From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Edward Hanrahan

American politician (1921–2009)

Summary

American politician (1921–2009)

Field	Value
name	Edward Hanrahan
battles	World War II
children	4
president2	Lyndon B. Johnson
successor2	Tom Foran
predecessor2	Frank E. McDonald
termend2	1968
termstart2	1964
office2	United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois
alma_mater	University of Notre Dame (BS)
Harvard University (LLB)
branch	United States Army
party	Democratic
birth_date	March 11, 1921
successor	Bernard Carey
predecessor	John J. Stamos
termend	1972
termstart	1968
office	Cook County State's Attorney
death_place	River Forest, Illinois, U.S.
birth_place	Coconut Grove, Florida, U.S.
death_date	June 9, 2009 (aged 88)
birth_name	Edward Vincent Hanrahan

Harvard University (LLB)

Edward Vincent Hanrahan (March 11, 1921 – June 9, 2009) was an American attorney and politician who served as Cook County State's Attorney from 1968 to 1972. Hanrahan had been a prospective successor to Mayor of Chicago Richard J. Daley. His career was effectively ended after Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton and member Mark Clark were assassinated in a raid by police coordinated by his office in 1969.

Early life and education

Hanrahan was born in Coconut Grove, Florida, and moved as a child to Chicago with his family. He earned a degree in accounting from the University of Notre Dame. During World War II, he served in an intelligence role in the United States Army Signal Corps. After completing his military service, he attended Harvard Law School and earned his law degree in 1948.

Career

Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley supported his successful bid for an appointment as United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois in 1964. Hanrahan got the post after Daley told President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson "Let me say, Mr. President, with great pride and honor, he's a precinct captain." Running as a Democrat, he won a landslide election in 1968 for Cook County State's Attorney, winning support from White and African American voters.

Acting on the basis of a tip from an FBI informant (William O'Neal), 14 police officers assigned to Hanrahan's office staged a pre-dawn raid on December 4, 1969, to search for illegal weapons in the West Side apartment of Fred Hampton, a leader of the Black Panther Party. Dozens of shots were fired and Hampton and Black Panther Mark Clark were both killed. Despite guns found on the premises and police assertions that the Panthers had fired first, bullet hole markings presented by police in support of their claim turned out to be nail heads.

The Cook County Democratic Party declined to endorse Hanrahan in his bid for reelection as State's Attorney in 1972, but Democratic voters renominated him anyway. The combined votes of Republicans and African American Democrats sufficed to elect his Republican opponent in the general election.

Post-State's Attorney

He ran for Mayor of Chicago in the Democratic primaries of 1975 and of 1977, losing respectively to Daley and Michael Bilandic; Hanrahan placed fourth each time. In the 1974 congressional election for Illinois's 6th congressional district, Hanrahan lost to Henry Hyde. In the 1980 special election to represent the 36th ward on the Chicago City Council, Hanrahan finished third of four candidates, losing to incumbent appointee Louis Farina.

Personal life

Hanrahan and his wife were married for 55 years and had four children. Hanrahan died at age 88 on June 9, 2009, at his home in River Forest, Illinois, due to complications from leukemia.

References

Morris, Rose. (2019). "Chronicle of the Seventh Son Black Panther Mark Clark". Rose Morris.
Napolitano, Jo. [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/us/12hanrahan.html "Edward Hanrahan, Prosecutor Tied to '69 Panthers Raid, Dies at 88"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 11, 2009. Accessed June 13, 2009.
Sullivan, Patricia. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/11/AR2009061103996.html "Prosecutor Oversaw Fatal 1969 Raid of Black Panthers in Chicago"], ''[[The Washington Post]]'', June 12, 2009. Accessed June 13, 2009.
REPORTER, Trevor Jensen, TRIBUNE. "EDWARD V. HANRAHAN: 1921-2009".
via ''[[Associated Press]]''. [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-obit-hanrahan,0,4665830.story "Former Cook County prosecutor Edward Hanrahan dies"], ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', June 10, 2009.
(February 2024)
Armstrong, Anne L.. (September 20, 1974). "Illinois Political Briefing". [[Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library]].
Fremon, David K.. (October 22, 1988). "Chicago Politics: Ward by Ward". [[Indiana University Press]].

Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

1921-births 2009-deaths cook-county-state's-attorneys united-states-attorneys-for-the-northern-district-of-illinois lawyers-from-chicago harvard-law-school-alumni university-of-notre-dame-alumni deaths-from-leukemia-in-illinois people-from-river-forest,-illinois lawyers-from-miami military-personnel-from-illinois 20th-century-american-lawyers united-states-army-personnel-of-world-war-ii 20th-century-illinois-politicians

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Edward Hanrahan — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report