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Michael Patrick Flanagan (born November 9, 1962) is an American politician from Illinois

Illinois

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

, and a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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. He served one term in the United States House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

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Flanagan, who was born in Chicago, Illinois

Chicago

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, served in the United States Army

United States Army

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from 1984 to 1988 (at Fort Sill

Fort Sill

Fort Sill is a United States Army post near Lawton, Oklahoma, about 85 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.Today, Fort Sill remains the only active Army installation of all the forts on the South Plains built during the Indian Wars...

, in Oklahoma

Oklahoma

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, and at Fort Benning

Fort Benning

Fort Benning is a United States Army post located southeast of the city of Columbus in Muscogee and Chattahoochee counties in Georgia and Russell County, Alabama...

in Georgia), and 1991 to 1992 (during the Gulf War

Gulf War

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). He learned Greek

Greek language

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at the Defense Language Institute

Defense Language Institute

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. Flanagan is a graduate of Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Chicago

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and Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Loyola University Chicago School of Law is the law school of the Loyola University Chicago, in Illinois. Established in 1909, by the Society of Jesus, the Roman Catholic order of the Jesuits, the School of Law is located in downtown Chicago, within walking distance of the Water Tower , the John...

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Flanagan was elected to represent the fifth district of Illinois

Illinois's 5th congressional district

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in the U.S. House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

in 1994, defeating 18-term Congressman and former Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski

Dan Rostenkowski

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, becoming the first Republican to represent a significant portion of Chicago since 1967. Rostenkowski was under indictment during the election.

While a member of Congress, Flanagan served on the House Judiciary Committee, the House Government Reform Committee, and the Joint Committee on Telecommunications. He generally voted the Republican line.

While the Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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and the Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
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both endorsed Flanagan for reelection in 1996, he was regarded as a heavy underdog against the Democratic challenger, State Representative

Illinois House of Representatives

The Illinois House of Representatives is the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Illinois. The body was created by the first Illinois Constitution adopted in 1818. The state House of Representatives is made of 118 representatives elected from...

Rod Blagojevich

Rod R. Blagojevich is an American politician who 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...

. As expected, the district reverted to form; Blagojevich soundly defeated Flanagan, and Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

easily carried the district. Flanagan's loss was one of the eight seats first-term Republican candidates lost in the 1996 election. The Republicans have only put up nominal challengers in the 5th since then.

He is currently the president of Flanagan Consulting LLC

Limited liability company

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in Washington D.C., and has been active in Illinois

Illinois

Boys State since 1979.

External links

Michael P. Flanagan at Flanagan Consulting LLC

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|1994

United States House elections, 1994

The 1994 U.S. House of Representatives election was held on November 8, 1994, in the middle of President Bill Clinton's first term. As a result of a 54-seat swing in membership from Democrats to Republicans, the Republican Party gained a majority of seats in the United States House of...

|U.S. House

United States House of Representatives

Dan Rostenkowski

(inc.)
|bgcolor=#B3D9FF |Democrat
|bgcolor=#B3D9FF |46%
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|1996

United States House elections, 1996

The U.S. House election, 1996 was an election for the U.S. House of Representatives on November 5, 1996, which coincided with the re-election of Bill Clinton as President of the United States. Clinton's Democratic Party won a net of nine seats from the Republican Party, but the Republicans...

|U.S. House

United States House of Representatives

|bgcolor=#B3D9FF |Rod Blagojevich

Rod Blagojevich

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