Roland Burris

Biography

Roland Wallace Burris (born August 3, 1937) is an American politician and attorney who served as Attorney General of Illinois from 1991 to 1995 and as a United States senator from Illinois from 2009 until 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, Burris was the first African-American elected to statewide office in Illinois. Burris was first elected to public office in 1978, becoming the Comptroller of Illinois, and was reelected in 1982 and 1986.

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