Andrew Horace Burke (15 May 1850-17 November 1918) was the Republican Governor of North Dakota from 7 January 1891 to 3 January 1893, succeeding John Miller and preceding Eli C.D. Shortridge.
Biography[]
Andrew Horace Burke was born in New York City, New York in 1850, and he was orphaned at the age of four and adopted by a family of farmers in Noblesville, Indiana. He served as a Union Army drummer boy during the American Civil War before becoming a general store bookkeeper in Casselton, North Dakota and a bank cashier. Burke came to serve as treasurer of Cass County for six years and as Governor from 1891 to 1893, and he lost the support of the state's farmers by backing railroad interests over their employees. He later became a US Land Office inspector and moved to Washington DC, Colorado, and New Mexico, dying in Roswell in 1918.