Message of the Day – A Campaign Poster
This campaign poster looks like one from 1967.
It promotes Jere Dodge, Justice of the Peace from Lake in the Hills.
Dodge ran for state representative against Crystal Lake’s George Lindberg and incumbent John Henry Kline in 1966 when I won the McHenry County Treasurer race.
From the holes at the four corners, I can tell it was nailed to an electric pole..
Above Dodge’s photo it says,
RE-ELECT
JERE E. DODGE
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
VOTE REPUBLICAN
JERE E. DODGE
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
VOTE REPUBLICAN
Below is
No Substitute for Experience
VOTE REPUBLICAN APRIL 1
VOTE REPUBLICAN APRIL 1
The office of justice of the peace was abolished by the 1970 State Constitution.
This was before my time, but tell me: what were the duties of the Justice of the Peace in Illinois? Also, was there one in each county or how did that work?
1There were more than one justice of the peace, probably one for each township.
But, I don't really know.
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