924, and served in the State Senate from 1924 to 1938. He was appointed a member of the New York World's Fair Commission in 1938. He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth Congress, holding office from January 3, 1943 to January 3, 1945 and was not a candidate for renomination in 1944. He resumed his former business pursuits in New York City and was a consultant and alien property custodian. He died in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York in 1955; interment was in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla.

Preceded by Michael J. Kennedy

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 15th congressional district 1943–1945

Succeeded by Emanuel Celler

[edit] References

• Thomas F. Burchill at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress