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All Governors of Illinois

The head of the executive branch of the state of Illinois. They were first inaugurated on the first Monday in December until the 1848 constitution moved it to January. Governors couldn't succeed themselves until 1870. There has been 43 governors of Illinois for when Illinois was a state.
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Years Served
Party
Governor
1818 - 1822
Democratic Republican
Shadrach Bond
1822 - 1826
Independent
Edward Coles
1826 - 1830
Democratic Republican
Ninian Edwards
1830 - 1834
Democrat
John Reynolds
1834
Democrat
William Lee D. Ewing
1834 - 1838
Whig
Joseph Duncan
1838 - 1842
Democrat
Thomas Carlin
1842 - 1846
Democrat
Thomas Ford
1846 - 1853
Democrat
Augustus C. French
1853 - 1857
Democrat
Joel Aldrich Matteson
1857 - 1860
Republican
William Henry Bissell
1860 - 1861
Republican
John Wood
1861 - 1865
Republican
Richard Yates
1865 - 1869
Republican
Richard J. Oglesby
1869 - 1873
Republican
John M. Palmer
1873
Republican
Richard J. Oglesby
1873 - 1877
Republican
John Lourie Beveridge
1877 - 1883
Republican
Shelby Moore Cullom
1883 - 1885
Republican
John Marshall Hamilton
1885 - 1889
Republican
Richard J. Oglesby
1889 - 1893
Republican
Joseph W. Fifer
1893 - 1897
Democrat
John Peter Altgeld
1897 - 1901
Republican
John Riley Tanner
Years Served
Party
Governor
1901 - 1905
Republican
Richard Yates Jr.
1905 - 1913
Republican
Charles S. Deneen
1913 - 1917
Democrat
Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne
1917 - 1921
Republican
Frank Orren Lowden
1921 - 1929
Republican
Len Small
1929 - 1933
Republican
Louis Lincoln Emmerson
1933 - 1940
Democrat
Henry Horner
1940 - 1941
Democrat
John Henry Stelle
1941 - 1949
Republican
Dwight H. Green
1949 - 1953
Democrat
Adlai Stevenson II
1953 - 1961
Republican
William Stratton
1961 - 1968
Democrat
Otto Kerner Jr.
1968 - 1969
Democrat
Samuel H. Shapiro
1969 - 1973
Republican
Richard B. Ogilvie
1973 - 1977
Democrat
Dan Walker
1977 - 1991
Republican
Jim Thompson
1991 - 1999
Republican
Jim Edgar
1999 - 2003
Republican
George Ryan
2003 - 2009
Democrat
Rod Blagojevich
2009 - 2015
Democrat
Pat Quinn
2015 - 2019
Republican
Bruce Rauner
2019 - Present
Democrat
JB Pritzker
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