![]() As the Australian Labor Party (ALP) candidate he was beaten by William McMahon, a future Prime Minister of Australia. At the beginning of 1951 he took up the position of Australian High Commissioner to Ceylon, but resigned to return home and contest the Federal election of that year in the electorate of Lowe. In 1947, aged 32, he became Secretary of the Department of External Affairs and held that position until June 1950. He joined the Department of External Affairs in 1941 and served as private secretary to Herbert Vere Evatt. In 1937 Burton became a member of the Commonwealth Public Service from where he was granted a Commonwealth scholarship to pursue a doctorate at the London School of Economics. ![]() He was educated at Newington College (1924–1932) and went on to graduate from the University of Sydney in 1937. ![]() Burton was born in Melbourne, the son of the Rev John Wear Burton, a Methodist Minister.
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