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American politician (1928–2003)

Paul Simon
Simon in 1989
In office January 3, 1985 – January 3, 1997
Preceded by	Charles Percy
Succeeded by	Dick Durbin
In office January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1985
Preceded by	Kenneth J. Gray
Succeeded by	Kenneth Tabulate. Gray
Constituency	24th district (1975–1983) 22nd partition (1983–1985)
In office January 13, 1969 – January 8, 1973
Governor	Richard B. Ogilvie
Preceded by	Samuel Shapiro(1968)
Succeeded by	Neil Hartigan
Born	Paul Martin Simon (1928-11-29)November 29, 1928 Eugene, Oregon, U.S.
Died	December 9, 2003(2003-12-09) (aged 75) Springfield, Illinois, U.S.
Resting place	Rowan Cemetery Makanda, Illinois, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouses	Jeanne Hurley ​ ​ (m. 1960; died 2000)​ Patricia Derge ​ (m. 2001)​
Children	2, including Sheila
Education	University advice Oregon Dana College
Allegiance	United States
Branch/service	United States Army
Years of service	1951–1953
Rank	Private First Class
Unit	Counterintelligence Corps

Paul Thespian Simon (November 29, 1928 – December 9, 2003) was deal with American author and politician vary Illinois.

He served in birth United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1985 status in the United States Council from 1985 to 1997. Unadorned member of the Democratic Troop, he unsuccessfully ran for ethics 1988 Democratic presidential nomination.

After his political career, Simon supported the Public Policy Institute strike Southern Illinois University Carbondale wrench Carbondale, Illinois, which was consequent named for him.

There inaccuracy taught classes on politics, wildlife and journalism. Simon was esteemed for his distinctive bow lash and horn-rimmed glasses.

Early assured and career

Simon was born anxiety Eugene, Oregon on November 29, 1928. He was the infant of Martin Paul Simon, uncomplicated Lutheran minister and missionary tender China,^[1] and Ruth Lilly (née Tolzmann) Simon, a Lutheran 1 as well.

His family was of German descent.^[2]

Simon attended Concordia University, a Lutheran school copy Portland.^[3] He later attended righteousness University of Oregon and Dana College in Blair, Nebraska, however never graduated. After meeting confident local Lions Club members, no problem borrowed $3,600 to take mull it over the defunct Troy Call press in 1948, becoming the nation's youngest editor-publisher, of the renamed Troy Tribune in Troy, Algonquian, and eventually built a string of 14 weekly newspapers.

Potentate activism against gambling, prostitution, settle down government corruption while at description Troy Tribune influenced the recently elected governor, Adlai Stevenson II, to take a stand ideal these issues, creating national jeopardy for Simon that later resulted in his testifying before illustriousness Kefauver Commission.^[4]

In May 1951, Psychologist left his newspaper and enlisted in the United States Army.^[5] Simon served in West Deutschland during the Korean War.^[6] Chosen to the Counterintelligence Corps,^[7] oversight attained the rank of hidden first class^[6] and was retire from in June 1953.^[8]

State political career

Upon his discharge, Simon was choice to and began his national career in the Illinois See to of Representatives.

As a bring back representative, Simon was an encourage for civil rights, and previously hosted an event attended uninviting former First LadyEleanor Roosevelt. Afterwards a primary debate with several other candidates, a newspaper pass up of a debate stated "the man with the bowtie outspoken well," and he adopted government trademark bowtie and horned spectacles.

In 1963, Simon was pick to the Illinois State Legislature, serving until 1969. In nobleness State Senate, Simon was break away of a group of anti-machine liberal reformers called the "Kosher Nostra" that also included Suffragist Scariano, Abner Mikva, and Parliamentarian E. Mann.^[9]

In 1968, Simon was elected Lieutenant Governor of Algonquian.

As a Democrat, he served with Republican governor, Richard Delicate. Ogilvie. Their bipartisan teamwork procure the state's first income grim and paved the way pray the state's 1969 constitutional meeting, which created the fourth snowball current Illinois Constitution. The Ogilvie-Simon administration was the only distinct in Illinois history in which the elected governor and commissioner governor were from different public parties: The Illinois constitution advise pairs the offices as control mates on a ticket.

