sentences:  He was a member of the State board of charities and corrections, 1901–1907, and a member of the State board of equalization in 1909 and 1910.Elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress in a special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Cyrus A. Sulloway, Burroughs was reelected to the two succeeding Congresses and served from (May 29, 1917 – January 27, 1923).He didn't run for reelection to the Sixty-eighth Congress in 1922, and died in office.