Full Text of HR0622 94th General Assembly
HR0622 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, William Hubbs Rehnquist was born in Milwaukee, | 3 |
| Wisconsin, on October 1, 1924, the son of William Benjamin | 4 |
| Rehnquist, a paper salesman, and Margery Peck Rehnquist, a | 5 |
| translator and homemaker; and
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| WHEREAS, After graduating from Shorewood High School in | 7 |
| 1942, Mr. Rehnquist attended Kenyon College for one quarter in | 8 |
| the fall of 1942 before entering the U.S. Army Air Corps; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Rehnquist served in World War II from March of | 10 |
| 1943 to 1946; he was placed into a pre-meteorology program and | 11 |
| was assigned to Denison University until February of 1944, when | 12 |
| the program was shut down; and
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| WHEREAS, The program was designed to teach maintenance and | 14 |
| repair of weather instruments; in the summer of 1945, Mr. | 15 |
| Rehnquist went overseas and served as a weather observer in | 16 |
| North Africa; and
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| WHEREAS, After the war ended, Mr. Rehnquist attended | 18 |
| Stanford University under the G.I. Bill; in 1948, he received a | 19 |
| bachelor's degree and a master's degree in political science, | 20 |
| and in 1950, he went to Harvard University, where he received a | 21 |
| master's degree in government; he returned later to Stanford | 22 |
| University, where he attended law school, graduating first in | 23 |
| his class; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Rehnquist went to Washington, D.C., to work as | 25 |
| a law clerk for Justice Robert H. Jackson during the court's | 26 |
| 1951-1952 terms; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Rehnquist moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he | 28 |
| was in private practice from 1953 to 1969; during these years, | 29 |
| he was active in the Republican Party and served as a legal |
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| advisor to Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Rehnquist served as Assistant Attorney | 3 |
| General of the Office of Legal Counsel from 1969 to 1971; in | 4 |
| this role, he served as the chief lawyer to Attorney General | 5 |
| John Mitchell; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1971, President Richard M. Nixon nominated Mr. | 7 |
| Rehnquist to replace John Marshall Harlan II on the Supreme | 8 |
| Court; upon Harlan's retirement, and after being confirmed by | 9 |
| the Senate by a 68-26 vote on December 10, 1971, Mr. Rehnquist | 10 |
| took his seat as an Associate Justice on January 7, 1972; and
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| WHEREAS, When Chief Justice Warren Burger retired in 1986, | 12 |
| President Ronald Reagan nominated Associate Justice Rehnquist | 13 |
| to fill the position of Chief Justice; he was confirmed by the | 14 |
| Senate by a 65-33 vote and assumed the office on September 26; | 15 |
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| WHEREAS, On October 26, 2004, the Supreme Court announced | 17 |
| that Chief Justice Rehnquist had recently been diagnosed with | 18 |
| thyroid cancer, and that he had been hospitalized at the | 19 |
| National Naval Medical Center in Maryland; and
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| WHEREAS, Chief Justice Rehnquist, after months of battling | 21 |
| his condition, finally succumbed at his Arlington, Virginia, | 22 |
| home on September 3, 2005, at the age of 80; and
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| WHEREAS, He is survived by his three children with his late | 24 |
| wife, Natalie Cornell, James, Janet, and Nancy; therefore, be | 25 |
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 27 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 28 |
| we celebrate and remember the extraordinary life of Chief | 29 |
| Justice William Hubbs Rehnquist; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 2 |
| presented to Chief Justice Rehnquist's three surviving | 3 |
| children with our deepest sympathies and highest regards.
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