John J. Nimrod
American politician
John J. Nimrod (May 1, 1922 – January 4, 2009) was an Assyrian American minority rights activist and Illinois state senator.
Career
Born in Chicago to Assyrian parents who had emigrated from Iran's northwest Urmiah region, John Nimrod was for three decades a leading international figure actively working for Assyrian survival in the Middle East, cultural and educational advances in American diaspora, and the cause of minorities from Uighurs to Tibetans and Assyrians who remain officially unrepresented in world political fora. He served for many years as a leading figure in UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization), the world body that presses for the rights of such people, often scattered from their homelands as a result of persecution.
He began his public career working in political circles in the northern Chicago suburbs, served as committeeman and Niles Township Supervisor, and later served in the Illinois State Senate from District 4 (1973 to 1983). An early advocate of solar power, he worked to revise the Illinois mental health code as a Republican state senator. He also sponsored a bill to have the pledge of allegiance said in schools every day.
During his years in Illinois politics, he formed a network within state and city government that allowed him to later advance the work of the Assyrian Universal Alliance Foundation (AUAF), a cultural and educational organization, based in Chicago, and initially funded by Helen Nimrod James Schwarten (1910–1999), his sister. The AUAF funds scholarship programs for Chicago area Assyrian students, publication of works about Assyrians in English and Assyrian Aramaic, the language of the modern Assyrians, and sponsors other cultural activities such as the series of DVDs produced by Lina Yakubova about Assyrian communities in the locations to which they have been scattered since the genocide of World War I. Nimrod served as the key person, in his capacity as the president of the AUAF since 1999, to solicit and distribute funding for underprivileged Chicagoans from state and city welfare funds. Particularly strengthened by coming under the wing of the AUAF is Ashurbanipal Library, the only publicly accessible Assyrian library in diaspora.
A key organization to which Nimrod devoted the last twenty years of his life was the Assyrian Universal Alliance, the umbrella organization of Assyrians internationally, formed in 1968 in France.
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