Full Text of HR0231 94th General Assembly
HR0231 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Philip Miller Crane was born in Chicago on | 3 |
| November 3, 1930; he was educated at Hillsdale College, the | 4 |
| University of Vienna, and Indiana University (PhD 1961), and | 5 |
| served in the United States Army; and
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| WHEREAS, Congressman Phil Crane was a faculty member at | 7 |
| Indiana University and at Bradley University in Peoria, a staff | 8 |
| member for the Republican National Committee, director of | 9 |
| research for the 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry | 10 |
| Goldwater, and a staff member of former Vice-President Richard | 11 |
| Nixon from 1964 to 1968, before entering the United States | 12 |
| House of Representatives; and
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| WHEREAS, Congressman Phil Crane was a Republican member of | 14 |
| the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 2005, | 15 |
| representing the 8th District of Illinois in the northwestern | 16 |
| suburbs of Chicago; he was first elected to Congress in the | 17 |
| 13th District of Illinois in a 1969 special election, | 18 |
| succeeding Representative Donald Rumsfeld, who was appointed | 19 |
| to a position in the Nixon Administration; he was elected to a | 20 |
| full term in 1970 and 16 times thereafter; his district number | 21 |
| changed as Illinois lost population; it went from the 13th | 22 |
| (1969-73) to the 12th (1973-93) to the 8th (1993-2005); he | 23 |
| almost always won with 70 percent or more of the vote until the | 24 |
| 1990s, when Illinois began trending more Democratic; before | 25 |
| losing his re-election bid during the 2004 election, he was the | 26 |
| longest-serving Republican member of the U.S. House of | 27 |
| Representatives; and
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| WHEREAS, For 35 years, Congressman Phil Crane represented | 29 |
| the beliefs of his constituents, including family values, low | 30 |
| taxes, a strong military, limited government, and respect for | 31 |
| the unborn; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 2 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 3 |
| former Congressman Philip Miller Crane shall be honored for his | 4 |
| exemplary career of service to the citizens of the State of | 5 |
| Illinois; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, Congressman Crane shall be remembered and | 7 |
| honored for his steadfast commitment to democracy and the | 8 |
| democratic process that has enabled him to faithfully represent | 9 |
| the State of Illinois, and allowed him the opportunity to | 10 |
| embody, for 35 years, the courage, knowledge, and honesty | 11 |
| needed in an Illinois elected official to represent our State | 12 |
| in the United States Congress; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution is to be | 14 |
| presented to Congressman Philip Crane and his family.
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