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Governors of Illinois

Governor	Party	Term
Shadrach Bond	Independent	1818 - 1822
Edward Coles	Independent	1822 - 1826
Ninian Edwards	Adams-Clay Republican	1826 - 1830
John Reynolds	National Republican	1830 - 1834
William Lee D. Ewing	Democratic	1834 - 1834
Joseph Duncan	Whig	1834 - 1838
Thomas Carlin	Democratic	1838 - 1842
Thomas Ford	Democratic	1842 - 1846
Augustus C. French	Democratic	1846 - 1853
Joel Aldrich Matteson	Democratic	1853 - 1857
William Henry Bissell	Republican	1857 - 1860
John Wood	Republican	1860 - 1861
Richard Yates	Republican	1861 - 1865
Richard J. Oglesby	Republican	1865 - 1869
John M. Palmer	Republican	1869 - 1873
Richard J. Oglesby	Republican	1873 - 1873
John Lourie Beveridge	Republican	1873 - 1877
Shelby Moore Cullom	Republican	1877 - 1883
John Marshall Hamilton	Republican	1883 - 1885
Richard J. Oglesby	Republican	1885 - 1889
Joseph W. Fifer	Republican	1889 - 1893
John Peter Altgeld	Democratic	1893 - 1897
John Riley Tanner	Republican	1897 - 1901
Richard Yates Jr.	Republican	1901 - 1905
Charles S. Deneen	Republican	1905 - 1913
Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne	Democratic	1913 - 1917
Frank Orren Lowden	Republican	1917 - 1921
Len Small	Republican	1921 - 1929
Louis Lincoln Emmerson	Republican	1929 - 1933
Henry Horner	Democratic	1933 - 1940
John Henry Stelle	Democratic	1940 - 1941
Dwight H. Green	Republican	1941 - 1949
Adlai Stevenson II	Democratic	1949 - 1953
William Stratton	Republican	1953 - 1961
Otto Kerner Jr.	Democratic	1961 - 1968
Samuel H. Shapiro	Democratic	1968 - 1969
Richard B. Ogilvie	Republican	1969 - 1973
Dan Walker	Democratic	1973 - 1977
James R. Thompson	Republican	1977 - 1991
Jim Edgar	Republican	1991 - 1999
George Ryan	Republican	1999 - 2003
Rod Blagojevich	Democratic	2003 - 2009
Pat Quinn	Democratic	2009 - 2015
Bruce Rauner	Republican	2015 - 2019
J. B. Pritzker	Democratic	2019 -