1809-1818 Ninian Edwards
State Governors
1818-1822 Shadrach Bond
1822-1826 Edward Coles
1826-1830 Ninian Edwards
1830-1834 John Reynolds
1834-1834 William Lee Davidson Ewing
1834-1838 Joseph Duncan
1838-1842 Thomas Carlin
1842-1846 Thomas Ford
1846-1853 Augustus C. French
1853-1857 Joel Aldrich Matteson
1857-1860 William Harrison Bissell
1860-1861 John Wood
1861-1865 Richard Yates, Sr.
1865-1869 Richard J. Oglesby
1869-1873 John McAuley Palmer
1873-1873 Richard James Oglesby
1873-1877 John Lourie Beveridge
1877-1883 Shelby Moore Collum
1883-1885 John Marshall Hamilton
1885-1889 Richard J. Oglesby
1889-1893 Joseph Wilson Fifer
1893-1897 John P. Altgeld
1897-1901 John Riley Tanner
1901-1905 Richard Yates, Jr.
1905-1913 Charles Samuel Deneen
1913-1917 Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne
1917-1921 Frank Orren Lowden
1921-1929 Lennington “Len” Small
1929-1933 Louis L. Emerson
1933-1940 Henry Horner
1940-1941 John Henry Steele
1941-1949 Dwight Herbert Green
1949-1953 Adlai Ewing Stevenson
1953-1961 William Grant Stratton
1961-1968 Otto Kerner
1968-1969 Samuel H. Shapiro
1969-1973 Richard B. Ogilvie
1973-1977 Daniel Walker
1977-1991 James R.Thompson
1991-1999 James R. “Jim” Edgar
1999-2003 George H. Ryan
2003-2009 Rod R. Blagojevich
2009 now Pat Quinn
Reference
Illinois Trails History and Genealogy Project, The Governors of Illinois and Their Wives and Histories
