Full Text of HR0966 095th General Assembly
HR0966 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are pleased to congratulate John W. Rowe, | 4 |
| Chairman, President, and CEO of Exelon Corporation, on being | 5 |
| honored for his achievements by the Illinois Holocaust Museum | 6 |
| and Education Center; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Rowe has led electric utilities since 1984, | 8 |
| consecutively serving as chief executive officer of Central | 9 |
| Maine Power Company, the New England Electric System, and | 10 |
| Unicorn Corporation (one of Exelon's predecessors); he is a | 11 |
| lawyer, and was general counsel of Consolidated Rail | 12 |
| Corporation and a partner in the firm of Isham, Lincoln, and | 13 |
| Beale; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Rowe is a member of the boards of directors of | 15 |
| Sunoco and the Northern Trust Company; he has previously served | 16 |
| on the boards of UnumProvident, Fleet Boston Financial | 17 |
| Corporation, Wisconsin Central Transportation Company, and | 18 |
| MidSouth Corporation; and | 19 |
| WHEREAS, His civic and professional commitments include | 20 |
| serving as chairman of the Chicago Historical Society, chairman | 21 |
| of the Board of Trustees of Illinois Institute of Technology, | 22 |
| chairman of the Mies van der Rohe Society, and vice chairman of |
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| The Commercial Club of Chicago; and he is a member of the Board | 2 |
| of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory, the Chicago Urban | 3 |
| League, the Field Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, | 4 |
| Northwestern University, the Edison Electric Institute, the | 5 |
| Nuclear Energy Institute, the Chicago Club and the visiting | 6 |
| committees of the Oriental Institute and the University of | 7 |
| Pennsylvania Museum; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Rowe has previously been chairman of the | 9 |
| Edison Electric Institute, president of the USS Constitution | 10 |
| Museum, and chairman of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable; | 11 |
| he is also a member of the board of the Wisconsin Alumni | 12 |
| Research Foundation, WiCell Research, and has received the | 13 |
| university's Distinguished Alumni Award; he holds honorary | 14 |
| doctorates from DePaul University, Illinois Institute of | 15 |
| Technology, Drexel University, University of | 16 |
| Massachusetts-Dartmouth, and Bryant College; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Rowe received the Executive of the Year Award | 18 |
| from the University of Arizona Eller College of Management in | 19 |
| 2007, the Founder's Award for Business Leadership from The | 20 |
| Union League of Philadelphia in 2005, a Civic Leadership Award | 21 |
| from the American Jewish Committee in 2004, the City Club of | 22 |
| Chicago's Citizen of the Year award in 2002, the Corporate | 23 |
| Leadership Award from the Spanish Coalition for Jobs in 2002, | 24 |
| and the Anti-Defamation League's World of Difference award in |
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| 2000; and | 2 |
| WHEREAS, Mr. Rowe has chaired fund raising events for the | 3 |
| Chicago Urban League, the Spanish Coalition For Jobs, El Valor, | 4 |
| the Merit School of Music, the Illinois Institute of | 5 |
| Technology, the Chicago History Museum, and the Cosmopolitan | 6 |
| Chamber of Commerce; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Rowe holds a Bachelor's degree and a Juris | 8 |
| Doctor degree from the University of Wisconsin and its law | 9 |
| school, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of | 10 |
| the Coif; and he is the founder of the Rowe Professorship in | 11 |
| Byzantine history; and | 12 |
| WHEREAS, Mr. Rowe is married to Jeanne M. Rowe and has one | 13 |
| son, William, and they reside in Chicago; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 15 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 16 |
| congratulate Mr. Rowe for his many achievements and wish him | 17 |
| continued success in his future endeavors; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 19 |
| presented to John W. Rowe as a symbol of our respect and | 20 |
| esteem.
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