Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1906 — BURTON RESIGNS HIS TOGA [ARTICLE]

BURTON RESIGNS HIS TOGA

Convicted Kansas Senator Does Not Wait for Expulsion—F. D. Coburn Is His Successor. Topeka, Kan., June s.—After a conference here with several close friends United States Senator Joseph R. Burton placed his resignation in the hands of Governor Hoch. As has been his custom since charges of irregularities were brought against him, Burton declined to talk for publication before going into the conference. Topeka. Kan., June 5. Foster Dwight Coburn,the widely-known agriculturist, has been appointed United States senator by Governor Hoch to succeed J. Ralph Burton. Coburn has not definitely accepted the appointment. Coburn was not a candidate for the appointment, nor has he been a candidate for the election to the senate seat to be filled by the legislature next year. Coburn was horn in Jefferson county. Wis., in 1846. He served in two Illinois regiments during the civil war, and settled in Kansas in 1867. He has served for the past sixteen years as secretary of the Kansas state board of agriculture.