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Galesburg Mayor Peter Schwartzman recently competed in the U.S. National Scrabble Championship.

Schwartzman finished 35th in the top division and is currently ranked third among Scrabble players in Illinois.

In addition to being a politician, Schwartzman is an environmental sciences professor at Knox College.

He incorporates his passion for the game into his life by teaching a course on word games and co-directing a local tournament.

Galesburg resident Peter Schwartzman is a man of many hats.

Some you might expect — father, teacher, author, politician — and one you might not — nationally-ranked competitive Scrabble player.

The crossword-styled board game, invented by American architect Alfred Mosher Butts in 1931, was first published in 1948. Since that time, Scr

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