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Name | William G. Stratton |
Address | Morris, Illinois , United States |
Email | None |
Website | None |
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February 26, 1914
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Died | March 02, 2001
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Contributor | COSDem |
Last Modifed | RBH Jul 19, 2015 11:18pm |
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Info | Born in Ingleside, Lake County, Ill., February 26, 1914; attended the public schools; graduated from the University of Arizona, Tucson, 1934; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1943); was not a candidate for renomination in 1942; Illinois state treasurer, 1943-1944, and 1950-1952; served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy, 1945-1946; elected as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1949); was not a candidate for renomination in 1948; delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1952, 1956, 1960, and 1976; elected governor of Illinois in 1952, and reelected to the succeeding term, serving from January 12, 1953, to January 9, 1961; was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection as governor in 1960; unsuccessful candidate for nomination for governor in 1968; died on March 2, 2001, in Chicago, Ill.
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