sentences:  Burdick was elected to the 81st Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949January 3, 1959).He was the only Republican congressional representative to vote against the Communist Control Act which banned the Communist party.In 1958, afraid that he might be defeated for re-election in the Republican primary, Burdick offered to withdraw his candidacy if the Democratic-NPL Party agreed to support his son Quentin as the party candidate.