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Author Dixon, Alan J

Title The gentleman from Illinois : stories from forty years of elective public service / Alan J. Dixon ; with a foreword by Taylor Pensoneau
Published Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 347 pages) : illustrations
Contents Foreword / Taylor Pensoneau -- Preface -- The Early Years -- Serving in the Illinois Statehouse -- An Illinois State Senator -- Treasurer and Secretary of State -- U.S. Senator Alan J. Dixon -- Going Home
Summary In 1993, Alan J. Dixon's political career came to an end with a defeat - the first one in his forty-three years of elected service. Beginning his legislative career in 1950 as a Democrat in the Illinois House of Representatives, Dixon also served in the Illinois State Senate, worked as state treasurer and secretary of state, and concluded his political career as a U.S. senator. This book is an insider's account of Illinois politics in the second half of the twentieth century, providing readers with fascinating stories about the people he encountered and events he participated in and witnessed during his four decades of service
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 335) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Dixon, Alan J
SUBJECT Dixon, Alan J. fast
Subject United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography
Illinois. General Assembly. Senate -- Biography
SUBJECT Illinois. General Assembly. Senate fast
United States. Congress. Senate fast
Subject Legislators -- United States -- Biography
Legislators -- Illinois -- Biography
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch.
Legislators
Politics and government
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140475
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-1993. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89000002
Illinois -- Politics and government -- 1951- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064311
Subject Illinois
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012044227
ISBN 9780809332618
0809332612
1299745571
9781299745575
9780809332601
0809332604