Full Text of HR0016 96th General Assembly
HR0016 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Honorable Barack Obama of Illinois was elected | 3 |
| the 44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008; | 4 |
| and
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| WHEREAS, Although other Illinoisans have been elected to | 6 |
| the nation's highest office, Barack Obama is the first person, | 7 |
| since Abraham Lincoln, to be elected President of the United | 8 |
| States while a citizen of Illinois; and
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| WHEREAS, Barack Obama served in the Illinois General | 10 |
| Assembly as a State Senator from 1997 until 2005; and
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| WHEREAS, The Republican side of the aisle in the Chamber of | 12 |
| the Illinois House of Representatives is marked by a portrait | 13 |
| of Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican and Illinoisan to | 14 |
| serve as President of the United States; and
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| WHEREAS, The Democratic side of the aisle in the Chamber of | 16 |
| the Illinois House of Representatives is marked by a portrait | 17 |
| of Senator Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln's political rival, who | 18 |
| defeated Lincoln in a race for the United States Senate in | 19 |
| Illinois in 1858, and who was an important leader of Illinois | 20 |
| Democrats in the antebellum period; and
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| WHEREAS, Although Senator Douglas received his party's | 2 |
| nomination for President of the United States in the 1860 | 3 |
| election, he was not elected to that post; and
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| WHEREAS, Other Illinoisans have sought, unsuccessfully, | 5 |
| the office of President of the United States in the period | 6 |
| since the Lincoln administration; and
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| WHEREAS, the election of a President from our State is a | 8 |
| rare event of epic importance; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 10 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that a | 11 |
| portrait of President Barack Obama should be commissioned to | 12 |
| replace the portrait of Senator Douglas and to serve as a | 13 |
| visible marker of the Democratic side of the aisle in the | 14 |
| Chamber of the Illinois House of Representatives; and be it | 15 |
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| RESOLVED, That the portrait of Senator Douglas should be | 17 |
| moved to another appropriate and dignified location within the | 18 |
| Illinois State Capitol, where it will continue to be displayed | 19 |
| in tribute to Senator Douglas's position as a historical figure | 20 |
| of the utmost importance in the development of the American | 21 |
| nation.
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