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 |
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