Washington, Oct. 28.
Senator Theodore E. Burton of Ohio died here to-day from the effects of an attack of influenza which he contracted about a month. ago.
He suffered a relapse yesterday. after convalescing to a point which will be at Cleveland, the} Into Senator's home city.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the British Prime Minister, at once dispatched a message through the British Embassy upon learning the news. In this message, the Premier Paid high tribute to the late Senator Burton's efforts toward world poxce.
The late Senator Burton was born at Jefferson, Ohio, on December 20, 1851.
He graduated from Oberlin College in 1872 and conimeneed the practice of law in Cleveland in 1875, being elected to the House of Representatives in 1888 and serving' in the Fifty-first and Fifty-fourth to Sixtieth Congresses. He later went to the Senate and served in the Sixty-seventh to Seventieth Congresses, subsequently jolected to the Senate for the unexpired term ending Mareh.3, 1933.
Among his public services were membership in the National Monetary Commission, chairmanship of Roosevelt's Inland Waterways Com-' mission; member of the executive committee and executive council of [the Interparliamentary Union, member of Harding's Debt Funding' Commission; chairman of the delegation from the United States to the Conference for Control of International Traffic in Arms in Geneva in 1925.—United Press.
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