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Illinois: Secretaries of State


Illinois Secretaries of State, 1818-1999 (May be incomplete!)
Elias K. Kane 1818-22 Samuel D. Lockwood 1822-23 David Blackwell 1823-24 Morris Birkbeck 1824-25 George Forquer 1825-28 Alexander P. Field 1829-40 Stephen A. Douglas 1840-41 Lyman Trumbull 1841-43 Thompson Campbell 1843-46 Horace S. Cooley 1846-50 David L. Gregg 1850-53 Alexander Starne 1853-57 Ozias M. Hatch 1857-65 Sharon Tyndale 1865-69 Edward Rummell 1869-73 George H. Harlow 1873-81 Henry D. Dement 1881-89 Isaac N. Pearson 1889-93 William H. Hinrichsen 1893-97 James A. Rose 1897-1912 Cornelius J. Doyle 1912-13 Harry Woods 1913-14 Lewis G. Stevenson 1914-17 Louis L. Emmerson 1917-29 William J. Stratton 1929-33 Edward J. Hughes 1933-44 Richard Yates Rowe 1944-45 Edward J. Barrett 1945-53 Charles F. Carpentier 1953-64 William H. Chamberlain 1964-65 Paul Powell 1965-70 John W. Lewis 1970-73 Michael J. Howlett 1973-77 Alan J. Dixon 1977-81 James Edgar 1981-91 George H. Ryan 1991-99

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1850 Apr 2: Horace S. Cooley, died in office.
  • 1896: Finis E. Downing, defeated.
  • 1912: Cornelius J. Doyle, defeated.
  • 1912 May 29: James A. Rose, died in office.
  • 1914 Oct 11: Harry Woods, died in office.
  • 1932: Edward J. Hughes (Dem), elected.
  • 1936 Nov 3: Edward J. Hughes (Dem), elected; William J. Stratton (Rep), defeated; Stanley J. Piotrowicz (Union Progressive), defeated; Harry A. Crawford (Socialist), defeated; Harriet L. McBride (Prohibition), defeated; Sam French (Socialist Labor), defeated.
  • 1940 Nov 5: Edward J. Hughes (Dem), elected; Justus L. Johnson (Rep), defeated; Mordecai Shulman (Socialist), defeated; Harriet L. McBride (Prohibition), defeated.
  • 1944: William G. Stratton (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 1944 Jun 28: Edward J. Hughes, died in office.
  • 1944 Nov 7: Edward J. Barrett (Dem), elected; Arnold P. Benson (Rep), defeated; Louis Fisher (Socialist Labor), defeated; Robert W. Melven (Prohibition), defeated.
  • 1952: Harold R. Collier, defeated in primary.
  • 1956 Nov 6: Charles F. Carpentier (Rep), elected; David F. Mallett (Dem), defeated; Gregory P. Lyngas (Socialist Labor), defeated.
  • 1964 Apr 3: Charles F. Carpentier, died in office.
  • 1970 Oct 10: Paul Powell, died in office.
  • 1982: Jerry Cosentino, defeated.
  • 1990: Jerry Cosentino, defeated; George H. Ryan (Rep), elected.
  • 1994: George H. Ryan (Rep), elected.

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