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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of Dennis J. Fox; and
 
4     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
 
6     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
 
13     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
 
21     WHEREAS, After his discharge from the Army, Dennis Fox

 

 

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1 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
 
9     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
 
15     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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1 brother-in-law of Myriam Prudhomme, Bernadette Jounneau, Odile
2 Nicaise, Francoise (Yves) Tabourier, and Chantal Prudhomme;
3 therefore, be it
 
4     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 further
 
8     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
9 presented to the family of Dennis Fox as an expression of our
10 sympathy.