John Holmes Burleigh (son of William Burleigh), was a Representative from Maine; born in South Berwick, October 9, 1822; he attended the local academy; became a sailor when sixteen years of age and commanded a ship on foreign voyages from 1846 until 1853 when he engaged in woolen manufacturing at South Berwick. He also engaged in banking; and was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1862, 1864, 1866, and again in 1872.
Burleigh was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1864; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877). He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-nomination in 1876.
Thereafter he resumed his former manufacturing pursuits. He died in South Berwick, December 5, 1877, with interment in the Portland Street Cemetery.
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