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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The Illinois General Assembly is losing one of its | ||||||
3 | own members - Illinois State Representative Mike Bost - to the | ||||||
4 | United States House of Representatives; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Representative Bost was born and raised in | ||||||
6 | Murphysboro; he and his wife, Tracy, have been married for 34 | ||||||
7 | years and have 3 children and 9 grandchildren; and
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8 | WHEREAS, Representative Bost grew up working for Bost | ||||||
9 | Trucking, a small business owned by his father and uncle, doing | ||||||
10 | everything from hauling coal to washing trucks on weekends; and
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11 | WHEREAS, Representative Bost began his extensive and | ||||||
12 | dedicated tradition to public service with his enlistment in | ||||||
13 | the United States Marine Corps right after high school; he | ||||||
14 | served as an electronic specialist and radar repairman, | ||||||
15 | receiving an honorable discharge as a Corporal in 1982; and | ||||||
16 | WHEREAS, Representative Bost graduated from the Certified | ||||||
17 | Firefighter II Academy of the Illinois Fire Service Institute | ||||||
18 | at the University of Illinois in 1993; and
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19 | WHEREAS, Representative Bost served as a part-time and | ||||||
20 | full-time firefighter for the Murphysboro Fire Department; he |
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1 | has continued to serve the Murphysboro Fire Department during | ||||||
2 | his 6 terms as State Representative on an as-needed basis; and
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3 | WHEREAS, Representative Bost was first elected to public | ||||||
4 | office in 1984 when he was elected to the Jackson County Board; | ||||||
5 | and | ||||||
6 | WHEREAS, In 1986, Representative Bost served as President | ||||||
7 | of the Jackson County Republican Boosters and Treasurer of the | ||||||
8 | Jackson County Young Republicans; and
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9 | WHEREAS, Representative Bost served as precinct | ||||||
10 | committeeman for Murphysboro Precinct #4 from 1985 to 1989; he | ||||||
11 | also served as Treasurer for the City of Murphysboro from 1989 | ||||||
12 | to 1992 and as a Murphysboro Township Trustee from 1993 to | ||||||
13 | April of 1997; and
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14 | WHEREAS, Representative Bost was elected to the Illinois | ||||||
15 | House of Representatives for the first time in 1994; since that | ||||||
16 | time, he has had the privilege of representing southern | ||||||
17 | Illinois in the Illinois House of Representatives; and | ||||||
18 | WHEREAS, Representative Bost currently represents the | ||||||
19 | 115th District, which encompasses all or part of Jackson, | ||||||
20 | Jefferson, Perry, Union, and Washington Counties and the | ||||||
21 | communities of Anna, Ashley, Carbondale, Cobden, De Soto, |
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1 | DuQuoin, Mt. Vernon, Murphysboro, Pinckneyville, and | ||||||
2 | Vergennes; and
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3 | WHEREAS, On November 4, 2014, Representative Bost was | ||||||
4 | elected to the United States House of Representatives from the | ||||||
5 | 12th Congressional District of Illinois; and
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6 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
7 | Representatives would like to thank Representative Bost for his | ||||||
8 | 30 years of public service in the State of Illinois; the | ||||||
9 | members of this body will miss the passionate speeches and | ||||||
10 | floor debates that Representative Bost has shared with us for | ||||||
11 | the last 20 years; therefore, be it
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12 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
13 | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
14 | we congratulate State Representative Mike Bost on his election | ||||||
15 | to the United States House of Representatives and wish he and | ||||||
16 | his family all the best in his future endeavors; and be it | ||||||
17 | further
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18 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
19 | delivered to Representative Bost and the members of the | ||||||
20 | Illinois congressional delegation.
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