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Kerner, Otto, Jr (1908–1976)| US state governor. As governor (Democrat, Illinois) 1961–68, he effected fiscal and administrative reforms. He chaired the National Advisory Committee on Civil Disorders; the report (1968) became known as ‘the Kerner Report’ and played a major role in redirecting Americans' thinking about their society's racial problems. |
| He was born in Chicago. He was a distinguished World War II veteran, a Chicago corporate lawyer 1934–47, Illinois attorney general 1945–54, Cook County judge in 1954, and a US Court of Appeals judge 1968–74. He was sentenced to a three-year jail term in 1974 for racetrack fraud. |
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