Democratic-Republican/Adams

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States . He served as an American diplomat, Senator, and Congressional representative. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. Adams was the son of former...

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Jacksonian democracy

Jacksonian democracy is the political movement toward greater democracy for the common man typified by American politician Andrew Jackson and his supporters. Jackson's policies followed the era of Jeffersonian democracy which dominated the previous political era. The Democratic-Republican Party of...

 Era

• 1818 Shadrach Bond
  Shadrach Bond
  Shadrach Bond was a representative from Illinois Territory to the United States Congress. In 1818, he was elected the first Governor of Illinois, becoming the new state's first chief executive...
  
  
• 1822 Edward Coles
  Edward Coles
  Edward Coles manumitted his slaves in 1819, was secretary to James Madison , neighbor and anti-slavery associate of Thomas Jefferson and was the second Governor of Illinois, serving from 1822 to 1826...
  
  
• 1826 Ninian Edwards
  Ninian Edwards
  Ninian Edwards was a founding political figure of the state of Illinois. He served as the first and only governor of the Illinois Territory from 1809 to 1818, as one of the first two United States Senators from Illinois from 1818 to 1824, and as the third Governor of Illinois from 1826 to 1830...
  
  
• 1830 John Reynolds
  John Reynolds (U.S. politician)
  John Reynolds was a United States politician from the state of Illinois. He was one of the original four justices of the Illinois Supreme Court, 1818–1825, a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1826–1830, 1846–1848, and 1852–1854 , and the 4th Illinois Governor from 1830–1834...
  
  
• 1834 Joseph Duncan
  Joseph Duncan (politician)
  Joseph Duncan was a U.S. politician. He served as the sixth Governor of Illinois from 1834 to 1838. He was a Democrat and a two-term U.S. Representative....
  
  

Modern Democratic Party era

• 1838 Thomas Carlin
  Thomas Carlin
  Thomas Carlin was the seventh Governor of Illinois, serving from 1838 to 1842. Born in 1789 in Frankfort, Kentucky, he served in both houses of the Illinois General Assembly, and was instrumental in obtaining passage of a bill in January 1829 creating Macoupin County. The city of Carlinville,...
  
  
• 1842 Thomas Ford
  Thomas Ford (politician)
  Thomas Ford was the eighth Governor of Illinois, and served in this capacity from 1842 to 1846. A Democrat, he is remembered largely for his involvement in the death of Joseph Smith, Jr., and the subsequent Illinois Mormon War...
  
  
• 1846 Augustus C. French
  Augustus C. French
  Augustus Chaflin French was the ninth Governor of the U.S. state of Illinois from 1846 until 1853. He is best known for his fiscal policies, which eliminated the state's debt by the end of his administration, and for the lack of scandals during his administration...
  
  
• 1848 Augustus C. French
  Augustus C. French
  Augustus Chaflin French was the ninth Governor of the U.S. state of Illinois from 1846 until 1853. He is best known for his fiscal policies, which eliminated the state's debt by the end of his administration, and for the lack of scandals during his administration...
  
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• 1852 Joel Aldrich Matteson
  Joel Aldrich Matteson
  Joel Aldrich Matteson was the tenth Governor of Illinois, serving from 1853 to 1857. In 1855, he became the first governor to reside in the Illinois Executive Mansion. After his term as governor ended he was for many years the president of the Chicago and Alton Railroad...
  
  
• 1856 William Alexander Richardson
  William Alexander Richardson
  William Alexander Richardson was a prominent Illinois Democrat politician before and during the American Civil War....
  
  
• 1860 James C. Allen
  James C. Allen
  James Cameron Allen was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Shelby County, Kentucky, Allen attended the public schools.He moved to Indiana in 1830.He studied law....
  
  
• 1864 James C. Robinson
  James Carroll Robinson
  James Carroll Robinson was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born near Paris, Illinois, Robinson moved to Clark County, Illinois, with his parents in 1825.He received a limited schooling....
  
  
• 1868 John R. Eden
  John R. Eden
  John Rice Eden was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Bath County, Kentucky, Eden moved with his parents to Indiana.He attended the public schools.He studied law....
  
  
• 1872
• 1876 Lewis Steward
  Lewis Steward
  Lewis Steward was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born near Hollisterville, Pennsylvania, Steward attended the common schools.In 1838 moved with his parents to Kendall County, Illinois.He studied law....
  
  
• 1880 Lyman Trumbull
  Lyman Trumbull
  Lyman Trumbull was a United States Senator from Illinois during the American Civil War, and co-author of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.-Education and early career:...
  
  
• 1884 Carter H. Harrison, Sr.
• 1888 John M. Palmer
  John M. Palmer (politician)
  John McAuley Palmer , was an Illinois resident, an American Civil War General who fought for the Union, the 15th Governor of Illinois, and presidential candidate of the National Democratic Party in the 1896 election on a platform to defend the gold standard, free trade, and limited...
  
  
• 1892 John Peter Altgeld
  John Peter Altgeld
  John Peter Altgeld was the 20th Governor of the U.S. state of Illinois from 1893 until 1897. He was the first Democratic governor of that state since the 1850s...
  
  
• 1896 John Peter Altgeld
  John Peter Altgeld
  John Peter Altgeld was the 20th Governor of the U.S. state of Illinois from 1893 until 1897. He was the first Democratic governor of that state since the 1850s...
  
  
• 1900 Samuel Alschuler
  Samuel Alschuler
  Samuel Alschuler was a United States federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit....
  
