Grand Old Partisan honors Norman Judd, born January 10th 1815. Public service began as Chicago city attorney, then state senator. He "gave his best energies and abilities to securing the material growth and prosperity of the City and did much to place the impaired credit of the State on a healthy basis."
Founding convention of the Illinois GOP named him chairman. Judd arranged the Lincoln-Douglas debates and nominated Abraham Lincoln at the 1860 Republican National Convention. It was he who convinced the president-elect to evade an assassination plot at Baltimore.
Lincoln named him ambassador to Prussia. In 1866, Judd won first of two congressional terms. Receiving his vote were the Reconstruction Act, the (anti-) Ku Klux Klan Act and the 15th Amendment. President Ulysses Grant appointed him collector for the port of Chicago.
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