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Notables in the Limelight Profiles Burton Harrison and Col Thomas Birch
Burton Harrison, longtime New York congressman and former secretary to Jefferson Davis era, serves a fifth term as congressman and shapes tariff policy while a junior minister to Portugal, Col Thomas Birch, youngest son of James Birch, is named minister plenipotentiary to Portugal after service on President Wilson’s staff. Harrison, born in New York City in 1873, studied law at Yale and NYU, fought in the Spanish War, and rose to leadership in tariff matters. Birch, a Burlington manufacturer’s son, declined a prior portfolio before accepting the diplomatic post.
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