Senator Burdick with Canadian Air Force Officers

Creator

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Identification #

OGL204-22

Description

Senator Quentin Burdick poses for a photograph with several officers from the Royal Canadian Air Force. From back of the photograph:

"From left: Colonel Archie M. Burke, Sector Commander; Squadron Leader J.A. Newbigin; Group Captain Elmer J. McLeod; Deputy NORAD Sector Commander and Squadron Leader R.G., Thorndycraft" Burdick is in the middle, shaking hands with Captain McLeod.

The son of Representative Usher Burdick, Quentin Burdick represented North Dakota in the United States House of Representatives from 1958 to 1960 and the United States Senate from 1960 until his death in 1992.

People Depicted

Quentin Burdick, Archie Burke, Elmer McLeod, J.A. Newbigin, R.G. Thorndycraft

Rights

Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota