Andrew Horace Burke (May 15, 1850 – November 17, 1918) was an American politician who was the second governor of North Dakota from 1891 to 1893.

[2] As a boy, Burke sold newspapers in the city[3] before he was adopted in 1858 by a family of farmers near Noblesville, Indiana.

He enlisted as a drummer boy at the age of 12 with an Indiana regiment on July 17, 1862, in the American Civil War.

In 1880, after marrying Caroline Cleveland,[4] he moved to Casselton, North Dakota and became a general store bookkeeper.

[2][5] He returned to private life and after an unsuccessful stint in the grain business in Minnesota,[5] he became an inspector with the United States General Land Office, subsequently living in Washington, DC; Colorado; and New Mexico.