List of Illinois Governors

Shadrach Bond	Dem.-Rep.	1818-1822
Edward Coles	Dem.-Rep.	1822-1826
Ninian Edwards	Dem.-Rep.	1826-1830
John Reynolds	Democratic	1830-1834
William Lee Davidson Ewing	Democratic	1834-1834
Joseph Duncan	Democratic	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
John Louri 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 R. Tanner	Republican	1897-1901
Richard Yates	Republican	1901-1905
Charles S. Deneen	Republican	1905-1913
Edward F. Dunne	Democratic	1913-1917
Frank O. Lowden	Republican	1917-1921
Len Small	Republican	1921-1929
Louis L. Emmerson	Republican	1929-1933
Henry Horner	Democratic	1933-1940
John H. Stelle	Democratic	1940-1941
Dwight H. Green	Republican	1941-1949
Adlai E. Stevenson	Democratic	1949-1953
William G. Stratton	Republican	1953-1961
Otto Kerner	Democratic	1961-1968
Samuel H. Shapiro	Democratic	1968-1969
Richard Buelle Ogilvie	Republican	1969-1973
Daniel Walker	Democratic	1973-1977
James R. Thompson	Republican	1977-1991
Jim Edgar	Republican	1991-1999
George H. Ryan	Republican	1999-2003
Rod R. Blagojevich	Democratic	2003-present