Bill Text: IL HR0319 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Mourns the death of George M. Burditt Jr. of LaGrange Park, former Illinois State Representative.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-05-22 - Resolution Adopted [HR0319 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HR0319-Introduced.html

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HOUSE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of George
Miller Burditt Jr. of LaGrange Park, former Illinois State
Representative, who passed away on March 12, 2013; and
WHEREAS, George Burditt Jr. was born on Chicago's west
side; he grew up in LaGrange and was valedictorian of the class
of 1940 at Lyons Township High School; he played basketball and
was later elected to the school's hall of fame and the Illinois
Basketball Hall of Fame; he received a bachelor's degree from
Harvard, where he was also on the basketball team, while
serving in the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1944; after the war, he
obtained his law degree from Harvard; he married Barbara
Stenger in 1945; and
WHEREAS, George Burditt Jr. worked for Swift & Co. and in
1969 started the law firm of Burditt & Calkins, which focused
on food and drug law; and
WHEREAS, George Burditt Jr. was an attorney, former
president of the Chicago Bar Association, general counsel for
the Food and Drug Law Institute, and a longtime adjunct
professor in food and drug law at Northwestern University's law
school from 1967-1997; and

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WHEREAS, George Burditt Jr. got involved in politics in the
1950s after moving to Western Springs; he was on the village
plan commission, became a campaign manager for the Lyons
Township Republican organization, and was vice-chairman of a
group of Dwight Eisenhower supporters; he served as an Illinois
State Representative in the 1960s and 1970s, serving 4 terms
and achieving the level of assistant majority leader; after
leaving the Illinois House of Representatives, he was appointed
to the State ethics board and to the Illinois Liquor Control
Commission; in March 1974, he was elected as Lyons Township GOP
committeeman; and
WHEREAS, George Burditt Jr. was preceded in death by his
first wife, Barbara, who died in 2001; and
WHEREAS, George Burditt Jr. is survived by his second wife,
Mary Jane Mallery, whom he married in 2008; his daughters
Barbara Perry, Betsey Blessing, and Deborah; his son, George M.
III; his 11 grandchildren; and his 6 great-grandchildren;
therefore, be it
RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
we mourn the passing of George Burditt Jr., and extend our
sincere condolences to his family, friends, and all who knew

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and loved him; and be it further
RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
presented to the family George Burditt Jr. as an expression of
our deepest sympathy.