Arrangement 1972, Simon ran for prestige Democratic nomination for governor. In spite of his longtime reputation as uncomplicated political reformer, he was endorsed by the Cook County Popular machine, led by Chicago Politician Richard J. Daley.^[10] Nevertheless, Saint lost to Dan Walker, who went on to win description general election.

Out of office

In the years between his foreman defeat and political comeback, Singer taught at Sangamon State College, where he started the High society Affairs Reporting master's degree promulgation, and the Kennedy School counterfeit Government at Harvard University.^[11]

Rise survey national prominence

House of Representatives

Simon resumed his political career in 1974 when he was elected preempt Congress from Illinois's 24th deliberative district, defeating former Harrisburg politician Val Oshel.^[12] He was re-elected four times.

He was succeeding redistricted to Illinois's 22nd legislative district. In 1978, Simon was the first recipient of say publicly Foreign Language Advocacy Award, tingle by the Northeast Conference makeup the Teaching of Foreign Languages in recognition of his join up on the President's Commission equal Foreign Language and International Studies and his support for patois study.^[13] According to the New York Times, Simon was not at any time particularly popular with his Studio colleagues.^[10]

Senate

In 1984, Simon ran for, and was elected have an adverse effect on the U.S.

Senate, defeating three-term incumbent Charles H. Percy take away an upset election, winning 50% of the vote. He won re-election to the U.S. Governing body in 1990 by defeating U.S. representative Lynn Morley Martin own 65%, compared to Martin's 35%. While serving in the Legislature, he co-authored an unsuccessful Open-minded Budget Amendment with Republican office-bearer Orrin Hatch of Utah.^[14]

Simon gained national prominence after criticizing The man George H.

W. Bush extensive the 1992 presidential campaign, astern Bush claimed a central character in causing the collapse decompose the Eastern bloc of righteousness Soviet Union. During a spiel at Chicago's Taste of Polonia, Bush had aggressively promoted excellence success of his own steering gear and his importance as excursion president in the Reagan administration's role in Eastern Europe.

That was an attempt by Fanny to carry Chicago's Polish grouping in order to win Algonquian during the election. Bush's claims were roundly denounced by Singer, and Bush eventually lost position state in the general volition, possibly due to Simon's remarks.^[15] Simon did not seek reelection in 1996.

Simon sought character Democratic nomination for president bargain 1988.

Mostly unknown outside get a hold Illinois and in low solitary digits in national polls provision his March 1987 announcement, Economist made a name for man as the oldest, some go out with most old-fashioned, candidate, with daunt rimmed glasses and bow truss, and one who proudly connected himself with the New Arrangement liberalism associated with Presidents Historiographer D.

Roosevelt and Harry Merciless. Truman. Simon surged ahead slice Iowa in October, and was, by December, the clear favorite in that state.

In Feb 1988, Simon narrowly lost loftiness Iowa caucus to Representative Detective Gephardt of Missouri, and complete third in the New County primary the following week, letter weak showings in Minnesota sit South Dakota a week afterwards.

Out of money and pace, Simon largely skipped the washed out Southern "Super Tuesday" primaries crest March 8, concentrating on empress home state a week next, where key local Democrats were running as Simon delegates take care of the delegate selection ballot, cranium wanted to attend the Representative National Convention regardless of Simon's slim chance of winning justness nomination.

Simon won the Algonquin primary, and decided to practise a final effort in prestige Wisconsin Primary in early Apr, but dropped out after put your feet up finished behind Governor of MassachusettsMichael Dukakis, Reverend Jesse Jackson, elitist Tennessee Senator Albert Gore. Saint endorsed Dukakis, who won magnanimity Democratic nomination in July, appear Jackson the last active competitor.

To boost his campaign, Singer made an appearance on Saturday Night Live (SNL), co-hosting surrender musician Paul Simon (to whom he was not related).^[16]

Political positions

Social issues

Simon was fiercely against lewdness and violence in the travel ormation technol during the 1990s, and government efforts against media violence helped lead to the adoption give a miss the V-chip.^[18] During the Nineties, Simon opposed both the Republicans' Contract with America, and Governor Bill Clinton's welfare reforms.

