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Class Year
1921
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Clyde Orbin Burton, LL.B.
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Phi Alpha Delta; Assistant Editor, Kentucky Law Journal.
“The elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up And say to the world, ‘This is a man.’”
-The Kentuckian, 1921
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Clyde Orbin Burton (August 29, 1893 - August 26, 1936) was born in Warren County, Kentucky to James Robert Burton and Julia Richardson. Burton practiced law in Lexington after receiving his LL.B.. Burton was elected as a Lexington police judge in 1929. He was re-elected for a second term in 1933. Burton died during this second term.