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Rod R. Blagojevich

Rod Blagojevich
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40th Governor of Illinois
In office
January 13, 2003 – January 29, 2009
Lieutenant Pat Quinn
Preceded by George Ryan
Succeeded by Pat Quinn
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Illinois's 5th district
In office
January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2003
Preceded by Michael Patrick Flanagan
Succeeded by Rahm Emanuel
Member of the Illinois House of Representatives
In office
1993–1996
Preceded by Myron Kulas
Personal details
Born (1956-12-10) December 10, 1956 (age 60)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Patricia Mell Blagojevich
Children Amy Blagojevich
Anne Blagojevich
Residence Federal Correctional Institution, Englewood, Jefferson County, Colorado
Alma mater Northwestern University (B.A.)
Pepperdine University (J.D.)
Profession Disbarred Attorney
Former Prosecutor
Religion Serbian Orthodox
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Rod Blagojevich (/bləˈɡɔɪ.əvɪ/, born December 10, 1956) served as the 40th Governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009.

A Democrat, Blagojevich was a state representative before being elected to the United States House of Representatives representing parts of Chicago. He was elected governor in 2002, the first Democrat to win the office since Dan Walker's victory 30 years earlier. Blagojevich was impeached and removed from office for corruption; he solicited bribes for political appointments, including Barack Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat after he was elected president in 2008, and Blagojevich was convicted and sentenced to 14 years in federal prison.

Blagojevich was born in Chicago, Illinois, the second of four children. His father, Radislav, was an immigrant steel plant laborer from a village near Kragujevac, Serbia. His mother, Mila Govedarica, is a Bosnian Serb originally from Gacko, Bosnia and Herzegovina. His parents moved to Chicago in 1947. Blagojevich has a brother, Rob, who worked as a fund-raiser for Blagojevich in his later political career. Blagojevich spent much of his childhood working odd jobs to help the family pay its bills. He was a shoeshiner and pizza delivery boy before working at a meat packing plant. In order to afford university costs, Blagojevich worked for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System as a dishwasher.


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