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- ↑ "Rosters of Government Officials" (PDF), 2011-2012 Illinois Blue Book, Illinois Secretary of State Communications Department, February 2012
- ↑ Illinois. General Assembly. House of Representatives, ed. (1838). Journal of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois. Vol. 1. State Printers. p. 19.
- ↑ Linder, Usher F. (1879). Reminiscences of the Early Bench and Bar of Illinois. Chicago Legal News Company. pp. 272–73.
