List of Illinois secretaries of state

This is a list of all the people who have served as Illinois Secretary of State.

#	Name	Term
1	Elias K. Kane	1818–1822
2	Samuel D. Lockwood	1822–1823
3	David Blackwell	1823–1824
4	Morris Birkbeck	1824–1825
5	George Forquer	1825–1828
6	Alexander Pope Field	1829–1840
7	Stephen A. Douglas	1840–1841
8	Lyman Trumbull	1841–1843
9	Thompson Campbell	1843–1846
10	Horace S. Cooley	1846–1850
11	David L. Gregg	1850–1853
12	Alexander Starne	1853–1857
13	Ozias M. Hatch	1857–1865
14	Sharon Tyndale	1865–1869
15	Edward Rummell	1869–1873
16	George H. Harlow	1873–1881
17	Henry D. Dement	1881–1889
18	Isaac N. Pearson	1889–1893
19	William H. Hinrichsen	1893–1897
20	James A. Rose	1897–1912
21	Cornelius J. Doyle	1912–1913
22	Harry Woods	1913–1914
23	Lewis G. Stevenson	1914–1917
24	Louis L. Emmerson	1917–1929
25	William J. Stratton	1929–1933
26	Edward J. Hughes	1933–1944
27	Richard Yates Rowe	1944–1945
28	Edward J. Barrett	1945–1953
29	Charles F. Carpentier	1953–1964
30	William H. Chamberlain	1964–1965
31	Paul Powell	1965–1970
32	John W. Lewis	1970–1973
33	Michael J. Howlett	1973–1977
34	Alan J. Dixon	1977–1981
35	James Edgar	1981–1991
36	George H. Ryan	1991–1999
37	Jesse White	1999–present

External links

• Illinois Secretary of State – Official Website