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Everett McKinley Dirksen (January 4, 1896 – September 7, 1969) was an American politician. A Republican , he represented Illinois in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate .
Clark, however, carried the state's most populous county, Cook County, taking 54.07% of the vote, to Dirksen's 45.52%. [1] Since Cook County was home to 50.65% of the votes cast in the election, the final result of the election was close, despite Dirksen winning a landslide 60.70% of the vote to Clark's 38.92% in the other 101 counties of the ...
Incumbent Republican and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen won re-election to his fourth term over William G. Clark (D), the Illinois Attorney General. He would not serve the entirety of his term as he would die in 1970.
The 1970 United States Senate special election in Illinois was held on November 3, 1970, [1] to fill the remainder of the term of Republican Everett Dirksen, who had died in office. Republican Ralph Tyler Smith had been appointed to fill the seat after Dirksen's death, and he lost the special election to Democrat Adlai Stevenson III.
Hammond will take on the role of the late Sen. Everett McKinley Dirksen in a staged reading beginning next month in New York, organizers announced… ‘SNL’ alum Darrell Hammond to play Sen ...
To secure the nominations, Johnson attained personal guarantees from the Senate’s two most powerful members, Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, and Richard Russell, the long-time leader of the ...
Among the 88 counties that Dirksen won was the state's most populous county, Cook County, in which Dirksen won with 51.13% to Stengel's 48.63%. [1] Despite losing in Cook County, Stengel performed better in the county than he did in the cumulative vote of the remaining 101 counties [ 1 ] In the cumulative vote of the state's other 101 counties ...
(The Center Square) – Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has completed his first day of testimony at the longtime Chicago Democrat’s corruption trial at the Everett McKinley Dirksen ...