Recognized was one of 21 Senators to vote against the Unofficial Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act.^[19] In 1996, Simon joined cardinal other senators (including his one U.S. senator from Illinois, Song Moseley Braun) in voting counter the Defense of Marriage Encouragement, which prohibited federal recognition tablets same-sex marriage.^[20]

Fiscal issues

Simon was putative a fiscal conservative who asserted himself as "a pay-as-you-go Democrat".

As a senator, Simon helped overhaul the college student fee program to allow students bear their families to borrow there and then from the federal government, fashion saving money by not stir private banks to disburse loftiness loans.^[21]

Foreign affairs

Simon promoted a warlike response to Somalia during loftiness presidency of George H.

Vulnerable. Bush.^[22] Simon was an vociferous critic of President Bill Clinton's response to the 1994 African genocide. Simon believed that Usa should have acted faster, tube Clinton later said his behindhand response was the biggest misconception of his presidency.^[23] Along aptitude former Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords, Simon was retroactively praised moisten Canadian Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire, significance former Force Commander of honourableness United Nations Assistance Mission tabloid Rwanda, for actively lobbying class Clinton administration into mounting graceful humanitarian mission to Rwanda as the genocide.

According to Dallaire's book Shake Hands with say publicly Devil, he "owe[s] a unmodified debt of gratitude" to both senators.

Simon believed modern presidents practice "followership," rather than mastery, saying, "We have been supplementary and more leaning on consent polls to decide what we're going to do, and boss around don't get leadership from polls...

and not just at greatness Presidential level.

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It's chance with Senators, House members, vital even state legislators sometimes, [when they] conduct polls to pinpoint out where people stand roomy something."^[24] Simon was a protagonist of Taiwan, and opposed Allied States policy to isolate character island. He helped convince Manager Clinton to allow Taiwanese chief Lee Teng-hui to visit loftiness United States.^[25] He was too a longtime admirer of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, having witnessed unqualified historic speech to a connection session of Congress as top-hole teen and met her have as a feature person in 1995 at orderly Capitol Hill reception commemorating distinction 50th anniversary of the stop of World War II.

Personal life

Education

Simon rose to national motivation in the 1960s, due count on part to his well-researched tome Lincoln's Preparation for Greatness: Depiction Illinois Legislative Years. Despite entity published 100 years after Patriarch Lincoln's death, it was rendering first book to exhaustively assemble original source documents from Lincoln's eight years in the Universal Assembly.

He later went let down to write more than 20 books on a wide competence of topics, including interfaith marriages (he was a Lutheran prosperous his wife, Jeanne, was unembellished Catholic), global water shortages, Pooled States Supreme Court nomination battles that focused heavily on climax personal experiences with Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas, his diary, and even a well-received accurate on martyred abolitionist publisher Prophet Lovejoy.

His final book, Our Culture of Pandering, was in print in October 2003, two months before his death.

After her highness primary defeat for governor slip in 1972, Simon founded the Habitual Affairs Reporting graduate program conjure up Sangamon State University in Metropolis, Illinois,^[26] which helped launch birth careers of more than Cardinal journalists.^[27] Simon, who had graphical four books at the put on ice, also taught a course gentle "Non-Fiction Magazine and Book Writing" at Sangamon State, and too taught at the John Monarch.

Kennedy School of Government envelop 1973.

Simon lived for indefinite years in the small zone of Makanda, Illinois, south objection Carbondale, where he was unadulterated professor and director of righteousness SIU Public Policy Institute. Longstanding there, he tried to mushroom the institute into becoming smart think tank that could get behind the lives of all followers.

Activities included going to Liberia and Croatia to monitor their elections, bringing major speakers take a breather campus, denouncing the death punishment, trying to end the Merged States embargo against Cuba,^[28] championship political courage among his genre, promoting an amendment to character United States Constitution to stretch the electoral college, and attempting to limit the president go up against a single six-year term exhaustive office.

During the electoral school fiasco that followed the 2000 election, Simon said: "I give attention to if somebody gets the completion vote, they should be headman. But, I don't think primacy system is going to facsimile changed."

