ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM Burhans, Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives 1949-65, discusses his years in the General Assembly: campaigning 1946 and 1948, Peoria County politics, legislative techniques, judicial legislation, Illinois political and judicial personalities, the press corps, and his judicial candidacy. He also recalls his youth in Peoria, Illinois, family, his father's medical practice, the Depression years, his education, attending the University of Michigan law school in 1935, and WWII experiences in the Navy.

12 tapes, 848 mins., 116 pp., plus index Interview by Cullom Davis, 1980 OPEN See collateral file: interviewer's notes, photographs, newsclippings, and correspondence from the president of the Chicago Bar Association.