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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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| learned with sadness of the death of David Livingston, age 69, |
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| of Decatur on March 9, 2005; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Livingston was retired from Archer Daniels |
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| Midland Co., where he served as an equal employment opportunity |
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| officer; and
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| WHEREAS, He had most recently been a Democratic member of |
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| the Macon County Board from District 1, a position to which he |
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| won re-election in November; he had been president of the |
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| Illinois Conference of the National Association for the |
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| Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1989 to 1999 and was |
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| also a past president of the Decatur branch;
he was dedicated |
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| to the work of the NAACP and during his time as president of |
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| the state conference, he was supportive of fair housing |
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| studies; and
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| WHEREAS, He will be remembered as someone who made a |
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| difference in the community; he was a quiet leader and |
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| plain-spoken man devoted to the civil rights movement, a |
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| remarkable guy who had a history much, much deeper than his |
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| service on the county board; he and his family had deep roots |
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| in the civil rights movement;
and
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| WHEREAS, He was a good family man and a great father; he |
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| took pride in his family; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of David Livingston is felt by all who |
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| knew and loved him, especially his wife, Donna, and his two |
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| sons, Malcolm and David; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL |
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| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of |
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