Eugene A. Burdick

Eugene Allan Burdick (October 15, 1912 – November 3, 2000) was a judge in North Dakota's Fifth Judicial District[1] and a surrogate judge of the North Dakota Supreme Court.[2] He was on the bench from 1953 until he retired in 1978.

Burdick at retirement
Gene at 30

Life
Gene with Indians

Burdick was born to Usher L. Burdick and Emma C. Robertson Burdick. He graduated from the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota School of Law.

Eugene Allan Burdick was born in a log cabin just east of Williston, North Dakota to North Dakota lawyer, rancher, author and politician Usher L. Burdick and Emma C. Robertson Burdick.[3] Burdick's birthplace served as the Little Muddy Post Office in Dakota Territory in the 1880s. Burdick had an older brother, Quentin Northrup Burdick, who served 32 years in the U.S. Senate, and a younger sister, Eileen Burdick Levering. The three followed in their father's footsteps, each graduating from law school.

Burdick grew up in Williston, graduating from Williston High School in 1929 at the age of 16, and entering the University of Minnesota Law School that fall. The summers of 1930 and 1931, he travelled with his father trading buckskins and beads with Sioux Indians in exchange for articles of finished beadwork. The extensive Burdick Collection and photos he took are now housed at the North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum.[4][5]

Career

Burdick was admitted to the Bar of North Dakota in 1935, and practiced law at Williston from 1935–1953, the last six of those years serving as Williams County State's Attorney.[6] On June 1, 1953, he was appointed Fifth Judicial District Judge by Gov. C. Norman Brunsdale for the unexpired term of Judge McGee. Burdick was elected to the bench in 1954, and reelected in 1960, 1966 and 1972. After retiring in 1978, he continued serving as a Surrogate Judge of the North Dakota Supreme Court until his death. Burdick served 41 years as commissioner on the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws,[7] and as its president from 1971–73. He was chairman of the NCCUSL Style Committee for 24 years. He was a member of the American Bar Association, American Judicature Society, American Law Institute, Institute of Judicial Administration, National Conference of State Trial Judges, National Council of Juvenile Court Judges, State Bar Association of North Dakota (President 1951-52),[8] Order of the Coif, Phi Alpha Delta and Sigma Nu fraternity

Personal life, family

On Feb. 14, 1939, Valentine's Day, Burdick married Emma May Picard. Three children were born to the marriage, a daughter, Cynthia, who died in infancy; a son, William Eugene Burdick; and a daughter, Elizabeth Burdick Cantarine. The Burdick marriage lasted 61 years until his death on Nov. 3, 2000, in Sarasota, Florida, where they lived in retirement. Mrs. Burdick died in 2003.

gollark: In a market, if people don't want kale that much, the kale company will probably not have much money and will not be able to buy all the available fertilizer.
gollark: You can just hand out what some random people think is absolutely *needed* first, then stick the rest of everything up for public use, but that won't work either! Someone has to decide on the "needed", so you get into a planned-economy sort of situation, and otherwise... what happens when, say, the community kale farm decides they want all the remaining fertilizer, even when people don't want *that* much kale?
gollark: Planned economies, or effectively-planned-by-lots-of-voting economies, will have to implement this themselves by having everyone somehow decide where all the hundred million things need to go - and that's not even factoring in the different ways to make each thing, or the issues of logistics.
gollark: Market systems can make this work pretty well - you can sell things and use them to buy other things, and ultimately it's driven by what consumers are interested in buying.
gollark: Consider: in our modern economy, there are probably around (order of magnitude) a hundred million different sorts of thing people or organizations might need.

References
  1. "A History of North Dakota's District Judges". www.ndcourts.gov.
  2. "Eugene A. Burdick, Surrogate Judge". www.ndcourts.gov.
  3. "Eugene A. Burdick Papers, 1927-1985, 2003 | Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections". apps.library.und.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-26.
  4. North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum Yutō'keca = Transitions : the Burdick Collection. State Historical Society of North Dakota. 1987. OCLC 844200702.
  5. "00106 - Family/Local History - Photographs - Archives Holdings - Archives - State Historical Society of North Dakota". history.nd.gov.
  6. "Eugene A. Burdick, Surrogate Judge". www.ndcourts.gov. Retrieved 2018-08-26.
  7. http://www.uniformlaws.org/Search.aspx?cx=014921086760789645719:at7aeght8rg&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=burdick%20president&sa=Search
  8. "Past Presidents - State Bar Association of North Dakota". www.sband.org.
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