Illinois lineup for the U.S. House

*Incumbents
Note: The numbers following the candidate biographies refer to specific views that a candidate expressed in response to a general question on the state's economic condition. The numbers correspond to the categories outlined in " Fiscal views from the candidates " on page 22.

1st District
Democrat
*Ralph H. Metealfe, 65, Chicago, full-time legislator. He competed in two Olympic games, winning silver and gold medals in Los Angeles in 1932, and receiving a silver medal in 1936 in Berlin, along with a gold medal for a winning relay team that included Jesse Owens. He has served as 3rd ward committeeman (1952-72) and alderman (1955-71); president pro tempore, Chicago City Council (1969); director. Department of Civil Rights for the Commission on Human Relations (1945), and as congressman since 1970. His organizational memberships include the Cosmopolitan Chamber of Commerce, Commission on Youth Welfare, Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission and the Chicago State University Foundation. (1,5)

Republican
A. A. Rayner, Jr., 57, Chicago, funeral director. He was a Chicago alderman, 6th ward, from 1967-71. (1)

2nd District
Democrat
*Morgan Murphy, 44, Chicago, attorney. He has served as a hearing officer. Local Liquor Control Commission; special attorney, Board of Election Commissioners; administrative assistant to the clerk of the circuit court, and congressman since 1970. He is a member of the Illinois Trial Lawyers' Association.

Republican
Spencer Leak, Chicago

3rd District
Democrat
*Martin A. Russo, 32, South Holland, attorney. He has served as a former assistant state's attorney in Cook County, law clerk to Judge John McCormack on the Illinois Appellate Court and congressman since 1974. His honors include a distinguished service award from the Chicago Patrolmen's Association.

Republican
Ronald Buikema, 36, South Holland, attorney. He has served as president. South Suburban Bar Association; village attorney and prosecutor, Village of South Holland; precinct captain, Thornton Township Regular Republican Organization, and fourth Congressional district governor, Illinois Young Republican Organization (1966). (1,2,3,4,5)

4th District
Democrat
Ronald A. Rodger, 31, Tinley Park, teacher. He has served as an alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention (1972), aide to Congressman Martin A. Russo (D., 3rd), and State Rep. Leland Rayson (D., Tinley Park), and as a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference (1971). (1,2,3,4,5)

Republican
*Edward J. Derwinski, 50, Flossmoor, full-time legislator. A congressman since 1958, he has also served as congressional delegate to the United Nations General Assembly (1971); state representative, Illinois General Assembly (1957-58), and secretary of the U.S. delegation to the Inter parliamentary Union.

5th District
Democrat
B, Chicago, real estate and insurance broker. He was appointed to Congress to fill the term of the late John C. Kluczynski. He had previously served 11 terms in the Illinois House of Representatives.

Republican
Vincent S. Krok, Chicago.

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6th District
Democrat
Marilyn D. Clancy, 38, Oak Park, teacher. She has served as convenor, Illinois Democratic Women's Caucus; uncommitted delegate to the National Democratic Nominating Convention (1972); member. State Democratic Platform Committee; vice president. United Democrats of Oak Park; campaign manager, McGovern-Shriver presidential campaign in the Oak Park area, and member, League of Women Voters. (1.2)

Republican
*Henry J. Hyde, 51, Park Ridge, attorney. He has served as a state representative, Illinois General Assembly (1967-74); president. Trial Lawyers Club of Chicago, and congressman since 1974. (1, 2)

7th District
Democrat .
* Cardiss Collins, 45, Chicago, full-time legislator. Elected to Congress in 1973 to fill the unexpired term of her late husband, George W. Collins, she has also served as committeewoman for the 24th ward. vice president of the Lawndale Youth Commission, and board member of the Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission.

8th District
Democrat
* Daniel D. Rostenkowski, Chicago, full-time legislator. Elected to Congress in 1958, he has also served in the Illinois General Assembly as both representative and senator, and as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention (1960, 1964, 1968, and 1972). His honors include the 1972 National Recreation and Park Association's Congressional Award and appointment as Presidential representative at the Poland International Trade Fair (1973).

