The Hooven-Owens-Rentschler Company tool works, a major Hamilton, Ohio employer, from 1918 to 1923. He then became secretary-treasurer of the Fort Hamilton Automobile agency for three years. He was a special representative at Hamilton for Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company for the remainder of his life. Raymond H. Burke was one of the fifteen members elected to a charter commission in November 1925 to write a new city charter for Hamilton. The commission proposed the council-manager form of government and the charter was adopted in 1926. In 1927, Burke was elected to Hamilton city council and reelected for a total of seven terms through 1942. He served as mayor of Hamilton the first twelve of those years. Raymond H. Burke was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1942, serving one four-year term, after which he was elected as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress. He served on the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. A month after the House was organized, all twelve members of the committee were off to inspect the Panama Canal, concerned that aircraft carriers were now too wide to pass through the Canal. He also served as chairman of the subcommittee on conservation and wildlife resources. Burke was defeated in his reelection attempt in 1948. He returned to Hamilton and was a lecturer in the finance department of Miami University in 1949 and 1950. Burke was a Rotarian and a Mason. He was also active in the YMCA and local Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He was director of a Presbyterian church choir from 1915 until his death. Burke died in Hamilton in 1954 and was interred in Greenwood Cemetery. Notes Sources Ohio: a four-volume reference library on the history of a great state. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1937, 2520 pgs. Blount, Jim. "Raymond Burke composed Miami songs." Hamilton Journal-News, September 14, 1992. Blount, Jim. "Raymond H. Burke also political success." Hamilton Journal-News, September 21, 1992. External links Miami University Men's Glee Club (Wikipedia page) Miami University Men's Glee Club (official website) 1881 births 1954 deaths Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio Oberlin College alumni University of Chicago alumni Miami University faculty People from Clermont County, Ohio Republican Party Ohio state senators 20th-century American politicians People from Hamilton, Ohio