If I recall correctly.
Yes; I will need to find source, but I just read that he so influential that he made somewhat of a “deathbed” plea (don’t remember if he was very ill or actually dying) to voters and I think the quote was “and the voters responded.”
Sounded quite dramatic if I recall, & which election? have to find out; Illinois Senate or US Senate? It is probably on one of the 80 tabs I still have open.