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	Burton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baron Burton is a peerage title created in 1886 and 1887 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
		Burton is the name of a manufacturer of high quality golf bags.
		Burton is also the name of a menswear retailer in the UK (part of the Arcadia Group).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Burton,_Ontario (392 words)

	Visiting a legend - theage.com.au
		Burton was the pauper, the classical actor born into a working-class family in the southern Welsh coalfields.
		Burton was born Richard Jenkins in 1925, the 12th of 13 children in the mining village of Pontrhydyfen (pronounced Pont-reader-ven), near Swansea.
		Burton's niece took Henwood to her mother's home last year where "the walls of the miner's terrace were lined with photos of Burton and Taylor at the height of their fame", demonstrating in an incongruous way that Burton never lost his connection with his roots.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/06/03/1054406173580.html (1159 words)

	A Rage for Justice
		His accounts of Burton's legislative campaigns are as instructive as they are entertaining, shining such a penetrating light on the hopes, fears and foibles on the principal players that they would make wonderful theater, but only with Burton in the starring role.
		Burton was an unforgettable, uncontrollable figure whose relentless day-and-night politicking distilled the raw essence of American politics.
		Burton's failures were equally dramatic: in 1976, at the height of his power, he lost, by one vote, the chance to become House Majority Leader.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/6619.html (1258 words)

	George Moscone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Burton's brother, Phillip, a member of the California State Assembly recruited Moscone to run for an Assembly seat in 1960 as a Democrat.
		Moscone was quickly rising through the ranks of the California Democratic Party and became closely associated with a loose alliance of progressive politicians in San Francisco led by the Burton brothers.
		This alliance was known as the Burton Machine and included John Burton, Phillip Burton, and Assembly Speaker Willie Brown.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Moscone (1919 words)

	Journal of Political Ecology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		This political biography of the late Rep. Phillip Burton is a masterful study of how one man's political genius and passionate liberalism shaped history by producing landmark legislation in the areas of labor law, civil rights, welfare reform, and environmental protection.
		Burton's district "liberated him," Jacobs writes, because it did not constrain his votes and was "so supportive that it permitted Burton to devote his full attention to national and internal House politics" (p.
		Phillip Burton's death, Jacobs concludes, "marked the end of an epoch, the exhaustion of a major strain of American liberalism" (p.497).
	dizzy.library.arizona.edu /ej/jpe/volume_5/deleonvol5.htm (1273 words)

	News Article - Slack & Davis, L.L.P. www.slackdavis.com
		Burton, 60, who won two national awards for her service with the club and was a past president of the local chapter, was killed near Camden, Ala., as she returned from a speaking engagement about the youth organization in Natchez, Miss.
		Burton was found dead with her injured pilot Sunday morning after the crash of the small aircraft the day before in the woods of Wilcox County, authorities said.
		Burton retired from the Mobile firm when it was sold about three years ago, said her sister-in-law.
	www.slackdavis.com /news_article.php/news_id/argval/1631/argname/back_link/argval/index (807 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Burton, Philip (1915-1995)
		Philip Burton was a Seattle lawyer for more than 40 years, a voice for the disadvantaged, and a fighter for reforms to end discrimination in education, housing, and employment.
		Philip Burton was born in Topeka, Kansas, on October 28, 1915, to Dwight and Myrtle Burton, the second of nine children.
		Burton and his family moved to Bothell in 1955 in the belief that once people began to know each other, the housing problem would be resolved.
	www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=321 (627 words)

	Richard Burton
		Burton, the son of a Welsh miner and the 12th born of 13 children.
		Meanwhile, Phillip Burton's tuition work and patronage was rewarded when Richard won a scholarship to Oxford University at just 16; he adopted his teacher's surname and made his first stage performance at Oxford as an extra scrubbing steps.
		Burton was singled out for particular praise.The film maker Philip Dunne (who directed the actor in "The Robe") reported that he watched in awe while a 24 year old Richard Burton eclipsed Sir John Gielgud in a 1949 London performance of the play.
	www.welshwales.co.uk /burton.htm (1334 words)

	History of Burton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School was established in 1984 as a result of a Consent Decree between the City of San Francisco and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
		Burton has a Computer Science, Mathematics and Science focus, and each student is required to follow the rigorous curriculum of four (4) years of math, four (4) years of science, three (3) years of compuer science, and three (3) years of Foreign language (Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish or German).
		Burton also served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean conflict and was a delegate to Democratic National Convention from California in 1968.
	www.sfusd.edu /schwww/sch764/aboutburton.html (293 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Often clad in corduroys and a red sweater, Phillip Burton was becoming well-known in the fl churches.
		In the next row back, third from the right, is Democrat Phillip Burton, who was Brown's political mentor an d}{\b\cf1 would help him unseat Gaffney.\line }{\b\cf1 Photo courtesy Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.}{\b\cf1 \par }\pard \sb240\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\adjustright {In the days ahead, the protest escalated, with fls taking turns getting snubbed at the Forest Knolls development.
		Phillip Burton, is next to Brown with his arm outstreatched across the face of Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF1601/Richardson/Richardson.rtf (5258 words)

