Dick Durbin
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About
US Senator from Illinois who became the Senate Majority Whip, the second highest position in the Democratic Party leadership in the Senate, in 2007.
Before Fame
He obtained his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1969 before becoming the legal counsel to Lieutenant Governor Paul Simon from 1969 to 1972.
Trivia
He was one of the first politicians to introduce a bill into the House that would ban cigarette smoking on airplanes.
Family Life
He had three children with his wife Loretta Schaefer.
Associated With
He urged Rod Blagojevich to resign and not name a successor to
