Rory Vincent Ellinger was an American lawyer and politician.
20 Facts About Rory Ellinger
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Rory Ellinger served as the Representative for Pagedale, University City, and Wellston in St Louis County in the Missouri House of Representatives.
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Rory Ellinger was elected to his first two-year term in November 2010 on the Democratic Party ticket.
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Rory Ellinger was raised in a liberal Catholic household where Lois was a longtime Republican committeewoman.
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Rory Ellinger grew up in Webster Groves and graduated from Bishop DuBourg High School.
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Rory Ellinger joined the NAACP protest and began a long career as a civil rights and peace activist.
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Rory Ellinger was born June 1941; his father died in 1967; his mother 1968.
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Rory Ellinger organized peace and civil rights groups in Boston and Cleveland, working with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Congress of Racial Equality.
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Rory Ellinger was arrested and jailed in Chicago and Boston, and in 1965 with Dr King, in Alabama during the Selma to Montgomery marches.
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Rory Ellinger briefly was a bodyguard to Dr King in 1966 before returning to grad school at the University of Missouri where he was chapter president of the Students for a Democratic Society and earned a Master of Arts in history.
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Rory Ellinger was a member of The Missouri Bar and was a treasurer and secretary of the St Charles County Bar Association.
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Rory Ellinger successfully argued in front of the Missouri Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court of Missouri, and the Eighth US Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Rory Ellinger was a member of the St Louis Urban League and The Ethical Society of St Louis.
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Rory Ellinger was elected to the University City School Board in 1991 and served for twelve years, ten of those in leadership positions.
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In 1980 Rory Ellinger married Linda Locke, a business leader and president of Reputare Consulting.
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Rory Ellinger had two children, Maggie Ellinger-Locke and Martin Ellinger.
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Rory Ellinger received her Bachelor of Arts in ecofeminism from Antioch College in 2005.
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Rory Ellinger died in office on April 9,2014, aged 72.
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Rory Ellinger had a rare and aggressive form of liver cancer.
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Rory Ellinger became known as the most liberal legislator in Missouri.