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 |