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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IllinoisWASHINGTON, Harold
(1922—1987)
WASHINGTON, Harold, a Representative from Illinois; born in Chicago, Ill., April 15, 1922; attended the public schools; B.A., Roosevelt University, Chicago, 1949; J.D., Northwestern University School of Law, Evanston, Ill., 1952; admitted to the Illinois bar in 1953 and commenced practice in Chicago; served in the United States Air Force Engineers, 1942-1946; assistant city prosecutor, Chicago, 1954-1958; arbitrator, Illinois industrial Commission, 1960-1964; member, Illinois house of representatives, 1965-1976; member, Illinois senate, 1977-1980; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-seventh and Ninety-eighth Congresses and served until his resignation on April 30, 1983 (January 3, 1981-April 30, 1983); elected mayor of Chicago on April 12, 1983; reelected in 1987 and served from April 29, 1983, until his death in Chicago on November 25, 1987; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
Bibliography
Levinsohn, Florence Hamlish. Harold Washington: A Political Biography
. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1983.; Travis, Dempsey. Harold: The People’s Mayor: An Authorized Biography of Mayor Harold Washington
. Chicago: Urban Research Press, 1989.
”Harold Washington” in Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1989
. Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991.
Levinsohn, Florence Hamlish. Harold Washington: A Political Biography
. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1983.
Miller, Alton. Harold Washington: The Mayor, The Man.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 1989.
Rivlin, Gary. Fire on the Prairie: Chicago’s Harold Washington and the Politics of Race
. New York: H. Holt, 1992.
Travis, Dempsey. Harold: The People’s Mayor: An Authorized Biography of Mayor Harold Washington
. Chicago: Urban Research Press, 1989.
Washington, Harold. Climbing A Great Mountain: Selected Speeches of Mayor Harold Washington
. Commentary by Alton Miller. Foreword by Coretta Scott King. Chicago: Bonus Books, 1988.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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