Marvin F. Burt (November 20, 1905 – October 14, 1983) was a Republican politician from Illinois and a member of the

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. Burt was born in

Freeport, Illinois Freeport is the largest city in Stephenson County, Illinois, United States, and its county seat. The population was 23,973 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, and the mayor of Freeport is Jodi Miller, elected in 2017. Freeport is k ...

, on November 20, 1905. He graduated from

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with a

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degree in 1928, and graduated from

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in 1931, subsequently practicing law in Freeport in 1931. He served as the City Attorney of Freeport and as Master in Chancery of Circuit Court of Stephenson County. Later in his career, he was elected as an Illinois State Representative, and was re-elected three times, serving four terms. He was elected to the

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in November 1952, and was re-elected in 1956. He was elected as a Circuit Judge of the Fifteenth Circuit of Illinois in 1960, and was appointed to the Illinois Supreme Court in 1969, being succeeded by Roy Solfisburg a year later. He had a wife, Helen, and two children, a son and a daughter.

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