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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, George E. Sangmeister was born in Frankfort in |
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| 1931; he served as Will County States Attorney and later served |
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| in both the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois |
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| Senate; and
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| WHEREAS, George Sangmeister was elected to Congress in |
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| November of 1988, and was re-elected to the House in 1990 and |
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| again in 1992, retiring in January of 1995; while in Congress, |
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| he served on three House Committees: Public Works and |
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| Transportation, Veteran's Affairs, and Judiciary; and
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| WHEREAS, In more than 30 years of public service, George E. |
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| Sangmeister has held office in every branch of government; he |
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| began his public career as a Justice of the Peace and |
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| Magistrate of the Circuit Court of Will County in 1961; from |
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| 1964-68, he served as State's Attorney In Will County; he was |
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| elected in 1972 to the Illinois House of Representatives for |
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| two terms and returned to Springfield as Illinois Senator from |
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| 1976 to 1987; in the Senate he served as both chairman of the |
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| Senate Judiciary Committee and the chairman of the Senate |
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| Executive Committee; he was named one of the "Top Ten |
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| Legislators" in a 1985 poll conducted by the Chicago Sun-Times; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, George E. Sangmeister is a member of many civic |
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| organizations: the Frankfort Unit of the American Cancer |
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| Society; the Silver Cross Hospital Foundation Board; the |
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| American Legion; and the Frankfort Lions Club and is a member |
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| and former Chairman of the Support Committee for the Abraham |
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| Lincoln National Cemetery; he served as a member of the |
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| Lincoln-Way High School District 210 Board of Education from |
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| September 1970 through April 1973; he is a former member of the |
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| Board of Directors of Joliet Junior College Foundation; he |
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| served as Chairman of the Housing Foundation of Will County, |
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| serving the homeless and those in need of affordable housing; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, George E. Sangmeister chaired the committee that |
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| planned the transfer of the Joliet Arsenal from military to |
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| civilian use; he personally designated the committee to |
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| allocate almost 1,000 acres as the site for the now established |
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| Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery; and
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| WHEREAS, George E. Sangmeister is married to Doris |
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| (Hinspeter) Sangmeister and is the father of Kurt and Kimberly |
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| and the grandfather of Jordan, Cole, Keegan, and Kinzie; and
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| WHEREAS, A sculpture will be dedicated on May 26, 2007 at |
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| the Frankfort Founders Center to George E. Sangmeister for his |
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| hard work and devotion to the Village of Frankfort, the County |
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| of Will, and the State of Illinois; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we |
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| honor the life of George E. Sangmeister and acknowledge the |
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| legacy and history of this important person in the life of |
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| Frankfort; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| presented to George E. Sangmeister and the Village of Frankfort |
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| as a symbol of our respect.
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