Quentin Burdick
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Quentin Northrup Burdick was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party, he represented North Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
Official portrait, c. 1975
Burdick with President John F. Kennedy in 1961
Jocelyn Burdick
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Jocelyn Louise Burdick was an American politician from North Dakota who briefly served as a member of the United States Senate in 1992. She was the first woman from the state to hold this office. At t
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…unpopular with the state's wheat farmers. Burdick narrowly defeated Davis by a margin of 1,118 votes. Nine days after the election, the widower married Jocelyn Birch Peterson. She had two children from a previous marriage. Together the couple had one son, Gage, who died on May 23, 1978, at the age of 16 after receiving a…
Jocelyn Birch Burdick