Omar Truman Burleson was a U.S. Representative

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 from Texas

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Born in Anson

Anson, Texas

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, the seat of Jones County

Jones County, Texas

As of the census of 2000, there were 20,785 people, 6,140 households, and 4,525 families residing in the county. The population density was 22 people per square mile . There were 7,236 housing units at an average density of 8 per square mile...

, north of Abilene

Abilene, Texas

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, Texas, Burleson attended the public schools and Abilene Christian College and Hardin-Simmons University

Hardin-Simmons University

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, both in Abilene.

Burleson graduated in 1929 from Cumberland University

Cumberland University

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 in Lebanon

Lebanon, Tennessee

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, Tennessee

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 He was admitted to the bar

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 the same year and commenced practice in Gorman

Gorman, Texas

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 in Eastland County

Eastland County, Texas

*Carbon*Cisco*Desdemona, a ghost town*Eastland*Gorman*Mangum*Olden*Ranger*Rising Star*Romney-See also:*National Register of Historic Places listings in Eastland County, Texas*Santa Claus Bank Robbery-External links:** at the University of Texas*...

, Texas.
County attorney of Jones County, Texas

Jones County, Texas

As of the census of 2000, there were 20,785 people, 6,140 households, and 4,525 families residing in the county. The population density was 22 people per square mile . There were 7,236 housing units at an average density of 8 per square mile...

 from 1931 to 1934.

He served as Jones County judge from 1934 to 1940. He was a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

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 in 1940 and 1941. He was a secretary to U.S. Representative Sam Russell of Texas in 1941 and 1942 and general counsel for the Housing Authority in the District of Columbia in 1942.

He served in the United States Navy

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 from December 1942 to April 1946, with service in the South Pacific Theater.

Burleson was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Eightieth

80th United States Congress

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 Congress. He was reelected to the fifteen succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1947, until his resignation, December 31, 1978.

He served as chairman of the Committee on House Administration (Eighty-fourth

84th United States Congress

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 through Ninetieth

90th United States Congress

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 Congresses), Joint Committee on the Library (Eighty-fourth through Ninetieth Congresses), Joint Committee on Printing (Eighty-fourth Congress).

He was not a candidate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth

96th United States Congress

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 Congress and was succeeded by fellow Democrat Charles Stenholm

Charles Stenholm

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 of Stamford

Stamford, Texas

Stamford is a small city located on the border of Jones and Haskell counties in the western part of the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 3,111 in 2008. H. McHarg, president of the Texas Central Railroad, named the site in 1900 for his hometown in Connecticut...

, also in Jones County.

After his congressional years, he resided in Abilene until his death there on May 14, 1991. He is interred at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Anson.

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