Full Text of HR0557 099th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to congratulate Lonnie Stephenson on | 4 | | being appointed International President of the International | 5 | | Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW); and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Lonnie Stephenson was born and raised in Rock | 7 | | Island; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Lonnie Stephenson began his apprenticeship as an | 9 | | inside wireman in 1975 and was initiated into IBEW
Local Union | 10 | | 145 in 1976; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Lonnie Stephenson was very active in his local | 12 | | union early in his career, serving on several
committees and | 13 | | being elected Vice-President in 1984 and President from 1987 to | 14 | | 1992; as President, he implemented many new initiatives within | 15 | | his local union, including
forming an active community service | 16 | | committee, holding an annual blood drive, and
getting the local | 17 | | union's building recognized as a Red Cross Disaster Center, | 18 | | which was
utilized as such during flooding of the Quad-City | 19 | | area in 1997; he was appointed
Assistant Business Agent in 1991 | 20 | | and was elected Business Manager in 1996; as
Business Manager, | 21 | | he was very aggressive in organizing and his membership grew
| 22 | | from 700 members to over 1,100 during his tenure as Business |
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| 1 | | Manager; one
of his proudest moments as Business Manager was | 2 | | when a nonunion electrician
stopped in his office to ask how he | 3 | | could join the IBEW because it was too strong a union
area and | 4 | | he had to travel for his employer to find work; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, IBEW International President Edwin Hill | 6 | | recognized Lonnie Stephenson's dedication to the IBEW
and | 7 | | appointed him as an International Representative assigned to | 8 | | the Sixth District
on January 1, 2002; he was soon thereafter | 9 | | appointed the Organizing Coordinator for the
Sixth District and | 10 | | then Administrative Assistant to then IBEW Sixth District IVP | 11 | | Joseph
(Jeff) Lohman; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, On September 1st, 2010, Lonnie Stephenson was | 13 | | appointed by President Hill as International Vice-President of | 14 | | the Sixth District; he was then elected to a 5-year term by the | 15 | | delegates at
the IBEW's 38th International Convention held in | 16 | | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
in 2011; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, On May 27, 2015, Lonnie Stephenson was appointed | 18 | | International President of the IBEW effective
June 1, 2015; | 19 | | therefore, be it
| 20 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 21 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 22 | | congratulate Lonnie Stephenson on being appointed |
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| 1 | | International President of the International Brotherhood of | 2 | | Electrical Workers; and be it further
| 3 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 4 | | presented to the Lonnie Stephenson as an expression of our | 5 | | esteem and respect.
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