_State._
Shadrach Bond 1818-1822 Democrat
Edward Coles 1822-1826 "
Ninian Edwards 1826-1830 "
John Reynolds 1830-1834 "
Wm. L. D. Ewing (acting) 1834 "
Joseph Duncan 1834-1838 "
Thomas Carlin 1838-1842 "
Thomas Ford 1842-1846 "
Augustus C. French 1846-1853[7] "
Joel A. Matteson 1853-1857 "
William H. Bissell 1857-1860 Republican
John Wood (acting) 1860-1861 "
Richard Yates 1861-1865 "
Richard J. Oglesby 1865-1869 "
John M. Palmer 1869-1873 "
Richard J. Oglesby 1873 "
John L. Beveridge (acting) 1873-1877 "
Shelby M. Cullom 1877-1883 "
John M. Hamilton (acting) 1883-1885 "
Richard J. Oglesby 1885-1889 "
Joseph W. Fifer 1889-1893 "
John P. Altgeld 1893-1897 Democrat
John R. Tanner 1897-1901 Republican
Richard Yates 1901-1905 "
Charles S. Deneen 1905- "
BIBLIOGRAPHY.--There is no complete bibliography of the varied and
extensive literature relating to Illinois; but Richard Bowker's _State
Publications_, part ii. (New York, 1902), and the chapters of E. B.
Greene's _The Government of Illinois_ (New York, 1904) contain useful
lists of documents, monographs and books. Physiography is well
described in _The Illinois Glacial Lobe_ (U.S. Geological Survey,
Monograph, xxxviii.) and _The Water Resources of Illinois_ (U.S.
Geological Survey, Annual Report, xviii.). The Illinois State
Laboratory of Natural History, connected with the State University,
has published S. A. Forbes and R. E. Richardson's _Fishes of Illinois_
(Urbana, 1909). Information concerning economic conditions may be
derived from the volumes of the _Twelfth Census of the United States_,
which treat of Agriculture, Manufactures and Mines and Quarries: a
summary of agricultural conditions may be found in _Census Bulletin
No. 213_. Constitutional and administrative problems are discussed in
Elliott Anthony's _Constitutional History of Illinois_; Greene's _The
Government of Illinois_, and H. P. Judson's _The Government of
Illinois_ (New York, 1900). Among the reports of the state officials,
those of the Railroad and Ware House Commission, of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, and of the Commissioners of Charity are especially
valuable. There is an historical study of the problem of taxation,
entitled, "History of the Struggle in Illinois to realize Equality in
Taxation," by H. B. Hurd, in the _Publications of the Michigan
Political Science Association_ (1901). Local government is described
by Albert Shaw, _Local Government in Illinois_ (Johns Hopkins
University Studies, vol. i. No. 10). The _Blue Book of the State of
Illinois_ (Springfield, 1903); H. B. Hurd's Revised Statutes of
Illinois (Chicago, 1903), and Starr and Curtis, _Annotated Statutes of
the State of Illinois_ (Chicago, 1896), are also of value.
The standard histories of the state are J. Moses, _Illinois,
Historical and Statistical_ (2 vols., Chicago, 1889); and H. Davidson
and B. Stuvé, _Complete History of Illinois_ (Springfield, 1874).
Edward G. Mason's _Chapters from Illinois History_ (Chicago, 1901) is
of interest for the French explorations and the colonial period. C.
E. Boyd in "The County of Illinois" (_American Hist. Rev._ vol. iv.),
"Record Book and Papers of John Todd" (_Chicago Historical Society,
Collections_, iv.), C. E. Carter, _Great Britain and the Illinois
Country, 1763-1774_ (Washington, 1910), R. L. Schuyler, _The
Transition of Illinois to American Government_ (New York, 1909), and
W. H. Smith in _The St Clair Papers_ (Cincinnati, 1882), and the
_Territorial Records of Illinois_ ("Publications of the State
Historical Library," No. 3) are important for the period until 1818.
Governor Thomas Ford's _History of Illinois_ (Chicago, 1854), and
Governor John Reynolds's _My Own Times_ (1855), are contemporary
sources for 1818-1846; they should be supplemented by N. W. Edwards's
_History of Illinois (1778-1833)_ and _Life of Ninian Edwards_
(Springfield, 1870), E. B. Washburne's _Edwards Papers_ (Chicago,
1884), C. H. Garnett's _State Banks of Issue in Illinois_ (Univ. of
Ill., 1898), and N. G. Harris's _History of Negro Servitude in
Illinois_ (Chicago, 1904). C. E. Carr's _The Illini_ (Chicago, 1904)
is a study of conditions in Illinois from 1850-1860. W. W. Lusk's
_Politics and Politicians of Illinois, the Illinois Constitutional
Convention_ (1862), _the Granger Movement in Illinois_, and _Illinois
Railway Legislation and Common Control_ (University of Illinois
Studies), _Street Railway Legislation in Illinois_ (_Atlantic
Monthly_, vol. xciii.), are of value for conditions after 1860. The
publications of the Chicago Historical Society, of the "Fergus
Historical" series, of the State Historical Library, of the Wisconsin
Historical Society, also the Michigan Pioneer Collections, contain
valuable documents and essays.