Burroughs Abbott (October 9, 1830 – December 6, 1905) was an American politician who served in the Minnesota House of Representatives and the South Dakota Senate.
[1][2] There, he married Angeline Ruggles, and worked as a farmer and teacher, before moving his family to Minnesota in 1856.
[1][3] He was elected to the state's House of Representatives, serving the sixteenth district from 1859 to 1860.
[1] Abbott moved to South Dakota in 1883,[3] and between 1891 and 1892 was a state senator from Brown County, district 33.
[2] Though state records in Minnesota and South Dakota do not list a party affiliation for Abbott,[1][2] George Washington Kingsbury writes that Abbot began his political career as a Republican and later joined the Populist Party.