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Illinois: Governors

Index of Politicians by Office Held or Sought

Governors of Illinois, 1818-2003 (May be incomplete!)
Shadrack Bond 1818-22 Edward Coles 1822-26 Ninian Edwards 1826-30 John Reynolds 1830-34 William Lee Davidson Ewing 1834 Joseph Duncan 1834-38 Thomas Carlin 1838-42 Thomas Ford 1842-46 Augustus C. French 1846-53 Joel Aldrich Matteson 1853-57 William Henry Bissell 1857-60 John Wood 1860-61 Richard Yates 1861-65 Richard J. Oglesby 1865-69 John M. Palmer 1869-73 Richard J. Oglesby 1873 John Lourie Beveridge 1873-77 Shelby M. Cullom 1877-83 John M. Hamilton 1883-85 Richard J. Oglesby 1885-89 Joseph W. Fifer 1889-93 John Peter Altgeld 1893-97 John R. Tanner 1897-1901 Richard Yates 1901-05 Charles S. Deneen 1905-13 Edward F. Dunne 1913-17 Frank O. Lowden 1917-21 Len Small 1921-29 Louis L. Emmerson 1929-33 Henry Horner 1933-40 John Stelle 1940-41 Dwight H. Green 1941-49 Adlai E. Stevenson 1949-53 William G. Stratton 1953-61 Otto Kerner 1961-68 Samuel H. Shapiro 1968-69 Richard Buell Ogilvie 1969-73 Daniel Walker 1973-77 James R. Thompson 1977-91 James Edgar 1991-99 George H. Ryan 1999-2003 Rod R. Blagojevich 2003-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

Governors of Illinois: Events and Candidates of the 1820's (may be incomplete!)

Governors of Illinois: Events and Candidates of the 1830's (may be incomplete!)

Governors of Illinois: Events and Candidates of the 1840's (may be incomplete!)

Governors of Illinois: Events and Candidates of the 1850's (may be incomplete!)

Governors of Illinois: Events and Candidates of the 1860's (may be incomplete!)

Governors of Illinois: Events and Candidates of the 1870's (may be incomplete!)

Governors of Illinois: Events and Candidates of the 1880's (may be incomplete!)

Governors of Illinois: Events and Candidates of the 1890's (may be incomplete!)

Governors of Illinois: Events and Candidates of the 1900's (may be incomplete!)

Governors of Illinois: Events and Candidates of the 1910's (may be incomplete!)

Governors of Illinois: Events and Candidates of the 1920's (may be incomplete!)

Governors of Illinois: Events and Candidates of the 1930's (may be incomplete!)

Governors of Illinois: Events and Candidates of the 1940's (may be incomplete!)

Governors of Illinois: Events and Candidates of the 1950's (may be incomplete!)

Governors of Illinois: Events and Candidates of the 1960's (may be incomplete!)

Governors of Illinois: Events and Candidates of the 1970's (may be incomplete!)

Governors of Illinois: Events and Candidates of the 1980's (may be incomplete!)

Governors of Illinois: Events and Candidates of the 1990's (may be incomplete!)

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