While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.

He was charged with lying to investigators and accepting cash gifts and loans in return for his official actions as governor. Army in Korea he worked for his father's two drugstores. Ryan died five months after that visit.

George Homer Ryan Sr. He was a member of the Republican Party. Ryan received worldwide attention for his 1999 moratorium on executions in Illinois and for commuting more than 160 death sentences to life sentences in 2003.