List of Illinois governors
This list includes all of the governors of the US state of Illinois and the pre-existing Illinois Territory .
Illinois Territory
Surname | Term of office | Political party |
---|---|---|
Ninian Edwards | 1809-1818 | Democratic Republican Party |
State of Illinois
# | Surname | Term of office | Political party |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Shadrach Bond | 1818-1822 | Democratic Republican Party |
2 | Edward Coles | 1822-1826 | Democratic Republican Party |
3 | Ninian Edwards | 1826-1830 | Democratic Republican Party |
4th | John Reynolds | 1830-1834 | democrat |
5 | William Lee Davidson Ewing | 1834-1834 | democrat |
6th | Joseph Duncan | 1834-1838 | democrat |
7th | Thomas Carlin | 1838-1842 | democrat |
8th | Thomas Ford | 1842-1846 | democrat |
9 | Augustus Chaflin French | 1846-1853 | democrat |
10 | Joel Aldrich Matteson | 1853-1857 | democrat |
11 | William Henry Bissell | 1857-1860 | republican |
12 | John Wood | 1860-1861 | republican |
13 | Richard Yates Sr. | 1861-1865 | republican |
14th | Richard James Oglesby | 1865-1869 | republican |
15th | John McAuley Palmer | 1869-1873 | republican |
14th | Richard James Oglesby | 1873 | republican |
16 | John Lourie Beveridge | 1873-1877 | republican |
17th | Shelby Moore Cullom | 1877-1883 | republican |
18th | John Marshall Hamilton | 1883-1885 | republican |
14th | Richard James Oglesby | 1885-1889 | republican |
19th | Joseph Wilson Fifer | 1889-1893 | republican |
20th | John Peter Altgeld | 1893-1897 | democrat |
21st | John Riley Tanner | 1897-1901 | republican |
22nd | Richard Yates Jr. | 1901-1905 | republican |
23 | Charles Samuel Deneen | 1905-1913 | republican |
24 | Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne | 1913-1917 | democrat |
25th | Frank Orren Lowden | 1917-1921 | republican |
26th | Lennington Small | 1921-1929 | republican |
27 | Louis Lincoln Emmerson | 1929-1933 | republican |
28 | Henry Horner | 1933-1940 | democrat |
29 | John Henry body | 1940-1941 | democrat |
30th | Dwight Herbert Green | 1941-1949 | republican |
31 | Adlai Ewing Stevenson | 1949-1953 | democrat |
32 | William Grant Stratton | 1953-1961 | republican |
33 | Otto Kerner | 1961-1968 | democrat |
34 | Samuel Harvey Shapiro | 1968-1969 | democrat |
35 | Richard Buell Ogilvie | 1969-1973 | republican |
36 | Daniel Walker | 1973-1977 | democrat |
37 | James Robert Thompson | 1977-1991 | republican |
38 | James Edgar | 1991-1999 | republican |
39 | George Homer Ryan | 1999-2003 | republican |
40 | Milorad R. Blagojevich | 2003-2009 | democrat |
41 | Patrick Joseph Quinn | 2009-2015 | democrat |
42 | Bruce Rauner | 2015-2019 | republican |
43 | Jay Robert Pritzker | since 2019 | democrat |
See also
- List of Lieutenant Governors of Illinois
- List of United States Senators from Illinois
- List of members of the US House of Representatives from Illinois
literature
- Centennial Commission (Ed.): Governors of Illinois, 1818-1918 . Illinois State Journal Co., Springfield 1918 ( digitized )