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James Oscar Anderson of Oquawka, Henderson County, sits for a portrait. Anderson was a Republican Representative of the 24th District in the 36th General Assembly of Illinois.

James P. Allman joined the Chicago Police Department in 1900 as a policeman, and worked his way up the ladder to sergeant, lieutenant, and captain in 1917. Anton Cermak, a native of Austria-Hungary, was Mayor of Chicago from 1931 until he was…