Full Text of SR0572 096th General Assembly
SR0572 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 |
| learn of the death of
Dennis J. Fox; and
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| WHEREAS, Dennis Fox was born on December 9, 1930 in Beaver | 5 |
| Dam; he was the son of Henry J. and Mayme B. (Jezyk) Fox; and
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| WHEREAS, Dennis Fox graduated from Beaver Dam High School | 7 |
| in 1947 and from Wayland Junior College in 1949; in June of | 8 |
| 1951, he received his bachelor's degree in journalism from the | 9 |
| University of Wisconsin with senior high honors and election to | 10 |
| the Phi Beta Kappa honor society; he was then awarded the | 11 |
| Kemper K. Knapp law scholarship to the University of Wisconsin | 12 |
| School of Law; and
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| WHEREAS, In August of 1952, Dennis Fox was drafted into the | 14 |
| United States Army, where he was trained as a signal corps | 15 |
| cryptographer and was assigned to Fontainebleau, France, the | 16 |
| headquarters of NATO land forces for central Europe at the | 17 |
| time; while there, he met a French cryptographer, Monique | 18 |
| Cecile Prudhomme; on August 18, 1954, the couple was married in | 19 |
| the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in her home town of Dinan, in | 20 |
| the province of Brittany; and
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| WHEREAS, After his discharge from the Army, Dennis Fox |
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| returned to the University of Wisconsin and earned his Juris | 2 |
| doctor degree in June of 1957; after graduation, he worked as | 3 |
| an attorney in IRS legal offices in Cincinnati, Ohio, | 4 |
| Indianapolis, Indiana, and Miami, Florida; in 1971, he was | 5 |
| assigned to the IRS headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he | 6 |
| became the assistant director, then the director of the IRS tax | 7 |
| court litigation division; he later became the associate chief | 8 |
| counsel for tax litigation; and
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| WHEREAS, In January of 1979, Dennis Fox was transferred to | 10 |
| Chicago to serve as the regional counsel in charge of the IRS | 11 |
| legal offices in the IRS Midwest division; in June of 1986, he | 12 |
| retired from the IRS and joined the law firm of Lord, Bissell | 13 |
| and Brook, where he remained in active practice of tax law | 14 |
| until January of 2002; and
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| WHEREAS, Dennis Fox was a member of the bars of the United | 16 |
| States Supreme Court, the Court of Federal Claims, the United | 17 |
| States Tax Court, the Ohio Supreme Court, the Illinois Supreme | 18 |
| Court, and 3 United States district courts; he also was a | 19 |
| member of the American and Chicago Bar Associations; and | 20 |
| WHEREAS, Dennis Fox was the beloved husband of Monique | 21 |
| Cecile Fox; the loving father of Daniel Fox and David (Nina) | 22 |
| Fox; the dear brother of Joan (G. William) Hrobsky, the fond | 23 |
| uncle of Julie Hrobsky and Steven Hrobsky; and the dear |
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| brother-in-law of Myriam Prudhomme, Bernadette Jounneau, Odile | 2 |
| Nicaise, Francoise (Yves) Tabourier, and Chantal Prudhomme; | 3 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 5 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 6 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Dennis J. Fox; and be it | 7 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 9 |
| presented to the family of Dennis Fox as an expression of our | 10 |
| sympathy.
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