Gus Savage

Augustus Alexander " Gus" Savage ( born October 30, 1925 in Detroit, Michigan ) is a retired American politician. Between 1981 and 1993 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Gus Savage attended the public schools in Chicago and then to 1943 the local Wendell Phillips High School. During the Second World War, he served 1943-1946 in the U.S. Army. After the war he continued his studies until 1952, Roosevelt College. In the years 1952 and 1953 he studied at the Chicago -Kent College of Law law. Between 1954 and 1979 he worked as a journalist. He was publisher and editor of several newspapers. Savage sat down one particularly for the African American population. Example, he was a member of a citizens' initiative, which had set the election of African American mayor of Chicago to the destination.

Savage was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1970 he ran unsuccessfully for even the U.S. House of Representatives. In the congressional elections of 1980, but he was then in the second electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Morgan F. Murphy on January 3, 1981. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1993 six legislative periods.

In 1992, he was not nominated by his party for re-election. Today he lives in Chicago.