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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: May 29, 2019
Caption: Sidney R. Yates
Additional Description:
The Honorable
Sidney R. Yates
Member of Congress
1949 to 1962 and 1965 to 1998
To commemorate forty-eight years of public service of the highest order in the U.S. House of Representatives; his unyielding, inspired promotion of human dignity; his dedication to conserving our country’s forests and all of our most precious natural resources; his promotion of the arts and humanities; and in recognition of the dignity and honor in which he served as United States Representative from the State of Illinois and symbolic of the prominence with which he and his career will be remembered, on January 3, 1999, this landmark was named the Sidney R. Yates Federal Building.
Submitted: June 2, 2019, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p477684
File Size: 1.840 Megabytes

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