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Otto Kerner Jr. (August 15, 1908 – May 9, 1976) was an American jurist and politician. He served as the 33rd governor of Illinois from 1961 to 1968 and chaired the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the Kerner Commission).
KERNER, Otto, Jr. ( b. 15 August 1908 in Chicago, Illinois; d. 9 May 1976 in Chicago, Illinois), governor of Illinois and statesman who headed the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders that issued the Kerner Report in 1968 (concerning racial divisions in America) and who in 1974 became the first sitting federal appeals court judge to ...
The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, chaired by Governor Otto Kerner, Jr of Illinois (center, at head of table) released its report in March 1968.
OTTO KERNER, JR. was born in Chicago, Illinois, on August 15, 1908. He received a B.A. from Brown University in 1930, and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law in 1934. He also attended Trinity College at Cambridge University in England from 1930 to 1931.
May 10, 1976 · CHICAGO, May 9 (AP)—Former Illinois Gov. Otto Kerner died today, ending a two‐year battle with cancer and a fight to clear his name after conviction in a race‐track scandal three years ago. He...
Jun 15, 2020 · Otto Kerner, born in Chicago in 1908, went to Brown and then Northwestern, for law school, and, in the nineteen-thirties and into the Second World War, served in the Illinois National Guard,...
May 24, 2021 · The first page of the 1968 Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders —better known as the Kerner Commission after its chairman, Illinois Governor Otto Kerner—is one of the...
