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Dec 30, 2008 · 12/30/2008 04:30 PM EST. On Election Day in November, Roland Burris walked alone to his polling place and was greeted by a local news team working on a historical piece about African-Americans ...
Dec 31, 2008 · Mr. Burris served briefly in 1977 as executive director of Operation Push, the civil rights organization founded by Mr. Jackson. Mr. Burris was the state’s comptroller from 1979 to 1991, and was ...
Nov 1, 2010 · MARTIN: Roland Burris is a Democrat. He is the junior senator representing Illinois. He is, as we mentioned, the only African-American in the upper chamber of Congress at this time. And he joined ...
His name was Roland W. Burris and while he was only with the OCC for a brief period, he has gone on to make history elsewhere in the U.S. Roland W. Burris, First African-American National Bank Examiner. In 1978, Burris became the first African-American elected to statewide office within the state of Illinois when he became State Comptroller.
Roland Wallace Burris (born August 3, 1937) [1] is an American politician. He was a United States Senator from the state of Illinois. He is a member of the Democratic Party . In 1978, Burris was the first African-American elected to statewide office in Illinois, when he was elected Illinois Comptroller. He was in that office until his election ...
Dec 31, 2008 · This story, Roland W. Burris, a Low-Key Groundbreaker, originally appeared in the New York Times. Dirk Johnson. In Illinois, where politics ranks among the dramatic arts (sometimes the theater of ...
BURRIS, ROLAND, a Senator from Illinois; born in Centralia, Ill., August 3, 1937; B.A., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill., 1959; J.D., Howard University, 1963; national bank examiner for comptroller of the currency, U.S. Treasury Department 1963-1964; bank executive; director, Illinois State Department of General Services 1973-1976; Illinois State comptroller 1978-1990, the first ...
