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| Affiliation | Republican |
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1961-01-01 |
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| Name | Everett M. Dirksen |
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Pekin, Illinois , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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January 04, 1896
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| Died | September 07, 1969
(73 years)
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| Contributor | Wishful Thinking |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
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| Info | Grand Marshal of the Tournament of Roses Parade 1968.
(father-in-law of Howard Baker)
Representative and a Senator from Illinois; born in Pekin, Tazewell County, Ill., January 4, 1896; attended public schools and the University of Minnesota College of Law at Minneapolis; during the First World War served overseas as a private and later as a second lieutenant of Field Artillery 1918-1919; general manager of a dredging company 1922-1925; commissioner of finance of Pekin, Ill., 1927-1931; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1936 and commenced practice in Pekin, Ill.; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-third and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1949); chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Eightieth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1948; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1950; reelected in 1956, 1962, and again in 1968, and served from January 3, 1951, until his death in Washington, D.C., September 7, 1969; Republican whip 1957-1959; minority leader 1959-1969; chairman, Joint Committee on Inaugural Arrangements (Ninetieth Congress); interment in Glendale Memorial Gardens, Pekin, Ill.
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