	sfweekly.com \| News \| The Last of the Burtons?
		Burton (she drops the "Cruz" in political appearances) is the only child of state Sen. John L. Burton and Michele Burton.
		And so Kimiko has come to Cathay House to carry on the family tradition of her father and her uncle, the late Congressman Phillip Burton, who founded the family's political dynasty in the late 1950s when he became the first politician to successfully tap the emerging electoral power of San Francisco's minority communities.
		In her standard stump speech, Burton speaks about her family's commitment to social justice, to peace, to civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, to boycotting grapes when grapes were evil, to the Democratic Party.
	www.sfweekly.com /issues/2002-02-06/feature_1.html (906 words)

	Floor Statement by Congresswoman Pelosi
		Burton's older brother, Phillip Burton, was a powerful U.S. representative and legendary political tactician who died in 1983.
		Burton was born in 1928 and lived much of his life in the same Sloat Boulevard house in which he was raised.
		Burton was a commissioner on the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board and a member of the City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees.
	www.house.gov /pelosi/flburton5-3-01.htm (747 words)

	Adachi beats Burton 'machine' / Veteran of public defender's office beats appointee who axed him (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Burton said of her loss: "I'm disappointed, but I'm going to live." She said she has no intention of resigning the job.
		Burton's father turned to Sacramento lobbyists, political committees and interest groups that often have business before the state Senate to raise more than $566,000 for his daughter's race.
		Burton worked as a public defender for four years before leaving for a short stint at the state Board of Equalization.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/03/06/SFDEFEND5S.TMP (784 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Wales \| South West Wales \| Should a Welshman play Burton?
		Burton's brother Graham Jenkins said he knew nothing of the new film but said Hopkins would be his preferred choice for the role.
		Burton biographer Paul Ferris agreed that being Welsh should not be prerequisite of the role.
		He said early on in Burton's life his mentor and schoolmaster Phillip Burton, whose surname he took, worked hard on refining his accent.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/3729887.stm (568 words)

	Willie Brown: The Play for Power (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Brown met John's older brother, Phillip Burton, who was elected to the Assembly in 1956 and was building a left-of-center Democratic organization challenging San Francisco's entrenched Democratic machine.
		Burton ran unsuccessfully for a state Senate seat in a 1967 special election and lost to Milton Marks, who still hold the seat.
		Burton and Brown were consigned to tiny, windowless offices and unimportant committee assignments.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF1601/Richardson/Richardson.html (4970 words)

	National Park Service: Biography (Congressman Phillip Burton)
		Phillip Burton was born in 1936, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
		Phillip Burton, at the age of 37, was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1964.
		As chairman of the Subcommittee on National Parks, Phil Burton set an unprecedented record for establishing and protecting parks, wilderness areas, trails, and wild and scenic rivers.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/sontag/burton.htm (412 words)

	BurtonCoast2Coast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Robert Burton is the son of Lieutenant Hutchins Burton and Tabitha Minge and the grandson of Nowell Burton.
		ROBERT H. Robert H. Burton (born 1781--died 1842) son of Colonel Robert Burton of Granville County, was long an honored citizen of Lincoln county; educated at the University of North Carolina and studied law.
		Alfred M. Burton (1747-1825), one of several sons of Robert and Agatha Burton of Granville County, N.C., attended the University of North Carolina, 1802, was licensed to practice law in North Carolina, 1807, and in Tennessee, 1808, and settled in Lincoln County, N.C., in the first decade of the 19th century.
	home.earthlink.net /~ezgolfer (5677 words)

	Richard Burton - Actor
		Richard Burton was a regal, commanding presence of the 60's cinema.
		Burton starred in several good British films in the late 1950s, including the acclaimed Look Back in Anger (1959), but his elevation to superstardom began with his casting as King Arthur in the Broadway musical "Camelot" in 1960 (which won him a Tony Award),
		During the making of the film, Burton and his costar Elizabeth Taylor carried on an affair, which led both to divorce their current mates (Sybil Williams) - and become headline material around the world.
	www.walesonline.com /trib_burton.php (629 words)

	Volume 1 #42 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Phillip Burton was a savvy ultraliberal from San Francisco.
		Elected in 1964, Burton was an early opponent of American military involvement in Viet Nam.
		Burton was severely shaken by the loss, and never really recovered.
	balderdashe.com /usapol/archives/vol1/V1-42.html (856 words)

	Boston.com / Boston Globe Magazine
		Phillip Burton hoped to be House speaker, but in 1976, he lost by one vote a contest for majority leader to Jim Wright of Texas.
		John Burton and Willie Brown were elected to the California Assembly in 1964 as committed liberals at the high tide of the Great Society.
		In 1973, Reagan called Burton "a nut" and added: "Sometimes I think Assemblyman Burton is the one man in Sacramento who has the most to fear from the squirrels in Capitol Park." Burton was fighting a Reagan-backed anti-spending ballot question.
	graphics.boston.com /globe/magazine/1-21/featurestory2.shtml (3288 words)

