HR0711 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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HOUSE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of Representatives wish to congratulate Orville Vernon Burton on the occasion of winning the Heartland Prize for Non-Fiction for his book "The Age of Lincoln"; and

WHEREAS, Orville Vernon Burton is a professor of history and sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a widely respected author of such books as "In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina", published in 1985, and "Computing in the Social Sciences and Humanities", published in 2002; and

WHEREAS, Orville Vernon Burton's award-winning book "The Age of Lincoln" is an examination of Abraham Lincoln's influence in the creation of a new concept of personal freedom in the United States during the 19th Century; and

WHEREAS, Orville Vernon Burton has won many accolades from a wide array of scholars for his book "The Age of Lincoln"; such scholars include Lincoln biographer David Herbert Donald, who has stated that Burton "shows how Lincoln's ideas, so essential for Northern victory in the war, affected the way Americans defined themselves in the postwar generation"; and

WHEREAS, Orville Vernon Burton will receive The Heartland Prize for Non-Fiction on Sunday, November 4 at a ceremony during the Chicago Humanities Festival; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we congratulate Orville Vernon Burton on the occasion of winning the Heartland Prize for Non-Fiction and wish him continued success and happiness in the future; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to Orville Vernon Burton as a symbol of our esteem and respect.