List of Illinois Governors
  1. Shadrach Bond (1818-1822)
  2. Edward Coles (1822-1826)
  3. Ninian Edwards (1826-1830)
  4. John Reynolds (1830-1834)
  5. William Lee D. Ewing (1834)
  6. Joseph Duncan (1834-1838)
  7. Thomas Carlin (1838-1842)
  8. Thomas Ford (1842-1846)
  9. Augustus C. French (1846-1853)
  10. Joel Aldrich Matteson (1853-1857)
  11. William Henry Bissell (1857-1860)
  12. John Wood (1860-1861)
  13. Richard Yates (1861-1865)
  14. Richard J. Oglesby (1865-1869)
  15. John M. Palmer (1869-1873)
  16. Richard J. Oglesby (1873)
  17. John Lourie Beveridge (1873-1877)
  18. Shelby Moore Cullom (1877-1883)
  19. John Marshall Hamilton (1883-1885)
  20. Richard J. Oglesby (1885-1889)
  21. Joseph W. Fifer (1889-1893)
  22. John Peter Altgeld (1893-1897)
  23. John R. Tanner (1897-1901)
  24. Richard Yates (1901-1905)
  25. Charles S. Deneen (1905-1913)
  26. Edward F. Dunne (1913-1917)
  27. Frank O. Lowden (1917-1921)
  28. Len Small (1921-1929)
  29. Louis L. Emmerson (1929-1933)
  30. Henry Horner (1933-1940)
  31. John H. Stelle (1940-1941)
  32. Dwight H. Green (1941-1949)
  33. Adlai E. Stevenson (1949-1953)
  34. William G. Stratton (1953-1961)
  35. Otto Kerner, Jr (1961-1968)
  36. Samuel H. Shapiro (1968-1969)
  37. Richard Buell Ogilvie (1969-1973)
  38. Daniel Walker (1973-1977)
  39. James R. Thompson (1977-1991)
  40. James Edgar (1991-1999)
  41. George H. Ryan (1999-2003)
  42. Rod R. Blagojevich (2003 - present)
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