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    Otto Kerner Jr. (August 15, 1908 – May 9, 1976) was an American jurist and politician. He served as the 33rd governor of Illinois from 1961 to 1968 and...
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    Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor Otto Kerner Jr. of Illinois, was an 11-member Presidential Commission...
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  • (1932–1938) & judge on U.S. Court of Appeals for Seventh Circuit (1938–1952) Otto Kerner Jr. (1908–1976), Governor of Illinois (1961–1968) & judge on U.S. Court...
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    bravery in saving others after an explosion at a Manhattan Project plant. Otto Kerner Jr., US Army, was awarded the Soldier's Medal for rescuing a drowning soldier...
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    Otto Kerner (February 22, 1884 – December 13, 1952) was the attorney general of Illinois and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court...
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    Illinois on November 3, 1964. The Democratic nominee, incumbent Governor Otto Kerner, Jr., won reelection against the Republican nominee, Charles H. Percy....
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  • Johann Georg Kerner (1770–1812), political journalist, critical chronicler of the French revolution, brother of Justinus Kerner Otto Kerner, Jr. (1908–1976)...
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    Stratton, a Republican seeking a third term, lost reelection to Democrat Otto Kerner Jr. The primaries and general election both coincided with those for federal...
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    Hugh Clowers Thompson Jr. (April 15, 1943 – January 6, 2006) was a United States Army officer, serving as a warrant officer in the 123rd Aviation Battalion...
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    Cermak's son-in-law, Otto Kerner Jr., served as the 33rd Governor of Illinois, and as a federal circuit judge. His grandson, Frank J. Jirka, Jr., who was with...
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    1953 sess., 43, accessed August 16, 2023 Sobel 1978, pp. 389–390. "Otto Kerner, Jr". National Governors Association. Retrieved February 23, 2023. Illinois...
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    again in 1964, and took office as governor when the previous governor Otto Kerner, Jr. resigned to accept appointment to the federal appellate court. Shapiro...
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    Corps, 22nd US National Security Advisor Bob Kalsu, NFL football player Otto Kerner Jr., Governor of Illinois Bob Kerrey, US Senator John Kerry, 68th US Secretary...
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    unprecedented third consecutive term, but was defeated by Democrat Otto Kerner, Jr. [citation needed] Stratton was acquitted on charges of tax evasion...
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    For the 1960 redistricting cycle, the state's governor was Democrat Otto Kerner Jr., while both chambers of the legislature were controlled by Republicans...
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    surrendered his corporate records to the SEC. United States Attorney Otto Kerner Jr. began a grand jury investigation in February 1949. On March 3, a federal...
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  • Society. Born in Chicago as a grandson of Anton Cermak and nephew of Otto Kerner Jr., Jirka served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy during World War II...
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    Samuel H. Shapiro (who had assumed the governorship in May 1968, after Otto Kerner Jr. resigned in order to accept a judicial appointment), lost reelection...
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    gubernatorial election against increasingly unpopular incumbent Governor Otto Kerner, Jr. and the 1968 United States Senate election in Illinois against incumbent...
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    the fourth Illinois governor to serve time in federal prison, after Otto Kerner Jr., Dan Walker (post-governorship criminal activity), and George Ryan...
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    Economic Development in Illinois, an assistant to Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, Jr., and the president of the Illinois Sports Council. He was a Democratic...
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  • Anthony Herbert Patrick J. Hessian Don Holleder Bob Hoover Eli D. Hoyle Otto Kerner Jr. Melbourne Kimsey Darwin K. Kyle Richard L. Lawson Reis Leming Charles...
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    successfully prosecuted then-U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Otto Kerner, Jr. This was the first time in U.S. history that a sitting federal court...
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  • 1928, Mayor of Chicago, Illinois 1931–33. Father-in-law of Otto Kerner Jr. Otto Kerner Jr. (1908–1976), U.S. Attorney in Illinois 1947–54, Judge in Cook...
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  • personal friend of Abraham Lincoln Otto Kerner, Jr., Governor of Illinois (1961 to 1968). Son-in-law of Anton Cermak, Kerner led the National Advisory Commission...
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    : 622–23  Powell also declined an offer from Secretary of the Army John O. Marsh Jr. to be his under secretary due to his reluctance to assume a political appointment;...
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  • Anthony Herbert Patrick J. Hessian Don Holleder Bob Hoover Eli D. Hoyle Otto Kerner Jr. Melbourne Kimsey Darwin K. Kyle Richard L. Lawson Reis Leming Charles...
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  • observation helicopter, his pilot was Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson, Jr. and his door-gunner was Specialist Four Lawrence Colburn, both of whom would...
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    Illinois was being planned during the 1960s, the state's governor, Otto Kerner Jr., made an effort to have it routed close to the larger city of Peoria...
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    Crunch. He was raised in Pilsen. Otto Kerner Jr., 33rd Governor of Illinois (1961–1968). He was raised in Pilsen. Otto Kerner Sr., 28th Illinois Attorney General...
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