BURTON, Sala Galante, (wife of Phillip Burton),
a Representative from California; born Sala Galante in Bialystock,
Poland, April 1, 1925; attended public schools in San Francisco and San
Francisco University, San Francisco, Calif.; associate director, California
Public Affairs Institute, 1948-1950; vice president, California Democratic
Council, 1951-1954; president, San Francisco Democratic Womens Forum,
1957-1959; delegate to Democratic National Conventions, 1956, 1976, 1980, and
1984; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth Congress by special election
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, United States
Representative Phillip Burton; reelected to the two succeeding Congresses (June
21, 1983-February 1, 1987); died on February 1, 1987, in Washington, D.C.;
interment in the Presidio of San Francisco.