Lake View High School
Sidney R. Yates went to which school from 1927 to 1928?
Sidney R . Yates Sidney Richard Yates ( August 27 , 1909 – October 5 , 2000 ) was a politician from the state of Illinois . A native of Chicago , he graduated from Lake View High School in 1928 . He received bachelors ( 1931 ) and law ( 1933 ) degrees from the University of Chicago , was admitted to the bar , and practiced law in Chicago . In addition to working as an attorney , Yates also played semiprofessional basketball in the 1930s . He gained his initial experience in government as an attorney for the state bank receiver ( 1935-1937 ) , and an assistant state attorney general specializing in traction railroads for the Illinois Commerce Commission ( 1937-1940 ) . During World War II , Yates served in the United States Navy for two years ( 1944-1946 ) as an attorney based in Washington , D.C . In 1948 , Yates was elected to Congress , and he served from 1949 to 1963 . After an unsuccessful run against Everett Dirksen for the United States Senate in 1962 , in 1964 Yates was again elected to the House . He served from 1965 to 1999 , and did not run for reelection in 1998 . He was a longtime member of the House Appropriations Committee , where he became known for staunch U.S . support of Israel , and federal funding for parks , historical conservation , and the arts . Yates was also an advocate for several liberal causes , including opposition to discrimination based on age . At the time he concluded his service , he was third oldest person to ever serve in the House ( age 89 ) behind Charles Manly Stedman and Isaac R . Sherwood , and one of the longest-tenured members in the history of Congress ( total House service of 48 years ) . Yates died in Washington in 2000 . He was buried at Memorial Park Cemetery in Skokie , Illinois . Early life . Yates was born in Chicago , Illinois , the youngest of six children of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants Louis and Ida Yates . He grew up in Chicago and was an office boy at Variety Chicago office during the 1920s . He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1931 with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree and received a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School in 1933 . While in college , Yates joined the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity . He also played basketball , and was selected for All Big Ten honors . In the mid-1930s , he played semiprofessional basketball and practiced law . Yates was an attorney for the Illinois state bank receiver from 1935 to 1937 . From 1937 to 1940 he was an assistant state attorney general attached to the Illinois Commerce Commission as a traction attorney . He served in the United States Navy during World War II , assigned as an attorney for the Bureau of Ships in Washington , DC . Career in Congress . From 1949 to 1963 and 1965 to 1999 , Yates served in the House of Representatives as a Democrat . Although the boundaries of his district changed over the years , it was always anchored in the Chicago lakefront . From the 1970s onward , Chicagos declining population resulted in the district spilling into the northern suburbs . By the time he retired , his district also included Evanston , Des Plaines , Glenview , Rosemont and Skokie . Yates was one of the first congressmen to speak out against age discrimination , arguing in 1951 that mandatory retirement of workers was wrong and deprived older people of their right to lead a proud , productive and independent life . During the late 1950s , after a series of lurid magazine articles and Hollywood films helped to sensationalize youth gangs and violence , Yates called for legislation to ban automatic-opening or switchblade knives , proclaiming that Vicious fantasies of omnipotence , idolatry...barbaric and sadistic atrocities , and monstrous violations of accepted values spring from the cult of the weapon , and the switchblade knife is included in this . Minus switchblade knives and the distorted feeling of power they beget—power that is swaggering , reckless , and itching to express itself in violence—our delinquent adolescents would be shorn of one of their most potent means of incitement to crime . The ban on switchblade knives was eventually enacted into law as the Switchblade Knife Act of 1958 . Rep . Yates and other congressmen supporting the Switchblade Knife Act believed that by stopping the importation and interstate sales of automatic knives ( effectively halting sales of new switchblades ) , the law would reduce youth gang violence by blocking access to what had become a symbolic weapon . However , while switchblade imports , domestic production , and sales to lawful owners soon ended , later legislative research demonstrated that youth gang violence rates had in fact rapidly increased , as gang members began using firearms instead of knives . Yates was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1962 against Republican incumbent and Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen . He briefly served at the United Nations before returning to the House after the 1964 election . Fellow Democrat Edward Finnegan won Yates old seat after his former district was merged with the 9th , but Chicago machine bosses persuaded him to accept a circuit judgeship in return for letting Yates take his old seat back . Yates served on the Appropriations Committee throughout his career and chaired the Interior Subcommittee from 1975 to 1995 . On this committee he supported environmental programs and the National Endowment for the Arts . Yates remained on good terms with both liberal reformers and machine politicians in Chicago throughout his career . He also served on the Foreign Operations subcommittee and was a strong advocate of American support for Israel . He worked hand-in-hand with his chief of staff , Mary Bain , to preserve federal funding for the arts and for Natural Heritage Preservation programs , and to establish the U.S . Holocaust Memorial Museum . In 1993 , he was presented with the Presidential Citizens Medal by President Clinton and in 1997 he received the Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech In 1999 , the Auditors Building in Washington , DC , was renamed the Sidney Yates Building in his honor . He is the longest-serving member ever of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Illinois . In his closing months of service , he surpassed Robert L . Doughton as the oldest person ever to serve in the House ( Yates was surpassed in this record by Ralph Hall ( R-Texas ) in 2012 ) . He holds the record as the 10th longest-serving member in the history of the US Congress , and also has the longest tenure of all members whose time in Congress included a break in service . Family . Yates was married to Adeline Holleb ( 1914–2002 ) for 65 years . They were the parents of Stephen R . Yates ( 1940-2000 ) , who served as an Illinois circuit court judge . His brother Charles was a talent agent for Bob Hope , Bing Crosby and Martha Raye .