Francis Marion Burdick

Francis Marion Burdick LL.D. (1845–1920) was an American legal scholar.

Personal life Francis Marion Burdick was born at De Ruyter, New York on August 1, 1845. His parents were Albert G. Burdick and Eunetia Yale Wheeler Burdick.

On June 8, 1875, he married Sarah Underhill Kellogg, the daughter of Charles C. Kellogg, who founded a Utica lumber company.

Francis and Sarah were Presbyterians. They also had three daughters: Anna (1877–1960), Katherine (1879–1963), and Flora. The following year, after the death of the school's founder, Theodore Dwight, he became the first professor to hold the chair named after Dwight; he held it from December 5, 1892–June 30, 1916. Along with George W. Kirchwey, he retired from the faculty of Columbia Law School in 1916, each having completed 25 years. The Dwight Professorship then passed to Charles T. Terry, who held it until 1922.

From 1907 until his death, he was a Commissioner on Uniform Laws representing the State of New York.

He was a member of the Committee of Fourteen in New York City.

Works Besides contributing extensively to legal periodicals he published: Cases on Torts (1895) The Law of Sales (third edition, 1913) Cases on Sales (second edition, 1901) The Law of Torts (1905, second edition, 1908) Law of Partnership (second edition, 1906) The Essentials of Business Law (1908)