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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
3Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of George
4Miller Burditt Jr. of LaGrange Park, former Illinois State
5Representative, who passed away on March 12, 2013; and
 
6    WHEREAS, George Burditt Jr. was born on Chicago's west
7side; he grew up in LaGrange and was valedictorian of the class
8of 1940 at Lyons Township High School; he played basketball and
9was later elected to the school's hall of fame and the Illinois
10Basketball Hall of Fame; he received a bachelor's degree from
11Harvard, where he was also on the basketball team, while
12serving in the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1944; after the war, he
13obtained his law degree from Harvard; he married Barbara
14Stenger in 1945; and
 
15    WHEREAS, George Burditt Jr. worked for Swift & Co. and in
161969 started the law firm of Burditt & Calkins, which focused
17on food and drug law; and
 
18    WHEREAS, George Burditt Jr. was an attorney, former
19president of the Chicago Bar Association, general counsel for
20the Food and Drug Law Institute, and a longtime adjunct
21professor in food and drug law at Northwestern University's law
22school from 1967-1997; and
 

 

 

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1    WHEREAS, George Burditt Jr. got involved in politics in the
21950s after moving to Western Springs; he was on the village
3plan commission, became a campaign manager for the Lyons
4Township Republican organization, and was vice-chairman of a
5group of Dwight Eisenhower supporters; he served as an Illinois
6State Representative in the 1960s and 1970s, serving 4 terms
7and achieving the level of assistant majority leader; after
8leaving the Illinois House of Representatives, he was appointed
9to the State ethics board and to the Illinois Liquor Control
10Commission; in March 1974, he was elected as Lyons Township GOP
11committeeman; and
 
12    WHEREAS, George Burditt Jr. was preceded in death by his
13first wife, Barbara, who died in 2001; and
 
14    WHEREAS, George Burditt Jr. is survived by his second wife,
15Mary Jane Mallery, whom he married in 2008; his daughters
16Barbara Perry, Betsey Blessing, and Deborah; his son, George M.
17III; his 11 grandchildren; and his 6 great-grandchildren;
18therefore, be it
 
19    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
20NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
21we mourn the passing of George Burditt Jr., and extend our
22sincere condolences to his family, friends, and all who knew

 

 

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1and loved him; and be it further
 
2    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
3presented to the family George Burditt Jr. as an expression of
4our deepest sympathy.