Republican
John F. Urbaszewski, 63, Chicago, property control inspector. He is a member of the 33rd Ward Regular Republican Organization, East Humboldt Park Planning and Conservation Community Commission, and the American Association of Retired Persons. (1, 3, 4)

9th District
Democrat
* Sidney R. Yates, Chicago, attorney. First elected to Congress in 1948, he has also served as the U.S. representative to the Trusteeship Council of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations (1963).

Republican
Thomas Joseph Wajerski, 31, Chicago, businessman and pilot. He served in the U.S. Army as a helicopter pilot. (1,3)

10th District
Democrat
* Abner J. Mikva, 50, Evanston, full-time legislator. He has served as clerk, U.S. Supreme Court (1951- 52); state representative, Illinois General Assembly (1956-66), and congressman from the 2nd district (1969-72) and 10th district (1974 to present). (1)

Republican
Samuel H. Young, Glenview, attorney. He has served as Illinois assistant secretary of state, state securities commissioner, attorney with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the U.S. representative from the 10th district (1972-74).

11th District
Democrat
*Frank Annunzio, 61, Chicago, full-time legislator. Prior to his Congressional election in 1964, he had served as director, Illinois Department of Labor (1949-52), and as a teacher in the Chicago public school system. (1)

Republican
Daniel C. Reber, 38, Chicago, associate professor of political science. He has served as an assistant to U.S.Rep. (now Sen.) Charles Mathias, Jr. (R., Maryland) and precinct volunteer, 5th and 35th wards (1961 to present).

12th District
Democrat
Edwin L. Frank, 46, Hoffman Estates, manufacturers'representative. He has served as Hoffman Estates ParkDistrict commissioner (1967-69) and member of theHoffman Estates Youth Commission and the Bayonne, New Jersey Urban Redevelopment Committee. He is now serving his sixth term as parliamentarian for theSchaumburg Township Regular Democratic Organization. (1, 2, 5)

Congressional Districts

Republican
* Philip M. Crane, 45, Mount Prospect, full-time legislator. First elected to Congress in 1969, he also served as trustee of Hinsdale College: director, Intercollegiate Studies institute and the American Conservative Union and advisory board member, Young American for Freedom. Crane has also been the Republican Party's public relations consultants (1962), direct or of research (of the Illinois Gold water organization (1964) and author of The Democrat's Dilemma (1964) (1, 3, 4)

13th District
Democrat
James J. Cummings, Barrington

Republican
*Robert McClory, 68. Lake Bluff, attorney and full-time legislator. Prior to his election so Congress in 1972, be served two years in the Illinois House of Representatives(1950-52) and 10 years in the Illinois Senate (1952-62). He is a member of The Law Club.

14th District
Democrat
Marie Agnes Fese, Elmhurst, railroad clerk and college student. She has served as a consultant to Midwestern universities on expanded adult education programs, teacher, Chicago BRAC Job Corps Center, ManpowerTraining department; secretary, Addison Township Democratic Organization; alternate regional vice president, Coalition of Labor Union Women, and executive board member, Illinois Labor History Society.

Republican
*John Ertenbora, 49, Glen Ellyn, attorney. Before his election to Congress in 1965, he was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1957-65) and an assistant state's attorney for DuPage County (1950-52).

15th District
Democrat
* Tim L. Hall, 50 Dwight, full-time legislator. He has served as training coordinator as the William Fox Children's Center, a state facility for severely retardedchildren; educational consultant for a publishing company; teacher, and congressman since 1974. (1, 2, 5)

Republican
Tom Corcoran, 37, Ottawa, vice president of the Chicago and North Western Railroad. He has served as legislative assistant to former Illinois Senate president W. R. Arrington (R., Evanston) from 1966-69, staff director for former Senate president William C. Harris (R., Pantiac) from 1973-74 and director of the State of Illinois Office in Washington, D.C., under former Gov. Richard Ogilvie(1969-72). (1,4)

16th District
Republican
*John B. Anderson, 54, Rockford, full-time legislator. He has served as a state's attorney in Winnebago County(1956-60), member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. and congressman since 1960. (2)

17th District
Democrat
Merlin Karlock, Momence, agri-businessman and banker. He has served as vice chairman of the Illinois Community College Board; alternate member, Board of Higher Education; executive committee board member, University Retirement Board, and trustee to Kankakee Community College Other organizational memberships include the Farm Bureau. Chamber of' Commerce Citizens Advisory Committee of the University of Illinois. and advisory board member of the schools Department of Agriculture.

