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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, State Representative Monique D. Davis and the |
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| members of the Illinois House of Representatives are saddened |
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| to learn of the death of R. Eugene Pincham of Chicago, who |
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| passed away on April 3, 2008; and
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| WHEREAS, R. Eugene Pincham was born in Chicago on June 28, |
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| 1925 and grew up in Alabama; he graduated from high school in |
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| 1942 and later attended LeMoyne College in Memphis; he |
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| transferred to Tennessee State University in 1944 and earned a |
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| bachelor's degree in political science in 1947; and
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| WHEREAS, He married Alzata C. Henry in 1948 and enrolled in |
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| Northwestern University School of Law that same year; he worked |
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| his way through school by waiting on tables at the Palmer House |
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| Hotel and shining shoes; he earned his law degree in 1951; and
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| WHEREAS, He practiced law for the next 25 years; he was a |
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| brilliant criminal defense lawyer and a hero in Chicago's black |
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| neighborhoods; and
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| WHEREAS, He served as both a Cook County judge and Illinois |
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| Appellate Court justice; he became a Circuit Court judge in |
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| 1976 and was assigned to the Criminal Division, where he served |
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| until 1984; he then became an Appellate Court justice and |
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| resigned in 1989; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1989 he unsuccessfully sought the Democratic |
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| Party nomination for president of the Cook County Board of |
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| Commissioners; he was the nominee for mayor of Chicago in the |
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| Harold Washington Party in 1991; he lost the election but |
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| carried 19 of the 50 city wards; and
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| WHEREAS, After his retirement, Judge Pincham continued to |
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| practice law; he also lectured at Harvard University, |
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| Northwestern, DePaul, Notre Dame, and the University of |
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| Chicago; he was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union |
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| and a lifetime member of the NAACP; and
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| WHEREAS, Judge Pincham is survived by his son, Robert |
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| Eugene Pincham Jr.; his daughter, Dr. Andrea Michelle |
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| Pincham-Benton; his son, James Frederick Pincham; and his three |
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| grandchildren; he was preceded in death by his wife; therefore, |
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| be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we |
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| mourn, along with his family and friends, the passing of Judge |
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| R. Eugene Pincham; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |