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He was appointed by Governor Adlai Stevenson II as head of the Illinois Department of Finance, serving in that role from 1949 through 1950
Daley was not Illinois’s head of finance in this period; contemporary and biographical sources identify him as the state’s Director of Revenue.
Full reasoning
This sentence gives Daley the wrong state post. Reliable sources identify him in 1949–1950 as Director of Revenue / state director of revenue, not as the head of the Illinois Department of Finance. The Chicago Public Library biography says he "Served as Governor Adlai Stevenson’s state director of revenue in 1949." A Congressional Record tribute likewise describes him as having been appointed "Director of the Illinois Department of Revenue" by Gov. Stevenson in 1949. So the article’s reference to the Illinois Department of Finance is incorrect.
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- Mayor Richard J. Daley Biography | Chicago Public Library
Served as Governor Adlai Stevenson's state director of revenue in 1949
- Congressional Record, April 3, 1967
...he was appointed Director of the Illinois Department of Revenue by Gov. Stevenson in 1949.