	John Burton's legacy: Unlikely legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Burton's mother, Mildred, worked 10-hour days as a legal secretary, attended daily Mass and took on a second job when her husband refused to help her buy a car.
		When he learned that dozens of abused women were in prison because they were convicted before "battered women's syndrome" was allowed as evidence, he wrote three laws that give them the power to argue their cases to parole boards and to the courts.
		Burton says he doesn't understand all the fuss at dozens of dinners in his honor and ceremonies this year about him being a man of his word.
	www.ocregister.com /ocr/2004/12/05/sections/news/news/article_333957.php (4006 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Burton
		Robert Burton; son of John Burton and Mary (Gordon) Burton; married to Sarah Jones.
		Brother-in-law of Sala Galant Burton; brother of Phillip Burton.
		Married to Phillip Burton; sister-in-law of John Lowell Burton.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/burton.html (994 words)

	Richard Burton / 100 Welsh Heroes / 100 Arwyr Cymru
		The name Burton came later, taken from the influential schoolmaster who would march him up the hillside and have him recite lines of Shakespeare above the howling wind.
		Phillip Burton’s efforts helped Richard win a scholarship to Oxford, from where his acting abilities propelled him onwards to the London stage.
		Like the poet, Burton’s “hellraising” image should never be allowed to detract from his greatness as an actor.
	www.100welshheroes.com /en/biography/richardburton (394 words)

	Burton, member of political clan, dies at 72 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Burton, the brother of state Senate President Pro Tem John Burton and the late U.S. Rep. Phillip Burton, died Sunday at a San Francisco hospital.
		The Burtons' political activism goes back at least to 1956, when Phillip Burton was elected to the state Assembly.
		John Burton won an Assembly seat in 1964, the year Phillip Burton moved on to Congress.
	www.insidevc.com /news/obituaries/370361.shtml (267 words)

	Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve: Administrative History (Chapter 4) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Representative Phillip Burton of California, the architect of the legislation, shepherded the omnibus bill through Congress so skillfully that one colleague likened his efforts to a "benevolent steam roller." [71] Among the amendments tacked onto Church's bill was Lloyd Meed's bill to establish Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve.
		Then Burton could say that Jackson was "ramming it down his throat" and that he had no choice but to include it in the omnibus bill.
		In fact Burton, as chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Parks, had sponsored Whalen's subsequent rise to the directorship of the NPS.
	www.nps.gov /ebla/adhi/adhi4i.htm (1164 words)

	In Print - September/October 1996 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club
		The man in question is Phillip Burton, the late San Francisco congressman who engineered the most sweeping national-parks laws in U.S. history.
		He was also a man of high principles and extraordinary intellectual powers and, until his death in 1983, among Congress' most fervent advocates for minorities, the poor, labor, and the environment.
		This is all the more remarkable since Burton was well along in his career before he took up the cause of conservation with the help of Sierra Club leaders like Dr. Edgar Wayburn (many of whom appear in the book).
	www.sierraclub.org /sierra/199609/inprint.asp (893 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		SHEILLA BURTON (ERNEST ROBERT, HENRY) was born September 1 at 9 The Holdings, Sutton Bridge, Lincs, and died in St Matthews, Sutton Bridge, Lincs.
		ERNEST HENRY BURTON (ERNEST ROBERT, HENRY1) was born December 6, 1900 in Wharfe St, Sutton Bridge, Lincs, England, and died August 20, 1944 in The Wash (Nr Boston, Lincs) (Drowned).
		EDNA CLARA BURTON (ERNEST ROBERT, HENRY) was born March 14, 1909 in Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire, England, and died December 1985 in Chichester, Hampshire, England.
	www.palacenut.co.uk /page18.html (395 words)

	Richard Burton
		Took stage name in gratitude to favourite teacher Phillip Burton.
		(Burton wanted to adopt him but a full adoption was not legally possible so he changed his name instead).
		John Wayne came to see him and offered him the Oscar he had won for "True Grit" saying that Burton deserved it more than he.
	www.britainunlimited.com /Biogs/Burton.htm (264 words)

	BBC NEWS \| In Pictures \| Picture tribute to actor Burton
		Burton was born in the small village of Pontrhydyfen where last year a new sign was unveiled commemorating the actor.
		Born Richard Walter Jenkins, the 12th of 13 children, he took the stage name Burton in honour of one of his teachers - Phillip Burton - who helped him win a scholarship to Oxford at the age of 16.
		The exhibition was complied by lifelong Burton fan Gerard Knowles and his son Ben and will be opened by the mayor of Neath Port Talbot Glyn Rawlings on Tuesday.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/in_pictures/4283491.stm (347 words)

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