John Neal Erlenborn

A Representative from Illinois; born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., February 8, 1927; graduated from Immaculate Conception High School, Elmhurst, Ill., 1944; attended Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., 1944; attended the University of Illinois, 1945-1946; attended Loyola University, Chicago, Ill.; J.D., Loyola University Law School, Chicago, Ill., 1949; United States Navy, 1944-1946; lawyer, private practice; assistant State’s attorney, Du Page County, Ill., 1950-1952; member of the Illinois state house of representatives, 1957-1965; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-ninth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1985); not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-ninth Congress in 1984; adjunct faculty, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.; board member, Legal Services Corporation, 1989-2001; interim president, Legal Services Corporation, 2001-2003; died on October 30, 2005, in Warrenton, Ill.