List of Illinois secretaries of state

This is a list of all the people who have served as Illinois Secretary of State.^[1]

#	Name	Term	Party
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	Democratic
8	Lyman Trumbull	1841–1843	Democratic
9	Thompson Campbell	1843–1846	Democratic
10	Horace S. Cooley	1846–1850	Democratic
11	David L. Gregg	1850–1853	Democratic
12	Alexander Starne	1853–1857	Democratic
13	Ozias M. Hatch	1857–1865	Republican
14	Sharon Tyndale	1865–1869	Republican
15	Edward Rummel	1869–1873	Republican
16	George H. Harlow	1873–1881	Republican
17	Henry D. Dement	1881–1889	Republican
18	Isaac N. Pearson	1889–1893	Republican
19	William H. Hinrichsen	1893–1897	Democratic
20	James A. Rose	1897–1912	Republican
21	Cornelius J. Doyle	1912–1913	Republican
22	Harry Woods	1913–1914	Democratic
23	Lewis G. Stevenson	1914–1917	Democratic
24	Louis L. Emmerson	1917–1929	Republican
25	William J. Stratton	1929–1933	Republican
26	Edward J. Hughes	1933–1944	Democratic
27	Richard Yates Rowe	1944–1945	Republican
28	Edward J. Barrett	1945–1953	Democratic
29	Charles F. Carpentier	1953–1964	Republican
30	William H. Chamberlain	1964–1965	Democratic
31	Paul Powell	1965–1970	Democratic
32	John W. Lewis, Jr.	1970–1973	Republican
33	Michael J. Howlett	1973–1977	Democratic
34	Alan J. Dixon	1977–1981	Democratic
35	James Edgar	1981–1991	Republican
36	George H. Ryan	1991–1999	Republican
37	Jesse White	1999–present	Democratic

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