Republican
*George M. O'Brien, Joliet, attorney. A congressman since 1973, he also served as state representative (1971-73), and member of the Will County Board of Supervisors(1956-64), Legislative Advisory Committee to theNortheeastern Illinois Planning Commission and Trial Lawyers Association of Illinois. (1,3)

18th District
Democrat
Matthew Ryan, 49, Washington, merchandising vice president (1,2)

* Incumbents

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Republican
*Robert H. Michel, 54, Peoria, full time legislator. He has served as an administrative assistant to former U.S. Rep. Harold Velde (R., 18th) delegate to several Republican national conventions, chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee and congressman since 1956. (1)

19tb District
Democrat
John Craver, London Mills, small businessman and farmer. (1,3)

Republican
*Tom Railsback, 44.Moline, attorney election to Congress in 1966, he served as state representative (1962-66). In 1974 he was honored for his design of the nation first comprehensive juvenile justice legislation by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. (1,4,5)

20th District
Democrat
Peter Mack, 59, Springfield, businessman and consultant. He had served in Congress for 14 years.

Republican
*Paul Findley, 54, Pittsfield, legislator and publisher. He has served as trustee, Illinois College, past director and member, Illinois Press Association; director. Federal Union Inc.; member, American Association International Law and Intentional Movement for Atlantic Union, and congressman since 1960. (1)

21st District
Democrat
Anna Wall Scott, Urbana, college professor and psychiatric social worker. The first woman elected to the Democratic State Central Committee (1974), she is vice chairman of the Stale Democratic Party in Illinois, member of the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Committee, and executive board member of the National Democratic State Chairman's Association. She is also a member of the League of Women Voters and the Illinois Sociological Society. (2.3,4,5)

Republican
*Edward R. Madigan, 40, Lincoln, former self employed businessman. He has served as a district governor. Young Republican Federation of Illinois: member, Zoning Board of Appeals, state representative for six years, and congressman since 1972.

22nd District
Democrat
*George E. Shipley, 49. Olney, full-time legislator. Prior to his election as U.S. representative in 1958, he had served as chief deputy sheriff (1950-54) and sheriff (1954- 58) of Richland County.

Republican
Ralph Y. McGinnis, Charleston, professor of speech and communications at Eastern Illinois University. He was honored by the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge with the George Washington Medal of Honor in American Public Address for his speech on Abraham Lincoln before the Montana state legislature.

23rd District
Democrat
*Melvin Price, 71, East St. Louis, full-time legislator. He has served on the St.Clair County Board of Supervisors(1929-31), as secretary to former Congressman Edwin M.Schaefer, a newspaper correspondent and congressman since 1944.

Republican
Sam P. Drenovac, Granite City.

24th District
Democrat
*Paul Simon, 47, Carbondale congressman and writer. He has served as a state representative (1955-63), state senator (1963-69) and lieutenant governor of Illinois (1969-73 before being elected to Congress in 1974 Simon, formerly a newspaper publisher, was also a professor at Sangamon State University in Springfield (1)

Republican
Peter G. Prineas, 48, Carbondal, a self-employed consulting engineer and author of Get Those Taxes Off My Back. He is a member of the Carbondal Electrical Board and is registered as a professional engineer in lllinois, Indiana and Missouri. (1, 4, 5)

Note: the members following the candidate biographies refer to specific views that a candidate expressed in response to a general question on the state's economic condition. The numbers correspond to the categories outlined in " Fiscal views from the candidates " on page 22.

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