Biography

05/15/1893 - 03/25/1954

BURRIS, John William Milton, a Representative from Juniata County; born in Mexico, Juniata County, Pa., May 15, 1893; attended, Juniata public schools; telegrapher, Pennsylvania Railroad (11 years); operator, life and casualty insurance agency; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to serve the 1939 term; reelected to serve the following term; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House for the 1943 term; died, March 25, 1954; interred, Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery, Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pennsylvania.