Mel Reynolds

A Representative from Illinois. Born in Mound Bayou, Boliver County, Miss. , January 8, 1952. A. A. , Chicago City College, 1972. B. A. , University of Illinois, 1974. LL. B. , Oxford University, 1979. M. P. A. , Harvard University, 1986. Assistant professor of political science, Roosevelt University. Founder and former president, American Scholars Against World Hunger. Executive director, Community Economic Development Education Foundation. Unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination to the One Hundred First Congress in 1988 and to the One Hundred Second Congress in 1990. Elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Third and to the succeeding Congress and served until his resignation on October 1, 1995 (January 3, 1993-October 1, 1995). Convicted on April 16, 1997, of bank fraud, making false statements to a federal official. , wire fraud. , and conspiracy to defraud Federal Elections Commission. Sentence commuted by President William J. Clinton on January 20, 2001. Unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination to the One Hundred Ninth Congress in 2004. Unsuccessful candidate in a special primary election for the Democratic nomination to the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress in 2013.