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Committee on Constitution and Laws. At the 1899 N.F.C., she led the Great Hive delegation. Although she was at that time an eloquent and forcible speaker, there is no information to the effect that she took any active part in the discussions; it appears she was still the student-observer. Burns went home from the 1901 N.F.C. determined to place her society upon a safe and permanent basis. She realized that she must first ascertain what such a basis was. That would take time. She found herself and her society involved in a snarl which had grown out of the differences arising between the Supreme Tent and the Great Camp of Michigan.
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Congress by a close vote. She was the first woman ever elected to the office. Following the society's common practice, she should have been elected president the following year, but she was not. In 1920, the American Fraternal Congress was organized. The L.O.T.M. affiliated with it, Burns was elected vice-president, and the next year, she was elected president. Thus, she became the first woman executive of an American fraternal congress that was national in its scope.
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Burns was a regular attendant of the N.F.C. for more than 25 years, missing perhaps only one session in all that time. For several years, she was
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English and English composition. She was fond of home talent theatricals and usually
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Washington, D.C., attending the burial of America's Unknown Soldier, she suffered a serious nervous breakdown.
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in the joint meetings of the conference committees and joined in the report submitted to the
Congress. At the 1906 session, she served as Chair of the Committee on Conference. She took a fairly active part in the 1908 and 1909 sessions.
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