Everett Glen Burkhalter (January 19, 1897 – May 24, 1975)[1] was an American politician who became a member of the California State Assembly, the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. House of Representatives in the middle part of the 20th century.

[4] In 1946, he decided not to run for a fourth term and ran for Congress in the 20th District; he lost to Republican incumbent Carl Hinshaw.

Burkhalter made his first bid for local office in 1939, when he finished third in a field of four candidates for the Los Angeles City Council District 1 seat held by Jim Wilson.

After his second defeat in a congressional race, Burkhalter was elected to the City Council on his second attempt, in 1953, replacing Leland S. Warburton in District 1.

Burkhalter engaged in a war of words with officials at Kaiser Steel in Fontana when he accused the steelmakers of loosing a "stream of smoke from the plant .

He submitted a resolution urging that a Congressional committee study the problem of American movies' being made overseas.

Burkhalter announced he would start a fund to send "to Russia" protesters picketing a House Committee on Un-American Activities meeting in Los Angeles, "if they desired to go.

[12] In 1962, Burkhalter made his third try for a seat in the U.S. House--his second against Republican Edgar Hiestand, an ultraconservative member of the John Birch Society.

[3] Reportedly his experience in the state Assembly, where he found the lawmaking process much more efficient, caused him to become disgusted with the ways of the House.