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Burke County, North Dakota
Burke County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
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Named: Created by the proclamation of Gov. John Burke, for whom it is
named, on July 12, 1910, after a contested election and extensive litigation
resulted in its separation from Ward County. State & County QuickFacts:
History
Created by the proclamation of Gov.
John Burke, for whom it is named, on July 12, 1910, after a contested election
and extensive litigation resulted in its separation from Ward County. Burke
(1859-1937) was a politically successful Democrat in an essential Republican
state who served three terms as Governor, 1907-1913, was Treasurer of the United
States in the Woodrow Wilson administration and ended his career as justice of
the state supreme court, 1924-37. Government organized: July 15, 1910. County
Seat: Bowbells, 1910-present.
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we’ve given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the “characteristic features of
our country!”
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn’t the only reason to explore counties’ role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today’s counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990’s political slogan “Think globally, act locally.” |
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Penn Foster High School
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