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Harold Hitz Burton (June 22, 1888 – October 28, 1964) was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 45th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, as a U.S. Senator from Ohio, and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was known as a dispassionate jurist who prized equal justice under the law. ==Biography== Harold was born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, the second son of Alfred E. Burton and Anna Gertrude Hitz. His younger brother was named Felix Arnold Burton. Harold's father was an engineer and the first Dean of Student Affairs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1902-1921), reporting to the president. He taught at MIT before being selected as dean. As a former explorer, Burton had accompanied Robert Peary on several expeditions to the North Pole.〔(Barbara Elleman, ''Virginia Lee Burton: A Life in Art'' ), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002, pp. 7-9〕 Harold's mother died young. In 1906, his father married Lena Yates, a poet and artist from England.〔("Virginia Lee Burton" ), Gloucester Lyceum & Sawyer Free Library〕 (She later took the name of Jeanne D'Orge.) They met that year on a walking trip in France. Yates published children's books as Lena Dalkeith. The couple had three children: Christine, Virginia (1909-1968), and Alexander Ross Burton.〔 The half siblings developed warm relationships over time. Virginia became an author and illustrator.〔 Burton attended Bowdoin College, where he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society,〔(Supreme Court Justices Who Are Phi Beta Kappa Members ), Phi Beta Kappa website, accessed Oct 4, 2009〕 was quarterback of the football team, and graduated ''summa cum laude''.〔(HAROLD HITZ BURTON: MAYOR, SENATOR, & SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ), accessed March 2, 2011.〕 His roommate and Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Theta chapter) brother was Owen Brewster, later a U.S. Senator from Maine. Burton went on to Harvard Law School, graduating in 1912. Felix Arnold Buton became an architect after also attending Bowdoin. The Burton brothers and J. Edgar Hoover were second cousins on their mothers' side. Their common great-grandparents were Johannes (Hans) Hitz, first Swiss Consul General to the United States, and his wife Anna Kohler. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harold Hitz Burton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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