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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, George E. Sangmeister was born in Frankfort in
3 1931; he served as Will County States Attorney and later served
4 in both the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois
5 Senate; and
 
6     WHEREAS, George Sangmeister was elected to Congress in
7 November of 1988, and was re-elected to the House in 1990 and
8 again in 1992, retiring in January of 1995; while in Congress,
9 he served on three House Committees: Public Works and
10 Transportation, Veteran's Affairs, and Judiciary; and
 
11     WHEREAS, In more than 30 years of public service, George E.
12 Sangmeister has held office in every branch of government; he
13 began his public career as a Justice of the Peace and
14 Magistrate of the Circuit Court of Will County in 1961; from
15 1964-68, he served as State's Attorney In Will County; he was
16 elected in 1972 to the Illinois House of Representatives for
17 two terms and returned to Springfield as Illinois Senator from
18 1976 to 1987; in the Senate he served as both chairman of the
19 Senate Judiciary Committee and the chairman of the Senate
20 Executive Committee; he was named one of the "Top Ten
21 Legislators" in a 1985 poll conducted by the Chicago Sun-Times;
22 and
 

 

 

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1     WHEREAS, George E. Sangmeister is a member of many civic
2 organizations: the Frankfort Unit of the American Cancer
3 Society; the Silver Cross Hospital Foundation Board; the
4 American Legion; and the Frankfort Lions Club and is a member
5 and former Chairman of the Support Committee for the Abraham
6 Lincoln National Cemetery; he served as a member of the
7 Lincoln-Way High School District 210 Board of Education from
8 September 1970 through April 1973; he is a former member of the
9 Board of Directors of Joliet Junior College Foundation; he
10 served as Chairman of the Housing Foundation of Will County,
11 serving the homeless and those in need of affordable housing;
12 and
 
13     WHEREAS, George E. Sangmeister chaired the committee that
14 planned the transfer of the Joliet Arsenal from military to
15 civilian use; he personally designated the committee to
16 allocate almost 1,000 acres as the site for the now established
17 Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery; and
 
18     WHEREAS, George E. Sangmeister is married to Doris
19 (Hinspeter) Sangmeister and is the father of Kurt and Kimberly
20 and the grandfather of Jordan, Cole, Keegan, and Kinzie; and
 
21     WHEREAS, A sculpture will be dedicated on May 26, 2007 at
22 the Frankfort Founders Center to George E. Sangmeister for his
23 hard work and devotion to the Village of Frankfort, the County

 

 

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1 of Will, and the State of Illinois; therefore, be it
 
2     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
3 NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
4 honor the life of George E. Sangmeister and acknowledge the
5 legacy and history of this important person in the life of
6 Frankfort; and be it further
 
7     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
8 presented to George E. Sangmeister and the Village of Frankfort
9 as a symbol of our respect.