Governors of Illinois

A list of governors from the state of Illinois.[1]

Name |  Party  |  Years

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Shadrack Bond |  Democratic Republican  |  1818-1822
Edward Coles |  Democratic Republican  |  1822-1826
Ninian Edwards |  Democratic Republican  |  1826-1830
John Reynolds |  Democrat  |  1830-1834
William Lee Davidson Ewing |  Democrat  |  1834
Joseph Duncan |  Democrat  |  1834-1838
Thomas Carlin |  Democrat  |  1838-1842
Thomas Ford |  Democrat  |  1842-1846
Augustus C. French |  Democrat  |  1846-1853
Joel Aldrich Matteson |  Democrat  |  1853-1857
William Henry Bissell |  Democrat/Republican  |  1857-1860
John Wood |  Republican  |  1860-1861
Richard Yates |  Republican  |  1861-1865
Richard James Oglesby |  Republican  |  1865-1869, 1873, 1885-1889
John McAuley Palmer |  Republican/Democrat  |  1869-1873
John Lourie Beveridge |  Republican  |  1873-1877
Shelby Moore Cullom |  Republican  |  1877-1883
John Marshall Hamilton |  Republican  |  1883-1885
Joseph Wilson Fifer |  Republican  |  1889-1893
John Peter Altgeld |  Democrat  |  1893-1897
John Riley Tanner |  Republican  |  1897-1901
Richard Yates, Jr. |  Republican  |  1901-1905
Charles Samuel Deneen |  Republican  |  1905-1913
Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne |  Democrat  |  1913-1917
Frank Orren Lowden |  Republican  |  1917-1921
Lennington Small |  Republican  |  1921-1929
Louis Lincoln Emmerson |  Republican  |  1929-1933
Henry Horner |  Democrat  |  1933-1940
John Henry Stelle |  Democrat  |  1940-1941
Dwight Herbert Green |  Republican  |  1941-1949
Adlai E. Stevenson II |  Democrat  |  1949-1953
William Grant Stratton |  Republican  |  1953-1961
Otto Kerner |  Democrat  |  1961-1968
Samuel H. Shapiro |  Democrat  |  1968-1969
Richard Buell Ogilvie |  Republican  |  1969-1973
Daniel Walker |  Democrat  |  1973-1977
James Robert Thompson |  Republican  |  1977-1991
Jim Edgar |  Republican  |  1991-1999
George H. Ryan |  Republican  |  1999-2003
Rod Blagojevich |  Democrat  |  2003-2009
Patrick Quinn |  Democrat  |  2009–present

## See also[edit]

* State Governors

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=IL

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