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Senate Years of Service: 1992-1992 Party: Democrat
BURDICK, Jocelyn Birch, (wife of Quentin Northrup Burdick, daughter-in-law of Usher L. Burdick),
a Senator from North Dakota; born in Fargo, N. Dak., February 6,
1922; graduated from Fargo Central High School, 1939; attended Principia
College, Elsah, Ill., and graduated from Northwestern University in 1943;
worked as a radio announcer in Moorhead, Minn.; while a member of the North
Dakota Democratic Non-Partisan League, worked as a volunteer in the 1964, 1970,
1976, and 1982 Senate reelection campaigns of Quentin Northrup Burdick;
appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate on September 12, 1992, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Quentin Northrop Burdick;
took the oath of office on September 16, 1992, and served until December 14,
1992, a successor having been chosen in a special election; not a candidate for
reelection; is a resident of Fargo, N. Dak.
BibliographyJocelyn Birch Burdick, in
Women in Congress, 1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of
the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History &
Preservation, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 2006.
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