Full Text of HR0820 093rd General Assembly
HR0820 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives were saddened to learn of the death of Anthony | 4 |
| Scariano on April 17, 2004; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Scariano was an attorney who previously served | 6 |
| as a State Representative, assistant federal prosecutor, State | 7 |
| racing board chairman, Illinois appellate court justice, and | 8 |
| head of commissions aimed at improving the judiciary and | 9 |
| nominating candidates; and | 10 |
| WHEREAS, Mr. Scariano was born January 12, 1918, on | 11 |
| Chicago's North Side; he attended Lane Tech High School and | 12 |
| graduated from Wells High School; after beginning college, he | 13 |
| served as an intelligence officer in the Office of Strategic | 14 |
| Services, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency, in | 15 |
| northern Italy during World War II; and
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| WHEREAS, After the war, Mr. Scariano graduated from | 17 |
| Georgetown University's law school; while attending school in | 18 |
| Washington, he also worked as a guard at the Capitol and for | 19 |
| United States Senator Scott Lucas (D-Illinois); and
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| WHEREAS, From 1949 to 1954, Mr. Scariano served as an | 21 |
| assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago, where he eventually became | 22 |
| head of the civil division; in 1956, he was first elected to | 23 |
| the Illinois House from the south suburbs; and
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| WHEREAS, During his tenure as a State lawmaker, which began | 25 |
| in the mid-1950s, Mr. Scariano banded with a small group of | 26 |
| independent Democrats who practiced what they called | 27 |
| common-sense liberalism as they rebelled against the stifling | 28 |
| political control of the day to push for government reform; | 29 |
| demonstrating his stand against the political status quo, he | 30 |
| was one of the architects of the State's first Open Meetings |
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| Act, aimed at providing the sunshine of public disclosure and | 2 |
| input into the often-secretive closed-door meetings where | 3 |
| government business was transacted; and | 4 |
| WHEREAS, In 1985, he was appointed to the State appellate | 5 |
| court; he was then elected to a 10-year term on the court the | 6 |
| next year; though he retired from the bench in 1996, he | 7 |
| remained active in politics and an adamant supporter of | 8 |
| selecting judges based on merit appointment rather than | 9 |
| Illinois' system of an elected judiciary; in December 2002, Mr. | 10 |
| Scariano was among a group of judges who urged then Governor | 11 |
| George Ryan to push for dramatic reforms in the State's capital | 12 |
| punishment system and urged Governor Ryan to grant clemency to | 13 |
| those sentenced to death; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Scariano also was a founding member of the | 15 |
| Sicilian American Cultural Association, of which he also served | 16 |
| as president; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Anthony Scariano will be deeply | 18 |
| felt by many, especially his wife of 61 years, Leah; his sons, | 19 |
| Anthony and John; his two brothers, John and Joseph; his | 20 |
| sister, Marie Makowski; and his two grandchildren; and | 21 |
| WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his daughter, Mary | 22 |
| Phyllis Scariano; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 24 |
| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 25 |
| mourn the death of Anthony Scariano along with all who knew and | 26 |
| loved him and extend our sincere condolences to his family, | 27 |
| friends, and community; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 29 |
| presented to the family of Anthony Scariano as an expression of | 30 |
| our deepest sympathy.
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