Gus Savage

A Representative from Illinois. Born in Detroit, Mich. , October 30, 1925. Attended the public schools of Chicago. Graduated from Wendell Phillips High School, Chicago, Ill. , 1943. B. A. , Roosevelt College, Chicago, Ill. , 1951. United States Army, 1943-1946. Graduate work, Roosevelt College, 1952. Attended Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, Ill. , 1952-1953. Worked as a journalist, 1954-1979, and was editor and publisher, Citizen Community Newspapers, 1965-1979. A founder and chief strategist of black political independent movement in Midwest. Campaign manager, Midwest League of Negro Voters, 1960. Chairman, Protest at the Polls, 1963. Chairman, Southend Voters Conference, Chicago, 1960. Chairman, Committee for a Black Mayor, Chicago, 1976. Unsuccessful candidate for election to the Ninety-first Congress in 1970. Elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-seventh and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1981-January 3, 1993). Unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the One Hundred Third Congress in 1992. Died on October 31, 2015, in Chicago, Ill. Interment at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood, Ill.