| − | James Burnham was born in Chicago, Illinois, on November 22, 1905.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T1yOAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT186&lpg=PT186|last1=Burhnam|first1=James|title=American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia|date=2014|publisher=Open Road Media|pages=186-190}}</ref> | + | James Burnham was born in Chicago, Illinois, on November 22, 1905,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T1yOAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT186&lpg=PT186|last1=Burhnam|first1=James|title=American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia|date=2014|publisher=Open Road Media|pages=186-190}}</ref> his parents were Claude George Burnham and Mary May (Gillis) Burnham.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_fICTJuP1_IC&pg=PA1 How Great the Triumph: James Burnham, Anticommunism, and the Conservative Movement]</ref> His father was a prominent executive with the Burlington Railroad Company.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=wCBEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA160 Herringshaw's American Blue-book of Biography: Prominent Americans of 1914 - An Accurate Biographical Record of Prominent Citizens in All Walks of Life]</ref> |