Gus Savage
| Gus Savage | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's 2nd district |
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In office January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Morgan F. Murphy |
| Succeeded by | Mel Reynolds |
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Augustus Alexander Savage October 30, 1925 Detroit, Michigan |
| Died | October 31, 2015 (aged 90) Olympia Fields, Illinois |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Eunice King (1946;81; her death) |
| Children | Thomas James, Emma Mae |
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Roosevelt University Chicago-Kent College of Law |
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| Service/branch | United States Army |
| Years of service | 1943–1946 |
Augustus Alexander "Gus" Savage (October 30, 1925 – October 31, 2015) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois.
Savage was born in Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from Roosevelt University in Chicago. He served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946 and then worked as a journalist from 1954 to 1979, owning a chain of weekly community newspapers in the Chicago area.
Savage was unsuccessful in his candidacy for the House of Representatives in 1968 and 1970, losing the Democratic primary both times, but won election to the House in 1980, representing the 2nd District on Chicago's South Side for 6 terms, from January 1981 to January 1993.
Savage was criticised for racist and anti-Semitic statements against both white and Jewish people. Savage once gave a speech in which he listed the names of all of the Jewish donors living outside of the Chicago area who donated money to his opponent. This led to a backlash, to which Savage responded that only white people could be racist.
In 1989, Savage was accused of trying to force himself on a female Peace Corps worker in Zaire. He denied the allegations and blamed them on the "racist press." The House Ethics Committee decided that the events did indeed occur, but it did not take disciplinary action only because Savage wrote a letter of apology.
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