Illinois Secretaries of State, 1818-2006 (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
Y. 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.
1852:
Buckner
S. Morris (Whig), defeated.
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.
1921:
William
F. Kruse (Socialist), defeated.
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.
1948:
William
G. Stratton (Rep), 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.
1964 Apr 14:
Walter
E. Pacanowski (Rep), defeated in primary.
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.
2006:
Dan
Rutherford (Rep), defeated.
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