. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . rn themoney necessary forthe other half. Hetook up the study oflaw immediatelyupon his graduation,in the office of JudgeHammond, then citysolicitor of Cam-bridge, and in thesame year enteredthe Harvard I. a wSchool. On April19, 1873, he was ad-mitted to the bar inMiddlesex County,and during the fol-lowing year practisedwith Judge Ham-mond. In 1874 hemoved to he now lives,and in the followingyear opened an oiificein Boston, where hisgreat indus
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . rn themoney necessary forthe other half. Hetook up the study oflaw immediatelyupon his graduation,in the office of JudgeHammond, then citysolicitor of Cam-bridge, and in thesame year enteredthe Harvard I. a wSchool. On April19, 1873, he was ad-mitted to the bar inMiddlesex County,and during the fol-lowing year practisedwith Judge Ham-mond. In 1874 hemoved to he now lives,and in the followingyear opened an oiificein Boston, where hisgreat industry andintegrity soon builtup for him a lucra-tive practice. For more than fifteen years he has been a member of theHingham School Board, and its chairman for more thanten years. In public affairs Mr. Burdett has alwaystaken an active interest, and this has led him severaltimes into public office. Hull and Hingham, in 1S84,sent him to the lower branch of the General Court, andin that term of service he was chairman of the Com-mittee on Public Service. He reported a civil servicebill which, largely through his earnest and intelligent. JOSEPH 0. BURDETT labor, became the law of the State, it being most per-sistently fought at every stage of its progress towardpassage. In the following year he was re-elected, andwhile retaining his position as chairman of the PublicSer\ice Committee, he was also a member of the Judi-ciary Committee. In the more important tlebates inthe House that year he was prominent. In 1886 was made a member of the Republican StateCentral Committee, and in that body he showed a political shrewdnessand capacity for or-ganization and ef-fective work whichwon deserved recog-nition. When thecommittee was reor-ganized, in 1889, hewas u n a n i m o u s 1)elected chairman,and remained in thatposition three years,serving with fidelityand energy. Thenext year his growingbusiness called himaway from the sceneof active politics, andhe again devotedhimself to th
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