Other KC ministers Lewis interviewed included Burris Jenkins, Earl Blackman, I. M. Hargett, Bert Fiske, and Robert Nelson Horatio Spencer ( 1877-1961 ), who was Rector of a large Episcopal parish, Grace and Holy Trinity Church, which is now the Cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri.

The town was founded by Oscar and Charles Burris in 1923.

* The television show Petticoat Junction was based on the Burris Hotel that existed in this small railroad town in the midwest.

In June 1952, the county attorney Jack Burris was assassinated at his home near Salina in one of the most famous unsolved murders in Oklahoma history.

Also, Kurt Burris, a center for the Oklahoma Sooners football team, was a runner-up for the award in 1954 and Orlando Pace finished fourth in 1996 as an offensive tackle for Ohio State.

On December 30, 2008, Governor Rod Blagojevich announced his appointment of Roland Burris, a former African-American Attorney General of Illinois ; Rush was present at the press conference and spoke in support of Burris.

Her opponent in 2000 was Republican John M. Burris, who had barely survived a bitter September primary contest with retired judge William Swain Lee.

Burris, divorced with an 18-year-old son, was nine years her senior.

She used to tell him stories of her childhood adventures when she was visiting the Burris Hotel, owned by her family, in Eldon, Missouri.

His mother was Elizabeth Burris Wood.

She was considered a likely nominee for appointment to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by Barack Obama's election to the Presidency of the United States ; however, Roland Burris was appointed instead.

In 2007, Smith signed a two-year contract with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League, where he was expected to compete for the starting quarterback position with another former NFL player, Henry Burris.

Petticoat Junction was based on the Burris Hotel that existed in Eldon, Missouri.

" Roland Burris was appointed to the U. S. Senate instead.

* Roland Burris: Given on January 9, 2009, for his efforts to retain his seat, which was appointed controversially by Rod Blagojevich.

Three congressmen are currently out of office since the 2010 report was published ; Sen. Burris ( D-IL ) chose not to run again, Rep. Mollohan ( D-WV ) was defeated and Sen. Ensign ( R-NV ) resigned.

Despite having the endorsement of the party's Black Caucus, he was passed over for the position, in favor of Illinois Comptroller Roland Burris.

Burris Jenkins own motto was to live dangerously, to rebuild his church in Kansas City after a fire.

At around 9: 15 a. m. EST on April 19, 2007, Andrew Burris of Curtice, Ohio, a member of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Local 1138, died when the construction platform he was on became detached and fell from the bridge.

The platform was anchored to the northbound side of the bridge, and broke off, falling about 95 feet to the ground, where the platform, still carrying Burris, landed on the east side of the roadway.

Burris was from a line of carpenters, and kept a scrapbook of the project.

* Sean Martinez-Mayor from July 2003 to June 2005, appointed when Burris resigned, re-elected in 2004, resigned

Four African Americans have served in the Senate since the 1940s: Edward W. Brooke, a Republican from Massachusetts ; and Carol Moseley Braun, Barack Obama, and Roland Burris ( appointed to a vacancy ) – all Democrats from Illinois.

Instead, Blagojevich appointed Roland W. Burris.

On February 20, 2009, Quinn called for the resignation of US Senator Roland Burris, the man appointed to the United States Senate by Blagojevich to fill the vacant seat created by the resignation of Barack Obama.

Roland Burris, the U. S. Senator appointed by Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, constructed a family tomb at in the Oak Woods cemetery, in preparation for his and his wife's eventual interment.

Privately made recordings of Nance's first concert date, at Fargo, North Dakota, on November 7, 1940 by Jack Towers and Dick Burris, are probably the most effective display of the band during this period.

On July 20, 2009, Kirk announced his candidacy for the U. S. Senate election for the seat held by Roland Burris, which had been held by Barack Obama before his election as president.

But attorneys Jason W. Sapsin, Stephen P. Teret ; Scott Burris, Julie Samia Mair, James G. Hodge Jr, Jon S. Vernick and Gostin wrote in an article in the August 2002 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Assn., that " Provided those powers are bounded by legal safeguards, individuals should be required to yield some of their autonomy, liberty, or property to protect the health and security of the community.

In July 2010 the White House announced a major change in its HIV / AIDS policy, a change informed by public health law research carried out by Scott Burris, professor of law at Temple University and the director of the Public Health Law Research program.

The administration strategy credits " The case against criminalization of HIV transmission ", a piece by Burris and Edwin Cameron, a South African judge, in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2008.

* Logic for Mathematics and Computer Science by Stanley N. Burris.

Four years later, in 1994, she won an upset victory in the Democratic primary for Illinois governor, beating Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris and Cook County Board President Richard Phelan, winning by more than 10 points ahead of Burris.

The Court further ruled that White had fulfilled his legal obligations regarding the appointment of Burris to the U. S. Senate by registering the appointment in accordance with state law.

The coherences of the whole enterprise is justified by Boole in what Stanley Burris has later called the " rule of 0s and 1s ", which justifies the claim that uninterpretable terms cannot be the ultimate result of equational manipulations from meaningful starting formulae ( Burris 2000 ).

The tomb has received considerable publicity ( generally negative ) since Burris ' appointment by the indicted governor.

Trained by Pat Burris, 2 time Judo Olympian and Olympic Judo Coach, Tripp's fight career in judo lasted from 1982 to 1995.

Burris then filed a lawsuit against White with the Illinois Supreme Court to compel him to certify the appointment as part of his routine administrative duties.

On January 12, the U. S. Senate officially seated Burris as Illinois ’ junior senator.

These note that Burris was the first African-American to be Attorney General of Illinois, the first African-American exchange student from Southern Illinois University to the University of Hamburg, Germany, and the first non-CPA to be on the board of the Illinois CPA Society.

Spence endorsed Burris, the eventual Republican nominee, who went on to lose the general election to then Lieutenant Governor Ruth Ann Minner.