File #: 22-3930    Version: 1 Name: John Edward Porter Resolution
Type: Consent Calendar Resolution Status: Approved
File created: 6/10/2022 In control: Board of Commissioners
On agenda: 6/16/2022 Final action: 6/16/2022
Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION HONORING THE LIFE AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE HONORABLE JOHN EDWARD PORTER WHEREAS, John Edward Porter, a Republican Congressman from Illinois' 10th congressional district, died on June 3, 2022 following a brief hospitalization. He was born June 1, 1935 in Evanston, Illinois and graduated from Evanston Township High School in 1953. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years before graduating with a B.A. from Northwestern University in 1957. He subsequently earned his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School. Porter was an honor law graduate attorney with the U.S. Justice Department in the Kennedy Administration before entering private practice in Evanston in 1963. A military veteran, he served in the Army Reserves from 1958 to 1964; and WHEREAS, Porter came from a family steeped in public service. His father, the Hon. Harry H. Porter served for many years as Chief Judge of the Evanston Municipal Court. Porter was elected to the Illi...
Sponsors: LARRY SUFFREDIN, TONI PRECKWINKLE (President), FRANK J. AGUILAR, ALMA E. ANAYA, LUIS ARROYO JR, SCOTT R. BRITTON, JOHN P. DALEY, DENNIS DEER, BRIDGET DEGNEN, BRIDGET GAINER, BRANDON JOHNSON, BILL LOWRY, DONNA MILLER, STANLEY MOORE, KEVIN B. MORRISON, SEAN M. MORRISON, PETER N. SILVESTRI, DEBORAH SIMS
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PROPOSED RESOLUTION

HONORING THE LIFE AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE HONORABLE JOHN EDWARD PORTER

WHEREAS, John Edward Porter, a Republican Congressman from Illinois' 10th congressional district, died on June 3, 2022 following a brief hospitalization. He was born June 1, 1935 in Evanston, Illinois and graduated from Evanston Township High School in 1953. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years before graduating with a B.A. from Northwestern University in 1957. He subsequently earned his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School. Porter was an honor law graduate attorney with the U.S. Justice Department in the Kennedy Administration before entering private practice in Evanston in 1963. A military veteran, he served in the Army Reserves from 1958 to 1964; and

WHEREAS, Porter came from a family steeped in public service. His father, the Hon. Harry H. Porter served for many years as Chief Judge of the Evanston Municipal Court. Porter was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives from 1973 until 1979. While in Springfield, he was successful in passing legislation creating government inducements to carpooling; denying pension rights to public officials convicted of a felony; prohibiting flammable tents and outdoor-use fabrics; and requiring disclosure of secret beneficiaries of land trusts involved in business with state government; and

WHEREAS, Porter was elected to Congress in 1980 where he served until 2001. During his tenure, Porter became one of the powerful "cardinals" in Congress who served on the United States House Committee on Appropriations and chaired a key appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health & Human Services and Education, and Related Agencies. Under his subcommittee's jurisdiction were all the health programs and agencies except U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and all of the education programs ...

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