Full Text of SR0076 95th General Assembly
SR0076 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois | 3 |
| wish to express their sincere condolences to the family and | 4 |
| friends of Morris B. Chapman of Edwardsville who passed away on | 5 |
| Sunday, February 18, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, He was born in 1919 in Granite City to Robert and | 7 |
| Gladys Chapman; he was united in marriage for 59 years to | 8 |
| Thelma (Hoggett); and
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| WHEREAS, He was a highly respected trial lawyer, graduating | 10 |
| from St. Louis University Law School in 1942, and practicing | 11 |
| law for more than 63 years in the Granite City area; he was a | 12 |
| past president of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and | 13 |
| the Tri City Bar Association; he was also an Illinois State | 14 |
| committeeman for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, a | 15 |
| member of the prestigious Inner Circle of Advocates, and a | 16 |
| member of many other law-related organizations; in 1954, he | 17 |
| became the youngest lawyer at the time to have argued before | 18 |
| the United States Supreme Court; and
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| WHEREAS, He was active in the civil rights movement in the | 20 |
| 1960s and 1970s; he was a life member of the NAACP and marched | 21 |
| in Chicago with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1966; as a | 22 |
| 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 | 2 |
| lived in Guatemala for three years serving the faith, and while | 3 |
| there was a member of the Guatemalan Baha'i National Spiritual | 4 |
| Assembly; he then lived in Trinidad and Tabago for two more | 5 |
| years serving the Baha'i faith; and
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| WHEREAS, He was an avid aviator, horseman, automobile | 7 |
| enthusiast, and watch collector; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Morris B. Chapman has been deeply | 9 |
| felt by many, especially his wife, Thelma; his children and | 10 |
| their spouses, Morris Chapman Jr., Martha and Jim Leary, | 11 |
| Melissa and Phil Rheinecker, Amy and Greg McCamus and James | 12 |
| Chapman; and his grandchildren and great-grandchildren;
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| preceded in death by his parents; his son, Robert Chapman; his | 14 |
| brother, Robert E. Chapman; and his twin sister, Doris Fleming; | 15 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 17 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 18 |
| Morris B. Chapman and we extend our sincere condolences to his | 19 |
| family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | 20 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 22 |
| presented to his family as an expression of our deepest |
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| sympathy.
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