Talk:Phillip Burton

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This article was started using public domain data from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress located at http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001156. LarryQ 17:43, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Can this possibly be correct? .......... I copy two paragraphs from the current Wikipedia entry about Phillip Burton.

He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio; attended Washington High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and graduated from George Washington High School in the Richmond District of San Francisco in 1944. He earned a B.A. from the University of Southern California in 1947 and an LL.B. from Golden Gate College School of Law in 1952. He worked as a lawyer and was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court in 1956.

Burton was a member of the United States Air Force during both World War II and the Korean War. He was a member of the California state assembly, 1956-1964. He represented the United States at the Atlantic Treaty Association Conference in France, 1959. He was a delegate to the California State Democratic convention, 1968-1982. He was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 1968 and 1970. He was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative John F. Shelley, and reelected to the ten succeeding Congresses (February 18, 1964 - April 10, 1983).

Thus, he graduated from high school in 1944, served in the U.S. Air Force during WWII (which ended in August 1945) and got his bachelor's degree from USC in 1947. Perhaps all of this is accurate, and he simply was a very busy young man. And perhaps the war era and immediate postwar era tended to condense such experiences.

I don't know. It just sounded weird when I read it.

Furthermore, I don't think the U.S. Air Force existed as such during WWII. I think it was then a part of the army and known as the U.S. Army Air Corps.

This is the first time I've done this and hope I've done it right. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.234.105.153 (talk • contribs).