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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-
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The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. It is the Internet's most comprehensive source for American political biography, listing 138,150 politicians, living and dead.

The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. Web hosting is provided by Paul Haas, of Ypsilanti, Michigan. The site opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 10, 2005.