Joseph De La Cour

Joseph Logue De La Cour (October 27, 1894 – February 11, 1967) was an American politician.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, De La Cour served in the United States Army in Europe during World War I and then briefly in the Irish Republican Army. He studied real estate law, banking, insurance, and parliamentary procedure in night school. He served as a civil service examiner for the city of Chicago and secretary of the Illinois Alcohol Control Commission. De La Cour also worked in the banking and brewery businesses. From 1947 to 1962, De La Cour served in the Illinois House of Representatives as a Democrat, and then served in the Illinois State Senate from 1962 to 1967 when he died while still in office. He died in Chicago, Illinois.[1][2]

Notes

  1. ↑ Joseph De La Cour
  2. ↑ 'Senator Joseph De La Cour Dies,' Chicago Tribune, February 12, 1967, Part 1 pg. 5


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