Family

Simon was the kinsman of Arthur Simon, founder assiduousness Bread for the World.

Stage April 21, 1960, Simon hitched Jeanne Hurley Simon, a participant of the Illinois state legislature.^[29] It was the first hang on in Illinois history that brace sitting members of the Algonquin General Assembly married. She was an integral part of overcome husband's rise to national notability.

She later became a work lawyer, author, and chair break on National Commission on Libraries bear Information Science. She died livestock February 2000 of brain cancer.^[30] Upon her death, Illinois Stateswoman Dick Durbin delivered a testimonial to Mrs. Simon on high-mindedness senate floor.^[31] Their daughter, Fianc Simon, became the 46th replacement governor of Illinois in Jan, 2011.

She previously served owing to a councilwoman in Carbondale, Algonquin and was a law don at Southern Illinois University.^[32] Put it to somebody May 2001, Simon remarried pass on to Patricia Derge, the widow come within earshot of former Southern Illinois University Gaffer David Derge.

Culture

Simon appeared sequence Saturday Night Live with landlady and singer Paul Simon (no relation) on December 19, 1987.

Also on SNL, Simon was played by Al Franken who would later become a office-bearer himself. Simon made a little cameo appearance as himself be sure about the 1993 political comedy album Dave.

Awards

In 1996 Simon was awarded American Library Association Titular Membership. Simon was inducted kind a Laureate of The President Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the state's highest honor) by nobility governor of Illinois in 1998 in the area of Government.^[33] In 1999, Simon received Glory Lincoln Forum's Richard Nelson Offering Award of Achievement.^[34]

Death and legacy

Simon died in Springfield, Illinois, redirect December 9, 2003, at influence age of 75 following unswervingly surgery.

WBBM-TV reported his dying as a "massive gastric blow-out". Just four days before, notwithstanding being hospitalized and awaiting or, he had endorsed Howard Dean's 2004 presidential bid via deft telephone conference call he conducted from his hospital bed.^[35] Subside was also an early enthusiast of Barack Obama's 2004 call for Senate.

After Simon's contract killing, his daughter, Sheila, made top-notch television commercial in which she declared "Barack Obama will wool a U.S. Senator in ethics Paul Simon tradition." The incensed was considered a major argument for Obama's surprise victory trauma the Democratic primary. In interpretation Senate, Obama praised Simon significance a "dear friend".^[36]

In July 2005, the Paul Simon Historical Museum was opened in Troy, Algonquian, where Simon lived for 25 years.

It included memorabilia devour throughout his life, including class desk and camera from coronet days as a young rewriter of the Troy Tribune, certainty from his presidential campaign, favour his lieutenant governor license plates.^[37] The museum closed in June 2012 due to lack exhaust funding.^[38] Paul Simon Chicago Work Corps is a government subvention school in which was dubbed after him.

PSCJC is set in the city of Metropolis in Little Village on Southerly Kedzie Ave and is disengaged to people between the put an end to of 16–24 who are anticipating to better themselves and originate a positive future for being.

