List of Illinois governors

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JB Pritzker, the current governor of Illinois

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

literature

  • Centennial Commission (Ed.): Governors of Illinois, 1818-1918 . Illinois State Journal Co., Springfield 1918 ( digitized )