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Presidential Medal of Freedom Awardee Abner J. Mikva Dies (Video)


CHICAGO–(ENEWSPSF)–July 5, 2016.  Abner J. Mikva, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama in 2014, died on July 4 in Chicago at age ninety.

Abner Mikva

Long known in Chicago and Washington political and legal circles as a liberal reform leader and a man of unassailable integrity, Abner J. Mikva successfully bucked Chicago’s Democratic political machine when he was elected to the Illinois state legislature in 1956 as an independent reform-minded Democrat, and later served as a Democratic congressman in the late 1960s and 70s.  In 1979, he was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and was the Court’s Chief Judge when he left to become White House Counsel for President Bill Clinton in 1994.  Since World War II, perhaps no other American has served at high levels in all three branches of the federal government.

Read Judge Mikva’s obituary

Source: http://www.mikvachallenge.org

Related Material:

Statement by the President on the Passing of Abner J. Mikva

Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov


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