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"Edward Rowan Finnegan (June 5, 1905 - February 2, 1971) was an attorney and politician from Illinois. He served as a member of the U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1961 to 1964 and a judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County from 1964 until his death. Biography Finnegan was born in Chicago and attended the parochial schools. He graduated from St. Rita High School, and attended Loyola University Chicago and Northwestern University Law School. Finnegan graduated from DePaul University with a LL.B. degree in 1930. He was admitted to the bar in 1931 and practiced in Chicago. In 1939, Finnegan unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for municipal court judge. In 1945, he was appointed an assistant state's attorney for Cook County, and served until 1956. He served as an assistant city corporation counsel from 1956 to 1957. In 1960, Finnegan was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Illinois' 12th district. After redistricting, he was reelected from the 9th district in 1962. He served from January 1961 until resigning in December 1964. Finnegan ran in the newly-configured 9th district in 1962 because incumbent Sidney R. Yates won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator. In the general election, Yates was unsuccessful in his campaign against Republican incumbent Everett Dirksen. Finnegan was renominated for the US House in April 1964. Later that month, he nearly drowned while swimming at the Lake Shore Club. A lifeguard administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation for several minutes before he regained consciousness, and he was hospitalized for several days. Finnegan decided later in 1964 that he preferred to serve as a judge, while Yates desired to return to the U.S. House. In October 1964, Finnegan resigned the U.S. House nomination. Yates was chosen as his replacement and easily won the November election. Finnegan was nominated for judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County. He won his November 1964 election, then resigned from Congress shortly before the expiration of his term. Finnegan served on the bench from December 1964 until his death. Finnegan died at a Chicago hospital on February 2, 1971. He was buried at All Saints Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum in Des Plaines, Illinois. Family Finnegan's first wife, Katherine, died in 1961. They were the parents of three daughters -- Sara, Moira, and Kathleen. In 1964, Finnegan married Iris McCreevey, who survived him. References External links * Category:1905 births Category:1971 deaths Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois Category:Politicians from Chicago Category:Loyola University Chicago alumni Category:DePaul University College of Law alumni Category:Illinois Democrats Category:Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives Category:Illinois state court judges Category:20th-century American lawyers Category:20th-century American politicians Category:20th-century American judges "
"James McMahon Graham (April 14, 1852 – October 23, 1945) was a United States Representative from Illinois. Born in Castleblayney, County Monaghan, Ireland, he immigrated to the United States and settled in Sangamon County, Illinois in 1868. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and attended Valparaiso University; he was a teacher, lawyer in private practice, and in 1885-1886 a member of the Illinois House of Representatives. He was prosecuting attorney for Sangamon County from 1892 to 1896 and a member of the board of education of Springfield, Illinois from 1891 to 1894. Graham was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1915); he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty- fourth Congress in 1914. From 1916 to 1928, he was a member of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and a member of the board of directors of Lincoln Library from 1936 to 1945. In the latter year, he died in Springfield; interment was in Calvary Cemetery, Springfield. In 2010, a memorial plaque was unveiled in his honor at the Iontas Community Resource & Arts Centre in his native Castleblayney in Ireland. References Category:1852 births Category:1945 deaths Category:Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923) Category:Members of the Illinois House of Representatives Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois Category:Valparaiso University alumni Category:Politicians from Springfield, Illinois Category:Politicians from County Monaghan Category:Illinois Democrats Category:Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives Category:School board members in Illinois "
"Leper King's altar The Terrace of the Leper King (or Leper King Terrace) (, Preah Lean Sdach Kumlung) is located in the northwest corner of the Royal Square of Angkor Thom, Cambodia. It was built in the Bayon style under Jayavarman VII, though its modern name derives from a 15th-century sculpture discovered at the site. The statue depicts the Hindu god Yama, the god of death. The statue was called the "Leper King" because discolouration and moss growing on it was reminiscent of a person with leprosy, and also because it fit in with a Cambodian legend of an Angkorian king Yasovarman I who had leprosy.Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos & the Greater Mekong by Nick Ray, Tim Bewer, Andrew Burke, Thomas Huhti, Siradeth Seng. Page 212. Footscray; Oakland; London: Lonely Planet Publications, 2007. The name that the Cambodians know him by, however, is Dharmaraja,Dharmaraja, 'King of Dharma' is a title of Yama. as this is what was etched at the bottom of the original statue. The U-shaped structure is thought by some to have been used as a royal cremation site. Gallery File:Terrace of the Leper King.jpgTerrace of the Leper King File:LeperKing.JPGThe statue which gave the terrace its name has been replaced by a replica. References External links * Terrace of the Leper King - Comprehensive Photographic Documentation by khmer-heritage.de Category:Angkorian sites in Siem Reap Province Category:Cambodian legends "