Roland Burris for sixteen years was an elected statewide official in Illinois - first comptroller general, then attorney general. Burris ran for Governor in a crowded Democratic primary in 1994 and lost to Dawn Clark Netsch. Before holding and running for statewide office Burris received a 1963 law degree from Howard, was the first African American bank examiner working for the Comptroller of the Currency, worked as a tax accountant, and worked at Operation Push. Burris is married to a physician and is the father of both a physician and an attorney. Burris is an elder statesman - so long as he is lawfully appointed by the sitting governor of Illinois to the Senate, there is no basis for denying him a seat in the Senate. To paraphrase Bismark, in many cases one should not look too closely as to how politics or sausages are made (Bismark was talking about laws)
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