Jesse White has continually made history: As Illinois’ most popular politician, winning all 102 counties in multiple election cycles; as Illinois’ longest-serving secretary of state; and as the first Black person to hold the office.
For the first time in two dozen years, Illinois will get a new secretary of state., who did not run for reelection this year.White has continually made history: As Illinois’ most popular politician, winning all 102 counties in multiple election cycles; as Illinois’ longest-serving secretary of state; and as the first Black person to hold the office.
White ending up running and winning, serving 16 years in the Illinois House, representing what he says was the most diverse district in Illinois – covering Chicago’s Gold Coast and Mag Mile as well as Cabrini Green, where he’d grown up after moving from Alton, near St. Louis, at the age of 7. Winning that race was not a given; that was the year then-House Speaker Michael Madigan took over as head of the Democratic Party of Illinois.
“Beat him decisively, became the first African American secretary of state in the history of the state of Illinois. Now you know the rest of the story,” White said.There was the time he took issue with his pastor, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., about King's non-violence-based plan to desegregate the Montgomery, Alabama transit system after Rosa Parks’ arrest.King called on him and said “‘Jesse White, what can I do?’ I said ‘Dr. King, you know me very well. You know I’m from Chicago.
“Then four days before going to spring training, I was drafted into the military. So instead of going to spring training, I was going to basic training at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri. And while I was there I decided I wanted to jump out of airplanes,” White said.st Air Division and in the Illinois National Guard, doing 35 jumps as a paratrooper before his after his discharge.
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