Helen E. Burbank

[2] During World War I, Burbank was the personal assistant for the Vermont director of the United States Employment Service.

[2] After the war, she was employed at a Montpelier insurance agency, and then returned to the Vermont Commissioner of Industries's office as a stenographer.

[6] Ernest W. Gibson Jr., then serving as Governor of Vermont, requested that Burbank continue the functions of the secretary's office while remaining as deputy; she agreed.

[7] Burbank spent several weeks in the hospital at the end of 1947 and beginning of 1948,[8][9] and declined to be a candidate for Secretary of State in the 1948 election.

[14] Burbank was mentioned as a candidate for Secretary of State in 1966;[15] she remained active in Republican politics as a local and county committee member and delegate to party conventions, but made no effort to run.