Full Text of SR0101 94th General Assembly
SR0101 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois | 3 |
| learned with great sadness of the death of their former | 4 |
| colleague, Richard A. Walsh, of River Forest on Tuesday, | 5 |
| January 25, 2005; and
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| WHEREAS, Senator Walsh was born in Chicago; he graduated | 7 |
| from Fenwick High School in Oak Park in 1948 and received an | 8 |
| undergraduate business degree from Loyola University in 1952; | 9 |
| he received his law degree from Loyola in 1954 and went on to | 10 |
| form what is now the Chicago law firm of McCracken, Walsh, and | 11 |
| deLaVan; and
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| WHEREAS, He spent his life as a lawyer, a suburban Chicago | 13 |
| father of six, and a State legislator, roles that friends and | 14 |
| family say he embraced with equal dedication; he served in the | 15 |
| Illinois House until 1974, including a stint as chairman of the | 16 |
| Appropriations Committee; he was then elected to the Illinois | 17 |
| Senate in 1976 and served until 1982; and
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| WHEREAS, Along with his political and legal careers, Mr. | 19 |
| Walsh served in the United States Navy in the late 1950s; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Walsh was often the first one in and the last | 21 |
| to leave his Chicago law firm, yet he always put his family | 22 |
| first and was there for ball games and weekend getaways; in the | 23 |
| legislature, he was known for carefully reading the hundreds of | 24 |
| bills that came up each year, never content to have staffers | 25 |
| read them for him; and
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| WHEREAS, He was a passionate Republican and walked through | 27 |
| political circles with an easy manner; he had a winning | 28 |
| combination of strong principles and an equally strong sense of | 29 |
| humor; he often joked about his sizable golf handicap and the | 30 |
| equity it brought to the game; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Walsh came from a politically involved family; | 2 |
| his uncle, Arthur Bidwill, was a longtime State senator and | 3 |
| Senate president; Mr. Walsh's brother, William Walsh, began | 4 |
| serving in the Illinois House in 1960, and when Mr. Walsh first | 5 |
| was elected in 1962, they became the only brothers to serve in | 6 |
| the legislature at the same time; his nephew, former Senator | 7 |
| Tom Walsh, continued the family legacy as a member of the State | 8 |
| Senate, where he served from 1995 to 2002; and
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| WHEREAS, In the summers, Mr. Walsh would take his family to | 10 |
| Lake Geneva in Wisconsin, and spend afternoons on the pier with | 11 |
| his kids; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Senator Richard A. Walsh has been | 13 |
| deeply felt by many, especially his wife, Patricia; his sons, | 14 |
| Richard Jr., Mark, Patrick, and Brian; his daughters, Katherine | 15 |
| and Anne; his two brothers, John and Robert; and his eight | 16 |
| grandchildren; therefore, be it | 17 |
| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL | 18 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 19 |
| former Senator Richard A. Walsh, and we extend our deepest | 20 |
| sympathy to his family, friends, and all who knew and loved | 21 |
| him; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 23 |
| presented to his family as an expression of our sincere | 24 |
| condolences.
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