John L. Burton

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John Lowell Burton (born December 15, 1932) was a California State Senator from 1997 until 2005. From 1998 until he was forced out of office by term limits in 2005, he served as the President pro tempore of the California State Senate. Prior to his time in the State Senate, he served in the California State Assembly from 1965 until 1974, and again from 1988 until 1997. He was originally elected to the Assembly to succeed his brother Phillip Burton, who had been elected to Congress. He was returned to the Assembly in a 1988 special election to succeed Art Agnos who had been elected Mayor of San Francisco. Burton also served in the U.S. House of Representatives, alongside his brother Phillip, from 1974 until 1982, when he resigned, citing addictions to cocaine and alcohol.

As a legislator, Burton was known for expanding the Cal Grant scholarship program, and passing a law (subsequently defeated in a referendum) which would have required California businesses to pay for health coverage for their workers. The magazine California Journal said about Burton's departure from the Senate in 2005: "Gone will be the Senate's most vehement partisan for social services for the poor, the Senate's angriest voice against tax breaks for businesses and the wealthy, its loudest voice for protection of workers, its fiercest pro-labor advocate and its disciplinarian." [1]

After leaving the Senate, Burton formed the John Burton Foundation, an organization that, according to its web site, is "dedicated to improving the quality of life for California’s homeless children and developing policy solutions to prevent homelessness."

Burton is a graduate of the University of San Francisco School of Law.

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