George Edward Shipley (April 21, 1927 – June 28, 2003) was a

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from

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. Born in Richland County, near

Olney, Illinois Olney ( ) is the county seat in Richland County, Illinois. The population was 9,115 at the time of the 2010 census. History Settlement of the Richland County area began around 1815 when Thaddeus Morehouse, a native of Vermont, arrived by w ...

, Shipley attended East Richland High School in

. He graduated from

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in 1950. He served in the

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from 1944 to 1947. A business owner, he was Chief deputy sheriff of

Richland County, Illinois Richland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 United States census, it had a population of 15,813. Its county seat is Olney. History Richland County was established in 1841 out of portions of East ...

from 1950 to 1954 and sheriff from 1954 to 1958. Shipley was elected as a

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to the Eighty-sixth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959 to January 3, 1979). He notably defeated conservative activist

Phyllis Schlafly Phyllis Stewart Schlafly (; born Phyllis McAlpin Stewart; August 15, 1924 – September 5, 2016) was an American attorney, conservative activist, and anti-feminist, who was nationally prominent in conservatism. She held paleoconservative soc ...

in 1970 by 91,158 votes (53.97%) to 77,762 (46.04%). He was not a candidate for re-election in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress. Shipley died on June 28, 2003, in

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