Charles+H.+Burritt


 * Charles H. Burritt **


 * Democrat**** • Johnson County **
 * Member of the Constitutional Convention 1889 **

Charles Henry Burritt was born on February 15, 1854 in Manchester Depot, Vermont. After graduating from Brown University and the Detroit Law School, he started practicing law in Michigan in 1876. Two years later, he moved to Wyoming, where he worked for George B. Dunham, a stockman, on Horse Creek. He served as Mayor of Buffalo from 1881-1897. In 1883 he joined the law of office of Stephen Downey for a short period until he moved to Buffalo where he established his own practice. He was active in political and social circles, serving in the Wyoming House of Representatives in 1890 and from 1897 to 1899 and the Wyoming Constitutional Convention. During the Spanish-American War he enlisted with the First Wyoming Volunteers and later joined the 11th US Cavalry. After the war, he remained in the Philippines as chief of the United States Mining Bureau and judge of the Court of the First Instance for central northern Luzon Provinces. He resigned in 1907, returned to the United States and settled in Reno, Nevada, where he opened a law office. Burritt died in Reno on June 1, 1927.

=Additional Resources=
 * "Hon. Charles Henry Burritt," Find A Grave memorial (accessed June 2015)
 * Charles H. Burritt Correspondence, Box 1, Johnson County War collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
 * "Dictation from Charles H. Burritt," Hubert Howe Bancroft, 1885, UC Berkley Libraries.