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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3learn of the death of James Edward "the Duke" Gorman II of
4Edwardsville, who passed away on May 2, 2016; and
 
5    WHEREAS, James Gorman II was born in Chicago to James and
6Mae Catherine (Jiracek) Gorman on November 9, 1930; he
7graduated from Fenwick High School in 1948 and earned his
8Bachelor of Arts from St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa in
91952; he earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of
10Illinois School of Law in 1955; he was a member of the
11International Legal Honor Society of Phi Delta Phi and was
12admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1956; he served with the United
13States Army Security Agency from 1955 to 1957 and married
14Beverly Ann Gorman at St. Mary Church in Edwardsville on
15October 1, 1960; and
 
16    WHEREAS, In 1959, after two years with the Heyl Royster
17firm in Peoria, James Gorman II moved to Edwardsville and
18entered into law practice with Burton Bernard; in 1963, he
19became a partner with Reed, Armstrong and Gorman; he retired in
202002, and joined the firm of Lucco, Brown and Mudge; he retired
21again in December of 2015; during his 60 year legal career, he
22tried over 450 jury trials; and
 

 

 

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1    WHEREAS, James Gorman II was a member of the American Bar
2Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, a former
3President of the Madison County Bar Association, and a Fellow
4in the American College of Trial Lawyers; and
 
5    WHEREAS, James Gorman II's passions included his family,
6the law, and sailing; he competitively raced his sailboats at
7Lake Carlyle for four decades; and
 
8    WHEREAS, James Gorman II was preceded in death by his
9parents; his sisters, Rosemary Leach and Jean Hughes; and his
10brothers-in-law, Robert Hughes and Donald Schweinberg; and
 
11    WHEREAS, James Gorman II is survived by his wife of 55
12years, Beverly; his three sisters, Marcella Gorman, Virginia
13Schweinberg, and Patricia (John) Kruger; his three children and
14four stepchildren, Ann Elizabeth Gorman, James Edward Gorman
15III, Mary Ellen Gorman, John Gregory Mudge Jr., Stephen Clark
16Mudge, Robert Matthew Mudge, and William Anthony Mudge; his
17seven grandchildren, John Ludwig Mudge, Taylor Lee Mudge,
18Lauren Bond Mudge, Jacob Bond Mudge, Jamie Gorman Skigen,
19Willem Gorman Skigen, and Maggie Palmer-Gorman; and his
20brother-in-law, Chuck Leach; therefore, be it
 
21    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL
22ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of

 

 

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1James Edward "the Duke" Gorman II, and extend our sincere
2condolences to his family, friends, and all who knew and loved
3him; and be it further
 
4    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
5presented to the family of James Gorman II as an expression of
6our deepest sympathy.