  
• 1904 Lawrence B. Stringer
  Lawrence B. Stringer
  Lawrence Beaumont Stringer was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born near Atlantic City, New Jersey, Stringer moved with his parents to Lincoln, Illinois, in 1876.He attended the public schools....
  
  
• 1908 Adlai E. Stevenson I
• 1912 Edward F. Dunne
  Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne
  Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne was an American politician who was the 24th Governor of Illinois from 1913 to 1917 and previously served as the 38th mayor of Chicago from April 5, 1905 to 1907.-Early years:...
  
  
• 1916 Edward F. Dunne
  Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne
  Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne was an American politician who was the 24th Governor of Illinois from 1913 to 1917 and previously served as the 38th mayor of Chicago from April 5, 1905 to 1907.-Early years:...
  
  
• 1920 James Hamilton Lewis
• 1924 Norman L. Jones
• 1928 Floyd E. Thompson
• 1932 Henry Horner
  Henry Horner
  Henry Horner was the 28th Governor of Illinois, serving from 1933 to 1940, when he died in office. Horner was the first Jewish governor of Illinois.- Political biography :...
  
  
• 1936 Henry Horner
  Henry Horner
  Henry Horner was the 28th Governor of Illinois, serving from 1933 to 1940, when he died in office. Horner was the first Jewish governor of Illinois.- Political biography :...
  
  
• 1940 Harry Hershey
• 1944 Thomas J. Courtney
  Thomas J. Courtney
  Thomas J. Courtney was an influential Illinois Democratic politician and attorney for roughly 50 years in the mid-20th Century....
  
  
• 1948 Adlai E. Stevenson II
• 1952 Sherwood Dixon
  Sherwood Dixon
  John Sherwood Dixon was an American politician from Illinois, member of the Democratic Party.Born in Dixon...
  
  
• 1956 Richard Austin
  Richard Bevan Austin
  Richard Bevan Austin was a United States federal judge.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Austin received a Ph.B. from Denison University in 1923 and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1926...
  
  
• 1960 Otto Kerner, Jr.
  Otto Kerner, Jr.
  Otto Kerner, Jr. was the 33rd Governor of Illinois from 1961 to 1968. He is best known for chairing the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders and for accepting bribes....
  
  
• 1964 Otto Kerner, Jr.
  Otto Kerner, Jr.
  Otto Kerner, Jr. was the 33rd Governor of Illinois from 1961 to 1968. He is best known for chairing the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders and for accepting bribes....
  
  
• 1968 Samuel H. Shapiro
  Samuel H. Shapiro
  Samuel Harvey Shapiro was the 34th Governor of Illinois, serving from 1968 to 1969. He was a member of the Democratic Party....
  
  
• 1972 Daniel Walker
  Daniel Walker
  Daniel Walker was the 36th Governor of the U.S. state of Illinois from 1973 to 1977.-Early life and career:He was born in Washington, D.C. and raised near San Diego, California. He was the second Governor of Illinois to graduate from the United States Naval Academy. He served as a naval officer in...
  
  
• 1976 Michael Howlett
  Michael Howlett
  Michael J. Howlett, Sr. was a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Illinois, who was elected several times to statewide office.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1978 Michael Bakalis
  Michael Bakalis
  Michael J. Bakalis is an American academic and politician. He was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Illinois in 1978, losing to incumbent Republican governor James R. Thompson....
  
  
• 1982 Adlai E. Stevenson III
  Adlai Stevenson III
  Adlai Ewing Stevenson III is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented the state of Illinois in the United States Senate from 1970 until 1981.-Education, military service, and early career:...
  
  
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• 1990 Neil Hartigan
  Neil Hartigan
  Neil F. Hartigan is an Illinois Democrat who has served as Illinois Attorney General, the 40th Lieutenant Governor, and a judge of the Illinois Appellate Court. Hartigan also was the Democratic nominee for governor in 1990 but lost the race to Republican Jim Edgar.-Background:Hartigan grew up in...
  
  
• 1994 Dawn Clark Netsch
  Dawn Clark Netsch
  Dawn Clark Netsch is an Illinois professor of law and politician. A member of the Democratic Party in the United States, she served in the Illinois State Senate, as Illinois Comptroller and in 1994 was the first woman to be nominated by a major political party to run for Governor of...
  
  
• 1998 Glenn Poshard
  Glenn Poshard
  Glenn Poshard is a former Illinois State Senator, U.S. Congressman, Gubernatorial Candidate, and is currently President of the Southern Illinois University system.-Early career:...
  
  
• 2002 Rod Blagojevich
  Rod Blagojevich
  Rod R. Blagojevich is an American politician who served as the 40th Governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009. A Democrat, Blagojevich was a State Representative before being elected to the United States House of Representatives representing parts of Chicago...
  
  
• 2006 Rod Blagojevich
  Rod Blagojevich
  Rod R. Blagojevich is an American politician who served as the 40th Governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009. A Democrat, Blagojevich was a State Representative before being elected to the United States House of Representatives representing parts of Chicago...
  
  
• 2010 Pat Quinn
  Pat Quinn (politician)
  Patrick Joseph "Pat" Quinn III is the 41st and current Governor of Illinois. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Previously elected three times to statewide office, Quinn was the sitting lieutenant governor and became governor on January 29, 2009, when the previous governor, Rod Blagojevich,...
  
  (general election November, 2010)