Neil Hartigan

Neil F. Hartigan ( born May 4, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American lawyer and politician. Between 1973 and 1977 he was Deputy Governor of the State of Illinois.

Career

Neil Hartigan attended Loyola Academy and went on to study at Georgetown University in Washington DC After a subsequent study of law at Loyola University, where he graduated in 1962, he worked for the next ten years in various legal positions for the city of Chicago. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. He was elected to the side of Daniel Walker for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois in 1972. This post he held between 8 January 1973, 10 January 1977. Yet he was assistant to the governor. In 1976, he was not confirmed.

After the end of his time as Lieutenant Governor Hartigan worked as a private businessman in the private sector. In the early 1980s he returned to politics. In August 1980 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in New York, on the President Jimmy Carter to be unsuccessful re-election has been nominated. Between 1983 and 1991 he was attorney general of his state. In 1990, Neil Hartigan applied to the Office of the Governor of Illinois, but was defeated by Republican Jim Edgar. After that, he was chairman of the World Trade Center Illinois. Between 2002 and 2008 he was the appeal judges at the Illinois Appellate Court