Edward Halsey Jenison (July 27, 1907 – June 24, 1996) was a

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for three terms,

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for one term, and newspaper publisher of the ''Daily Beacon-News'' of Paris, Illinois for 65 years. Born in

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, Jenison attended the public schools and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He engaged in newspaper work, from 1925 to 1937, and as a publisher, since 1938, of the Paris, Illinois ''Daily Beacon-News''. He served as lieutenant commander in the United States Navy, attached to the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air, with service in the Pacific and Atlantic Forces, from April 1943 to September 1946. Jenison was elected as a Republican to the Eightieth, Eighty-first, and Eighty-second Congresses (January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1953). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952 to the

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, in 1954 to the

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, and in 1962 to the

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. He resumed the publishing business, and was named "master editor" by the Southern Illinois Editorial Association in 1986. He served as delegate to the

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and

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. He served as director, Department of Finance, State of Illinois, from June 15, 1960, to January 20, 1961. He served as a member of the

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for one term from 1965 to 1966. Jenison also served in the Illinois House of Representatives from November 7, 1973 to the end of his term in 1974. He was appointed to replace

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who was convicted in the United States District Court for mail fraud and filing a false income tax return.'Illinois Blue Book 1973-1974,' Biographical Sketch of Edward H. Jenison, pg. 161 He served as a delegate, Illinois Sixth

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from 1969 to 1970. He died on June 24, 1996; his funeral service was in Paris, Illinois.

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