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About Sidney Breese
Sidney Breese, a lawyer, soldier, author and jurist born in New York, became an early Illinois pioneer and represented the state in the United States Senate as well as served as Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court and Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, and has been called "father of the Illinois Central Railroad".
Everything about Sidney Breese →- Occupation
- politician, judge, lawyer, jurist
- Position held
- United States senator, United States senator, United States senator, member of the Illinois House of Representatives
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- July 15, 1800
- Died
- June 27, 1878