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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois |
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| wish to express their sincere condolences to the family and |
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| friends of Morris B. Chapman of Edwardsville who passed away on |
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| Sunday, February 18, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, He was born in 1919 in Granite City to Robert and |
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| Gladys Chapman; he was united in marriage for 59 years to |
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| Thelma (Hoggett); and
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| WHEREAS, He was a highly respected trial lawyer, graduating |
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| from St. Louis University Law School in 1942, and practicing |
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| law for more than 63 years in the Granite City area; he was a |
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| past president of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and |
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| the Tri City Bar Association; he was also an Illinois State |
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| committeeman for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, a |
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| member of the prestigious Inner Circle of Advocates, and a |
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| member of many other law-related organizations; in 1954, he |
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| became the youngest lawyer at the time to have argued before |
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| the United States Supreme Court; and
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| WHEREAS, He was active in the civil rights movement in the |
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| 1960s and 1970s; he was a life member of the NAACP and marched |
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| in Chicago with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1966; as a |
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| younger lawyer, he did volunteer work with the ACLU in |
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| Mississippi;
he was a member of the Baha'i Faith and his family |
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| lived in Guatemala for three years serving the faith, and while |
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| there was a member of the Guatemalan Baha'i National Spiritual |
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| Assembly; he then lived in Trinidad and Tabago for two more |
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| years serving the Baha'i faith; and
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| WHEREAS, He was an avid aviator, horseman, automobile |
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| enthusiast, and watch collector; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Morris B. Chapman has been deeply |
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| felt by many, especially his wife, Thelma; his children and |
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| their spouses, Morris Chapman Jr., Martha and Jim Leary, |
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| Melissa and Phil Rheinecker, Amy and Greg McCamus and James |
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| Chapman; and his grandchildren and great-grandchildren;
he was |
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| preceded in death by his parents; his son, Robert Chapman; his |
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| brother, Robert E. Chapman; and his twin sister, Doris Fleming; |
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| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL |
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| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of |
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| Morris B. Chapman and we extend our sincere condolences to his |
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| family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it |
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| further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| presented to his family as an expression of our deepest |