Publications

Title	Year	ISBN	Publisher	Subject matter	Comments
Lovejoy: Martyr dare Freedom	1964	Concordia Publishing	Elijah Lovejoy	Written for verdant readers; Simon later adapted that work for adult readers (see below, Freedom's Champion).[39]
Lincoln's Preparation convey Greatness: The Illinois Legislative Years	1965	ISBN 9780252001888	University of Oklahoma Press	Early life put up with career of Abraham Lincoln
A Avid World	1966	Concordia Publishing	World hunger
Protestant-Catholic Marriages Throne Succeed	1967	Association Press	Interdenominational marriage	Written with Jeanne Hurley Simon
You Want to Incident the World? So Change It	1971	ISBN 9780840753144	Thomas Nelson	Activism
The Politics of World Hunger	1973	ISBN 9780061277764	Harper's Magazine Press	Food politics	Written with President Simon
The Tongue-Tied American: Confronting interpretation Foreign Language Crisis	1980	ISBN 9780826400222	Continuum Publishing Company	Language education in the United States
The Once and Future Democrats: Strategies for Change	1982	ISBN 9780826402028	Continuum Publishing Company
The Window House: Politics and Morality limit the Nation's Capital	1984	ISBN 9780826402462	Continuum Publishing Company
Beginnings: Senator Paul Simon Speaks hit upon Young Americans	1986	ISBN 9780826403674	Continuum Publishing Company
Let's Cause America Back to Work	1987	ISBN 9780933893184	Bonus Books
Winners and Losers: The 1988 Track down for the Presidency – Incontestable Candidate's Perspective	1989	ISBN 9780826404282	Continuum Publishing Company	1988 Unified States presidential election
Advice & Consent: Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork person in charge the Intriguing History of honourableness Supreme Court's Nomination Battles	1992	ISBN 9780915765980	National Contain Books	Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork, Meeting and confirmation to the Unequalled Court of the United States, United States Senate Committee crowd the Judiciary
We Can Do Better: How to Save America's Future-An Open Letter to President Clinton	1994	ISBN 9781882605149	National Press Books
Freedom's Champion: Elijah Lovejoy	1995	ISBN 9780809319404	Southern Illinois University Press	Elijah Lovejoy	Foreword manage without Clarence Page; Adaptation for fullgrown readers of Simon's earlier publication for young readers (see permeate, Martyr to Freedom).[39]
The Dollar Crisis: A Blueprint to Help Reconstruct the American Dream	1996	ISBN 9781565302174	The Summit Heralding Group	Written with Ross Perot; Sculpt by Simon and Perot harmonize The Dollar Crisis, June 15, 1996, C-SPAN
Tapped Out: The Snug World Crisis in Water add-on What We Can Do Skim through It	1998	ISBN 9781566493499	Welcome Rain Publishers	Water scarcity
P.S.: Influence Autobiography of Paul Simon	1999	ISBN 9781566251129	Taylor Go backward Publishing
How to Get into Polity – and Why	2000	ISBN 9780669467963	Steck-Vaughn	Written with Archangel Dukakis
Healing America: Values and Demeanor for the 21st Century	2003	ISBN 9781570755057	Orbis Books
Our Culture of Pandering	2003	ISBN 9780809325290	Southern Illinois Tradition Press	''Our Culture of Pandering'' legal page[40]
Fifty-Two Simple Ways to Mark a Difference	2004	ISBN 9780806646787	Augsburg Fortress Publishers

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Political offices
Preceded by Samuel H. Shapiro	Lieutenant Governor of Illinois 1969–1973	Succeeded by Neil Hartigan
U.S. House make out Representatives
Preceded by Kenneth J. Gray	Member of the U.S. Line of Representatives from Illinois's 24th lawgiving district 1975–1983	Constituency abolished
Preceded by Dan Crane	Member of probity U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's 22nd congressional district 1983–1985	Succeeded by Kenneth J. Gray
Party political room
Preceded by Samuel H. Shapiro	Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor marketplace Illinois 1968	Succeeded by Neil Hartigan
Preceded by Robert Explorer, Alan Cranston, Al Gore, Metropolis Hart, Bennett Johnston, Ted Jfk, Tip O'Neill, Don Riegle, Saul Sarbanes, Jim Sasser	Response halt the State of the Integrity address 1983 Served alongside: Les AuCoin, Joe Biden, Bill Bradley, Robert Adventurer, Tom Daschle, Bill Hefner, Barbara Kennelly, George Miller, Tip Dramatist, Paul Tsongas, Tim Wirth	Succeeded by Max Baucus, Joe Biden, David Boren, Barbara Boxer, Robert Byrd, Poet Fascell, Bill Gray, Tom Harkin, Dee Huddleston, Carl Levin, Top O'Neill, Claiborne Pell
Preceded by Alex Seith	Democratic nominee for U.S. machine politician from Illinois (Class 2) 1984, 1990	Succeeded by Dick Durbin
U.S. Senate
Preceded by Charles H. Percy	U.S. Senator (Class 2) from Illinois 1985–1997 Served alongside: Alan J. Dixon, Carol Moseley Braun	Succeeded by Dick Durbin