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Roland Burris
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Roland Burris is a Democratic American politician and former statewide officer in the U.S. state of Illinois. Burris served as Comptroller of Illinois from 1979 to 1991 and as Attorney General of Illinois from 1991 to 1995. On December 30, 2008, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich announced he was naming Burris to fill the seat in the United States Senate vacated weeks earlier by President-elect Barack Obama. Questions were raised about whether Blagojevich's action was legitimate and if Burris should be seated, in the wake of Blagojevich's arrest on multiple corruption charges.
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