52 Facts About Dan Burton

Danny Lee Burton was born on June 21,1938 and is an American politician.

Dan Burton is a member of the Republican Party and was part of the Tea Party Caucus.

Dan Burton's mother remarried, and Dan Burton and his younger brother and sister had happier teenage years.

Dan Burton worked as a caddy at a local country club in order to make ends meet, where he learned the golf skills that led to his winning a statewide golf championship in high school.

Dan Burton graduated from Shortridge High School in 1957, and attended Indiana University and the Cincinnati Bible Seminary.

Dan Burton served in the United States Army from 1956 to 1957, before leaving active duty to return to college but remained in the Army Reserves from 1957 to 1962.

Dan Burton was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives from 1967 to 1968 and again from 1977 to 1980 and the Indiana State Senate from 1969 to 1970 and again from 1981 to 1982.

Dan Burton first ran for Congress in 1970, losing to Democratic incumbent Andy Jacobs in Indiana's 11th congressional district.

Dan Burton ran again in 1972, losing in the Republican primary to William Hudnut.

Dan Burton's district was renumbered as the 5th District after the 2000 census.

In 2008, Dan Burton faced a reasonably well-funded challenger in the Republican primary for the first time since his initial run for the seat in former Marion County Coroner John McGoff.

Dan Burton defeated State Representative Luke Messer, McGoff, State Representative Mike Murphy, Brose McVey, Andy Lyons, and Ann Adcock.

Dan Burton only carried a majority in one county : Huntington.

In 2012, Dan Burton was due to face a number of challengers in the Republican primary including McGoff, former US Attorney Susan Brooks, former US Congressman David McIntosh, and attorney Jack Lugar.

In 1995, Dan Burton authored legislation targeting foreign companies that did business with Cuba.

Dan Burton was a consistently conservative vote in the US House.

Dan Burton has an A rating with the Gun Owners of America.

Dan Burton has received a number of awards from conservative groups, including a Friend of the Farm Bureau Award in 2004 from the American Farm Bureau Federation, a True Blue Award in 2006 the Family Research Council, eight Guardian of Small Business Awards from the National Federation of Independent Business and twenty-two Spirit of Enterprise Awards from the US Chamber of Commerce.

Dan Burton was the primary sponsor for a 1998 effort, opposed by the Clinton administration, to require federal government agencies to do more strategic planning, establish more accountability measurements, and do more reporting on their performance.

Dan Burton served as chairman of the Republican Study Committee, a caucus of conservative House Republicans, during the 101st Congress.

Congressman Dan Burton is a founding member and co-chair of Pakistan Caucus in House of Congress.

Dan Burton has received at least $10,000 in campaign donations from Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, who runs the Kashmir Center, a pro-Pakistan advocacy group.

Dan Burton was the chief supporter in Congress of the Kashmiri American Council, until it was revealed to be a front of Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate engaging in illegal lobbying activities on US soil.

Dan Burton has been noted for his vocal support of Bahrain's monarchy and criticism of protesters during the Bahraini uprising.

Dan Burton is listed as Chairman on the organization's web site as well.

In October 2015, it was reported that Dan Burton registered as a lobbyist on behalf of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, an organization established by the Church of Scientology.

In July 2011, Dan Burton was revealed by an FBI investigation to have received tainted election funds ultimately traced to the military intelligence services of Pakistan, apparently as a quid pro quo for "supporting to Pakistan's position on Kashmir".

Dan Burton led the House inquiry into the 1993 death of Vince Foster, the deputy White House counsel to President Bill Clinton who committed suicide, but who Dan Burton believed was murdered.

Dan Burton urged extensive investigation into the possible involvement of the Clintons and gained attention for re-enacting the alleged crime in his backyard with his own pistol and a cantaloupe standing in for Foster's head.

In 1990, The New York Times reported that in 1989, Burton had been a "celebrity player" at the Bob Hope Classic in Palm Springs, California, the Kemper Open in Potomac, Maryland, the Larry Bird Golf Classic in Indianapolis, the Danny Thompson Memorial Tournament in Sun Valley, Idaho, the Sugarloaf Invitational tournament in Maine and the Arte Johnson Tournament in Chicago.

Three weeks earlier, Dan Burton had become the chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, which had jurisdiction over the legislative agency scheduled to soon award at least $5 billion in long-distance and local telephone and telecommunications contracts with the federal government.

Dan Burton defended his participation in the tournament, saying it would not affect his objectivity when dealing with telecommunications issues.

Dan Burton said that he had partially paid for the trip, with his re-election campaign funds paying as well because he attended three fund-raising events while in California.

In February 2007, a review by The Indianapolis Star of votes in the House of Representatives for the past decade showed that Dan Burton had missed all votes during the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic golf tournament for five years between 2001 and 2007.

Since 2004, Dan Burton has played in a guest spot of the Eisenhower Medical Center, the primary charitable beneficiary of the event.

The slot carries with it a commitment to donate $10,000 to the event; Dan Burton has made arrangements with the hospital to do this over a period of time.

The Indianapolis Star review found that in 2006, Dan Burton ranked last in voting among members of Congress from Indiana, missing 11 percent of the 541 recorded votes.

In 1997, Dan Burton headed an investigation into possible Democratic Party campaign finance abuse, focusing on the 1996 presidential election.

In March 1997, as the investigation began, Dan Burton was accused of demanding a $5,000 contribution from a Pakistani lobbyist.

The lobbyist said that when he was unable to raise the funds, Dan Burton complained to the Pakistani ambassador and threatened to make sure "none of his friends or colleagues" would meet with the lobbyist or his associates.

In May 1998, Dan Burton apologized for releasing edited transcripts of prison audiotapes of Webster Hubbell, a former associate of President Bill Clinton.

Dan Burton was harshly criticized by members of his own party, including Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who called the investigation a "circus" and chided Dan Burton for initially refusing to admit any error.

In President Clinton's final year in office, Dan Burton was mentioned in a short film for the White House Correspondent's Dinner.

Dan Burton has been an outspoken critic of what he terms the failure of government to determine the cause of an alleged autism epidemic.

Dan Burton was instrumental in pressuring the National Institutes of Health to launch a five-year, $30 million study of chelation therapy for cardiovascular disease.

Dan Burton maintained a page on his Congressional website called House.

On October 2,1989, Representative Dan Burton took to the floor of the house to argue against the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Dan Burton died in 2002 from breast and colon cancer.

Dan Burton was the internist who cared for Burton's wife during her cancer treatment.

Three years later in 1998, the magazine Vanity Fair was to print an article detailing an affair which Dan Burton himself had in 1983 which had produced a child.

Dan Burton's brother, Woody Dan Burton, is a former Republican member of the Indiana House of Representatives, representing District 58.

Dan Burton is a member of the board of advisors of the Institute on Religion and Public Policy.