Anson Burlingame
Date of Birth : Nov 14, 1820
Date of Death : Feb 23, 1870
Anson Burlingame was an American lawyer, legislator, and diplomat, born in New Berlin, Chenango County, New York. In 1823 his parents took him to Ohio, and about ten years afterwards to Michigan. Between 1838 and 1841 he studied at the Detroit branch of the University of Michigan, and in 1846 graduated from Harvard Law School. On June 3, 1847 he married Jane Cornelia Livermore. They had sons Edward Livermore Burlingame and Walter Angell Burlingame, as well as a daughter Gertrude Burlingame.