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Norbert A. Kosinski (August 21, 1918 – March 10, 1978) was an American politician. Kosinski was born in
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, Illinois. He went to elementary and high schools in Chicago and business school in
Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
. Kosinski served in the
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during
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and was commissioned a sergeant. Kosinski served in the
Illinois Senate The Illinois Senate is the upper chamber of the Illinois General Assembly, the legislative branch of the government of the State of Illinois in the United States. The body was created by the first state constitution adopted in 1818. Under the ...
from 1971 to his death in 1978. He was a
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. Kosinski died from a heart attack while at a fund-raising campaign rally in Chicago. Kosinski won the nomination in the Illinois Democratic primary election on March 21, 1978, after his death.'Dead man wins,' ''The Southern Illinoisan,'' March 23, 178, pg. 10


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1918 births 1978 deaths Politicians from Chicago Military personnel from Illinois Democratic Party Illinois state senators United States Army personnel of World War II American expatriates in Poland 20th-century members of the Illinois General Assembly {{Illinois-statesenator-stub