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Rod R. Blagojevich (/ b l ə ˈ ɡ ɔɪ. ə v ɪ tʃ / blə-GOY-ə-vitch; born December 10, 1956), often referred to by his nickname "Blago", [2] [3] is an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009.
A federal judge this week channeled one of the most famous children’s authors of the last century in telling off ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich for his efforts to regain the right to run for ...
Under the Illinois Constitution, Fitzgerald rather than Senate President John Cullerton, presided because the accused was the governor. [115] Blagojevich was the sixteenth governor in the United States and the first Illinois governor to have been impeached. Seven of the fifteen impeached governors were removed from office. [116]
The capital bill, known as "Illinois Jobs Now!", was the first since Governor George H. Ryan's Illinois FIRST plan, which was enacted in the late-1990s. [49] On July 7, 2009, he for the second time in a week vetoed a budget bill, calling it "out of balance", his plan being to more significantly fix the budget gap in Illinois. [ 50 ]
Rod Blagojevich returned home to Chicago early Wednesday, shaking hands and signing autographs after President Donald Trump cut short the 14-year prison sentence handed to the former Illinois ...
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The governor is also the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. Since becoming a state in 1818, 43 people have served as governor of Illinois; before statehood, it had only one territorial governor, Ninian Edwards. The longest-serving governor was James R. Thompson, who was elected to four terms lasting 14 years, from 1977 to 1991.
Governor Office Crime(s) Investigation Notes Rod Blagojevich: Governor of Illinois Hobbs Act and mail fraud: Operation Board Games [7] Ray Blanton: Governor of Tennessee Hobbs Act and mail fraud [8] Edwin Edwards: Governor of Louisiana Hobbs Act, mail fraud, and RICO [9] David Hall: Governor of Oklahoma Hobbs Act and Travel Act [10] Otto Kerner ...