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Roland Wallace Burris (born August 3, 1937) is the junior United States Senator from the state of Illinois, and a Democrat. He is the third African-American U.S. Senator from Illinois, after CaroLMoseley Braun nd Barack Obama. Burris is currently the only African-American in the U.S. Senate.
Burris was appointed by Democratic Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to replace Obama, who resigned after he was elected President of the United States.Blagojevich and Burris are both subjects of ethics probes.
In 1978 he was the first African American elected to statewide office in Illinois, when he was elected Illinois Comptroller. He served in that office until his election as Illinois Attorney General in 1990. Since then, he has run for office four more times unsuccessfully.
Calls for Burris's resignation from the Senate began after allegations were made that he had lied under oath about his contacts with associates of Blagojevich prior to his appointment.The Sangamon County State's Attorney's office and the Senate Ethics Committee are each investigating whether Burris perjured himself in his testimony before an Illinois House of Representatives committee in connection with the Blagojevich impeachment proceedings.