Images: Remembering Abner Mikva
Abner Mikva, a former congressman, Illinois legislator, federal appellate judge and presidential adviser, has died. He was 90 years old.
In this July 21, 2009 file photo, former Illinois U.S. Rep. and Judge Abner Mikva is seen in Chicago. Mikva has been named one of 19 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. President Barack Obama will present the awards at the White House on Nov. 24., 2014.
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President Bill Clinton applauds behind Abner Mikva in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on August 11, 1994, after announcing that Mikva would become the next White House Counsel. Mikva, 68, a federal appeals judge, will replace Lloyd Cutler, also applauding behind Mikva.
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Abner Mikva, with his wife at his side, concedes victory to his older opponent, Rep. Barrett O'Hara, in a close race for the Democratic nomination of Chicago's 2nd congressional district in Chicago on June 15, 1966. Mikva, 40, argued in his campaign that the 2nd District needed more vigorous representation than the 84-year-old O'Hara could provide.
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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy., gives congressman Abner Mikva, D-Illinois, a pat on the arm during press conference, Thursday, Sept. 23, 1976 in Chicago. Sen. Kennedy is in town stumping for Mikva, and will address a fundraising on Mikva? s behalf.
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President Jimmy Carter and Rep. Abner J. Mikva (D-Ill.), both in shirt sleeves, clasp hands in victory salute after Carter's speech in the gymnasium of Niles East High School in the Chicago suburb of Skokie, Nov. 2, 1978. The president doffed his suit jacket during his speech in deference to the stifling heat of the room, and Mikva responded in similar fashion. Carter is in Chicago campaigning for Democratic candidates.
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President Jimmy Carter acknowledges applause at Niles East High School in Chicago suburban Skokie, Ill., Nov. 2, 1978, as Rep. Abner J. Mikva (D-Chicago), applauds. Carter is in the Chicago area campaigning for Democratic Party candidates.
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Shirtsleeved President Jimmy Carter pauses during his speech in suburban Skokie, Nov. 3, 1978 as platform guests follow suit, as it were, and take off their jackets. Carter was addressing a "get out the vote" crowd at Niles East High School on behalf of Illinois Democratic candidates. At left is Rep. Abner Mikva (D-Ill.), at right of podium is Sen. Adlai Stevenson Ill. (D-Ill.), and at far right is Alex Seith, Democratic senatorial candidate.
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Rep. Abner J. Mikva (D-Ill.), and San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein hold a Capitol Hill news conference in Washington, Jan. 25, 1979 to promote presidential and congressional action for strong handgun control.
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Rep. Abner J. Mikva (D-Ill.), accepts a congratulatory phone call in his Washington office on March 8, 1979, after it was announced that he has been selected by President Jimmy Carter to be a federal judge. Mikva, a five term congressman, is slated for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia.
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Abner Mikva, commission chairman and former U.S. Court of Appeals judge, listens to commission member Shela Murphy, right, list findings of a panel investigating last fall's deadly downtown high-rise fire Wednesday, July 7, 2004, in Chicago. Murphy, a former Cook County judge, said "It was apparent to us that certain individuals who were fighting that fire clearly did not know what they were doing,"
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In this Aug. 6, 2005 file photo, Abner J. Mikva, takes part in the American Bar Association's 2005 Thurgood Marshall Awards Dinner in Chicago. Of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama Mikva says, "He's a natural, obviously _ a candidate with political savvy and electrifying oratory, enormous confidence and calm, fierce ambition and a keen sense of timing, and an uncanny knack of making friends and forging connections in all the right places. He's just a complete political talent," says Mikva, a former Illinois congressman and federal judge who is an Obama mentor.
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Former White House Counsel under President Clinton Abner Mikva joins Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan as they discuss a motion she filed with the State Supreme Court asking justices to strip scandal-plagued Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich of his powers at a press conference Friday, Dec. 12, 2008 in Chicago. Mikva serves as a Special Assistant Attorney General in the Illinois Atorney General's office.
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Former White House Counsel under President Clinton Abner Mikva joins Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan as they discuss a motion she filed with the State Supreme Court asking justices to strip scandal-plagued Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich of his powers at a press conference Friday, Dec. 12, 2008 in Chicago. Mikva serves as a Special Assistant Attorney General in the Illinois Atorney General's office.
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Abner Mikva, chairman of the state of Illinois Admissions Review Commission speaks Monday, June 29, 2009, in Chicago during the first meeting of the independent commission appointed by Gov. Pat Quinn to investigate admitting politically connected students to the university.
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University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman, left, talks to Abner Mikva, chairman of the state of Illinois Admissions Review Commission after Herman testified Monday, July 6, 2009, in Chicago during a meeting of the independent commission appointed by Gov. Pat Quinn to investigate clout-driven admissions at the university.
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Former federal judge and former Rep. Abner Mikva, D-Ill, right, introduces Vice President Joe Biden to speak during a luncheon to mark the 40th anniversary of the Legal Services Corporation, on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014, in Washington.
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In this July 6, 2009, file photo, former Illinois U.S. Rep. and Judge Abner Mikva appears in Chicago. Mikva, a former congressman, Illinois legislator, federal appellate judge and presidential adviser, died Monday, July 4, 2016. He was 90 years old.
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