Tyrone C. Fahner
| Tyrone C. Fahner | |
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| 37th Attorney General of Illinois | |
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In office July 1980 - January 1983 |
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| Preceded by | William J. Scott |
| Succeeded by | Neil Hartigan |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 18, 1942 Detroit, Michigan |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater | |
Tyrone C. "Ty" Fahner (born November 18, 1942) is an American lawyer and a former Illinois Attorney General. He is a Republican.
Fahner was born on November 18, 1942, in Detroit, Michigan.
Fahner received his B.A. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1965, his J.D. from the Wayne State University Law School in 1968, and his LL.M. from the Northwestern University School of Law in 1971.
In the early 1970s, Fahner became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois, serving under then-U.S. Attorney James R. (Jim) Thompson. Fahner was a lawyer with the law firm of Freeman, Rothe, Freeman & Salzman in Chicago from 1975 to 1977.
Thompson was subsequently elected governor of Illinois and in 1977 selected Fahner to serve as his director of the Illinois Department of Law Enforcement, a post which Thompson retained until 1979.
In 1980, Thompson appointed Fahner to serve as Illinois Attorney General, filling the vacancy created after Attorney General William J. (Bill) Scott was convicted of tax evasion. Fahner ran for a full term as attorney general, but was defeated by Democratic candidate Neil F. Hartigan in the 1982 election.
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