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Daley was named one of Illinois ' ten worst state legislators by Chicago Magazine " for arrogance, for sharklike qualities, for living off his father's name, and for pulling puppet strings attached to some of the worst members of the Senate.
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In the fifth, Wally Post slashed a 2-run homer off Bud Daley, but by that time the score was 11-5 and it really didn't matter.
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Mayor Richard J. Daley, a Democrat, was elected in 1955, in the era of machine politics.
Richard M. Daley, son of Richard J. Daley, was elected in 1989.
In 1975, as the character " Harvey Daley ," he was the last person killed on the series Gunsmoke ( in the antepenultimate episode, No. 633 – " The Busters ").
The team's ownership was badly undercapitalized ; Soriano had not been able to afford the franchise fee and had to ask Daley to help pay it.
Daley was Chicago's third mayor in a row from the working-class, heavily Irish American Bridgeport neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, where he lived his entire life.
Daley's Democratic political machine was often accused of corruption, but while many of Daley's subordinates were jailed, Daley was never formally charged with corruption.
Richard J. Daley was born in Bridgeport, a working-class neighborhood of Chicago.
He was the only child of Michael and Lillian Daley, whose families had both arrived from the Old Parish area, near Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland during the Great Famine.
Michael's father, James E. Daley, was a butcher born in New York, while his mother, Delia Gallagher Daley, was an Irish immigrant.
Before women obtained the right to vote in 1920, Lillian Daley was an active Suffragette, participating in marches.
Daley's career in politics began when he became a Democratic precinct captain ; although he was a lifelong Democrat, Daley was first elected to the Illinois House of Representatives as a Republican in 1936.
This was a matter of political opportunism and the peculiar setup for legislative elections in Illinois at the time, which allowed Daley to take the place on the ballot of the recently deceased Republican candidate David Shanahan.
After his election, Daley quickly moved back to the Democratic side of the aisle in 1938, when he was elected to the Illinois State Senate.
First elected mayor in 1955 with a modest victory margin of 125, 179 votes, Daley was re-elected to that office six times and had been mayor for 21 years at the time of his death.
Their eldest son, Richard M. Daley, was elected mayor of Chicago in 1989, and served in that position until his retirement in 2011.
The youngest son, William M. Daley, was President Obama's former White House Chief of Staff and former US Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton.
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A Tavern & Restaurant in Dunedin, New Zealand is named after the character Arthur Daley.
When asked by a journalist to list his three favorite things about Chicago, Siskel named Michael Jordan, Mayor Daley, and the Film Center.
In 1975, Mayor Richard J. Daley named him as the Democratic committeeman for Chicago's 23rd Ward, in the southwestern portion of the city — a post he still holds.
The main grandstand is named after Canberra Raiders and Australian rugby league player Mal Meninga, and a statue of another Raiders and Australian league representative Laurie Daley adorns the main grandstand entrance.
( Merriner 33 ) In 1955 his father lost his aldermanic seat after supporting an obscure City Clerk named Richard J. Daley for Mayor over a fellow Polish leader named Benjamin Adamowski.
On November 5, 2008, Daley was named to the advisory board of the Obama-Biden Transition Project.
On January 6, 2011 President Barack Obama named Daley as his next White House Chief of Staff, and he took office on January 13, 2011.
Daley took over the Canberra captaincy on a full-time basis after Stuart signed with Canterbury in 1999 and was once again named the Raiders ' player of the year.
In February 2008, Daley was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players ( 1908 – 2007 ) which was commissioned by the NRL and ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.
In August 2008, Daley was named at five-eight in the Indigenous Team of the Century.
Daley hired Klain for a senior position in the Gore campaign and then named him General Counsel of Gore's Recount Committee.
In 1989, when his brother Mayor-elect Richard Daley named Tim Degnan to his cabinet, John was able to move from the Illinois House of Representatives into Degnan's seat in the Illinois Senate that Degnan had assumed when Richard Daley went on to become Cook County states attorney nine years earlier.
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In 1972, Democratic nominee George McGovern threw Daley out of the Democratic National Convention ( replacing his delegation with one led by Jesse Jackson ).
Daley made one of his most memorable verbal missteps in 1968, while defending what the news media reported as police misconduct during that year's violent Democratic Convention.
* A week after his death, the former William J. Bogan Junior College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, was renamed as the Richard J. Daley College in his honor.
On March 15, 2010, Daley appointed two aldermen in one day, bringing to 19 the number of alderman initially appointed by Daley.
Having replaced all of the members in the party citywide who would not bend to his will, Daley set to the creation of one of the last political machines in the country.
On October 7, 1967, at a one thousand dollars a plate fundraiser for President Johnson ’ s reelection campaign, Daley and Johnson met together for a private meeting.
Daley also thought that one way to prevent demonstrators from coming to Chicago was to refuse to grant permits which would allow for people to protest legally.
" Gutiérrez received the endorsement of Mayor Richard M. Daley, and all but one of his opponents, Juan Soliz, dropped out of the race.
In order, Kelly, Kennelly and the elder Daley each succeeded one another followed by Bilandic who completed Daley's term beginning in 1976 and ending in 1979.
Stevenson was encouraged to run for President in 1976 by Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago, declined and was one of the finalists for Vice-President at the Democratic Convention that year.
This political machine proved to be one of the most durable in American history, even outlasting the Daley family machine in Chicago.
The jury were told by Nigel Sweeney QC that " we have to make you sure that Stone confessed " and so the jury tested the evidence of Damien Daley by actually visiting the cells in question where an extract from one of the Harry Potter stories was read out through the duct in the cell wall.
Heineman is noted in the history of Chicago, Illinois, for replacing all the steam locomotives which brought passenger trains into North Western Station with diesel locomotives, in one day in 1956, in response to a complaint by Mayor Richard J. Daley about smoke and fumes emanating from the station.
* Arthur Daley ' 22-New York Times columnist and 1956 Pulitzer Prize winner, one of only three sportswriters to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for journalism.
Cheverus came to assist Dominic Daley, one of his parishioners in Boston, at great personal risk, in his last days and he was present at the execution in 1806.
The Surveyor of the Fabric of St. Paul's Cathedral, who oversaw a 2004 cleaning of the cathedral that came under fire by Daley, retorted that " ArtWatch UK sounds very grand, but seems to be the view of one person.
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