Terry Deering (November 7, 1958 – June 26, 1997) was an American legislator and coal miner who served as a Democratic member of the

Illinois House of Representatives The Illinois House of Representatives is the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly. The body was created by the first Illinois Constitution adopted in 1818. The House under the constitution as amended in 1980 consists of 118 representativ ...

from January 1991 until his death in June 1997.

Biographical sketch

Born in

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, Deering went to Nashville High School in Nashville, Illinois. He was a coal miner and then served as Mayor of

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. In the 1990 general election Deering defeated Republican incumbent Charles Wayne Goforth in what was regarded as an upset. He served in the

, as a Democrat, from 1990 until his death. He died in an auto accident near

.'Illinois Blue Book 1997-1998,' Biographical Sketch of Terry Deering, pg. 61 Local Democratic Party leaders appointed Dan Reitz, a County Commissioner in Randolph County, to succeed Deering.

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1958 births 1997 deaths People from Du Quoin, Illinois People from Washington County, Illinois American coal miners Road incident deaths in Illinois Mayors of places in Illinois Democratic Party members of the Illinois House of Representatives 20th-century members of the Illinois General Assembly {{Illinois-Ilrepresentative-Democratic-stub