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The 16th congressional district of Illinois is represented by Republican Darin LaHood.Prominent past representatives from the 16th district have included Everett Dirksen, who went on to become the Republican leader in the United States Senate; John B. Anderson, who became the 3rd highest ranking Republican in the House and went on to run as a major independent candidate in the 1980 ...
Pekin is split between Congressional Districts 16 and 17- the majority of Pekin is in District 16 and represented by Darrin LaHood (R). [87] Extreme southwestern Pekin is in District 17 and represented by Eric Sorensen (D) .
The governor of Illinois has the power to veto proposed congressional district maps, but the General Assembly has the power to override the veto, with the support of 3/5ths of both chambers. In 1971, 1981, and 1991, the General Assembly was unable to come to an agreement, and the map was drawn up by a panel of three federal judges chosen by ...
The new U.S. District 16 map stretches from the Wisconsin border south to Bloomington, circling around cities such as Rockford, Peoria and Bloomington. ... U.S. Representative - 18th Congressional ...
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Illinois.For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Illinois.
District District District At-large Congress 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th Seat A Seat B Martin B. Madden (R) James Robert Mann (R) George E. Gorman (D) James T. McDermott (D) Adolph J. Sabath (D) James McAndrews (D) Frank Buchanan (D) Thomas Gallagher (D ...
A duplicate is located in Mineral Springs Park in his hometown of Pekin, Illinois. Dirksen recorded four spoken-word albums. In 1967 a recording of his own poem "Gallant Men" reached No. 16 on the Billboard 200 and won a Grammy Award for Best Documentary Recording in 1968.
Darin McKay LaHood (/ l ə ˈ h ʊ d / lə-HOOD; born July 5, 1968) [1] is an American attorney and politician who has served as a U.S. representative from Illinois since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, LaHood has represented the 16th district since 2023, and previously represented the 18th district from 2015 to 2023.