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...same steel and glass skyscraper where he has worked for the past five years, Federal Judge Otto Kerner sat rigidly before a packed, expectant courtroom, waiting to hear the verdict on himself. As befits a successful and distinguished man, a major general in the National Guard, twice Governor ot Illinois he looked calm and controlled. He searched the faces of the jury-seven men and five women, including housewives and hand laborers-who all avoided his gaze. The foreman said that the jury had reached a verdict, after 16 hours of deliberation, and he handed a sealed envelope...
...Otto Kerner, 64, was convicted ot bribery conspiracy, income tax evasion, mail fraud and perjury. He could receive a maximum sentence of 83 years in prison and a fine of $93,000. The verdict stemmed from a dubious race-track stock deal in which Kerner, while Governor, netted $140,000 in profits in exchange for helping a track owner obtain a longer season and permission to expand into harness racing. It represented the conviction not just of a politician...
...Otto Kerner was different-or so it seemed. Once known as "the Mr. Clean of Illinois," a man of suave courtliness, a leader of the Boy Scouts and the Red Cross, he had gone to good schools (Brown, Cambridge, Northwestern Law), and married the daughter of former Mayor Anton Cermak. Kerner's father who had worked himself up from poverty to the federal bench, beamed with pride as he swore in his son as a US attorney. Mayor Richard Daley then recruited Kerner as a blue-ribbon candidate to run for Governor in 1960 against William Stratton, whose administration...
Though many people outside Illinois viewed Kerner as a progressive, energetic Governor, he was in fact mostly good looks. His main accomplishments were getting the Atomic Energy Commission to build a multimillion-dollar atom smasher in western Du Page County and appointing a board to map long-range goals for education in Illinois He nevertheless gained such a reputation that Lyndon Johnson appointed him to head a presidential commission on civil disorders. Among the character witnesses at his trial was retired General William Westmoreland, who described him as a man of "impeccable character...
...Chicago board of education for five years, prompted some pols to tout him as a promising candidate for the 1964 Illinois gubernatorial race. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, however, dashed Shriver's hopes when he let it be known that he was supporting the Democratic incumbent, Otto Kerner. It was the first of Shriver's several disappointing attempts to run for elective office...