Member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 71st district
In office January 2011 – January 2013
Preceded by
Mike Boland
Succeeded by
Mike Smiddy
Personal details
Born
(1959-11-10) November 10, 1959 (age 64)
Political party
Republican
Spouse
Betsey Morthland
Children
2
Education
St. Ambrose University (BA) Denver Seminary (M.Div.) Spring Arbor University (MA)
Richard Morthland (born November 10, 1959) is an American politician who is a member of the Rock Island County Board and was a Republican member of the Illinois General Assembly for a single term from 2011 to 2013. Morthland served on the Rock Island County Board from 2008 to 2011 and was reelected to the County Board in 2016.[1][2] Morthland has a bachelor's degree from St. Ambrose University, master's degrees from Denver Seminary and Spring Arbor University, and is a doctoral student at Denver Seminary.[3] In addition to politics, Morthland is a former assistant professor at Black Hawk College and is a farmer on his family's farm that dates back to 1842 when it was homesteaded in Coe Township.[4][5]
On October 28, 2017, it was announced that Morthland would be the running mate of State Representative Jeanne Ives in the 2018 Republican primary against incumbent governor Bruce Rauner and incumbent lieutenant governor Evelyn Sanguinetti.[6] The Ives-Morthland ticket lost receiving 48.60% of the vote to Rauner-Sanguinetti's 51.40% of the vote.[7]
^Cullen, Jack. "RI Co. Board re-elects chairman, fills vacancy". Quad City Times. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
^Elliott, Stephen. "Morthland introduces bill to change county board compensation". Quad City Online. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
^Moran, Dennis. "Morthland, Simpson face off for RICo District 1". Retrieved January 7, 2018.
^Halstead, Marilyn. "'I'm going to lead the charge': Jeanne Ives, Rauner's GOP primary challenger, visits Southern Illinois". Retrieved January 7, 2018.
^Morthland, Rich. "For state representative in the 71st Legislative District: Ahern, Morthland say why they should replace retiring Mike Boland". Retrieved January 7, 2018.
^Miller, Rich (October 28, 2017). "It's an Ives-Morthland ticket". Capitol Fax. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
^Bosman, Julie; Martin, Jonathan (March 20, 2018). "Gov. Bruce Rauner and J.B. Pritzker to Face Off in Illinois". New York Times. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
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and re-elected in 2021. Morthland College's board of trustees voted unanimously to hire Poshard as the president of Morthland College effective February...
unusually minimalist style and his extended vamps, according to reviewer John Morthland. The New York Times contributor Ben Ratliff said, in a review of the album...
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Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader, collected writings, John Morthland, ed. Anchor Press, 2003. (ISBN 0-375-71367-0) Let It Blurt: The Life and...
Popular Music. Vol. II (3rd ed.). Muze. p. 840–1. ISBN 0-333-74134-X. John Morthland (September 1976). "Man In The Hills (review)". rollingstone.com. No. 222...
basketball coach in America. From 2012 to 2014, he coached collegiately at Morthland College, as well as the Southern Illinois University Salukis men's basketball...
Morthland, Ben Edmonds, Ed Ward, Richard Riegel, Ric Siegel, Robert Christgau, Richard Meltzer, Nick Tosches, Greil Marcus, Jeffrey Morgan, Richard C...
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Charts & awards – Billboard singles, Allmusic. Azerrad, Our Band, p. 276. Morthland & Patoski, "Feeding the Fish: An Oral History of the Butthole Surfers"...
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