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Mary E. Flowers (born July 31, 1951) is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives.Representative Flowers is the longest serving African-American legislator in Illinois history. [1]
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. The list of names should be complete as ...
The 90th Congress was notable because for a period of 10 days (December 24, 1968 – January 3, 1969), it contained within the Senate, all 10 of what was at one point the top 10 longest-serving senators in history (Byrd, Inouye, Thurmond, Kennedy, Hayden, Stennis, Stevens, Hollings, Russell Jr., and Long) until January 7, 2013, when Patrick Leahy surpassed Russell B. Long as the 10th longest ...
Michael Joseph Madigan (born April 19, 1942) is an American politician who is the former speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. [1] He was the longest-serving leader of any state or federal legislative body in the history of the United States, having held the position for all but two years from 1983 to 2021. [2]
2024 Illinois House of Representatives election, 39th District Party Candidate Votes % Democratic: Will Guzzardi (incumbent) 29,955 : 81. 12 : Republican: Anthony Curran 6,968 18.87 Write-in: Justin Tucker 2 <0.01 Total votes 36,925 : 100.0 : Democratic hold
Illinois: March 4, 1907 - November 6, 1952 16,684 dd October 24, 1957 July 18, 1963 Sam Rayburn: Democratic Texas: March 4, 1913 - November 16, 1961 17,789 dd July 18, 1963 January 5, 1992 Carl Vinson: Democratic Georgia: November 3, 1914 - January 3, 1965 18,324 dd January 5, 1992 February 10, 2009 Jamie L. Whitten: Democratic Mississippi
Cronin declined to wait at the 1990 elections, when he ran for the 40th district of the House of Representatives. [6] During the Republican primary, he defeated incumbent Gene L. Hoffman, who had been in the legislature for 24 years [18] and was the longest-serving Republican in the House. [19]
Since Illinois became a U.S. state in 1818, it has sent congressional delegations to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. Each state elects two senators to serve for six years, and members of the House to two-year terms.