First Ladies of Illinois

Funded through an Educate and Automate Grant from the Illinois State Library,
a division of the Office of the Secretary of State

Photos courtesy of the Illinois State Historical Library
Special thanks to: Kathryn Harris, Director; Bridget Lamont, Director Illinois State Library; Valerie Wilford, Director, Alliance Library System, and Shawn Edwards, Alliance Library System.

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	Achsah Bond wife of Shadrack Bond, the first governor of Illinois, 1818-1822
Photo Not Available	Sally Logan Roberts Coles wife of Edward Coles, the second governor of Illinois, 1822-1826 (Sally and Edward married in 1833 after Edward's term as governor)
Photo Not Available	Elvira Lane Edwards wife of Ninian Edwards, the third governor of Illinois, 1826-1830
	Catherine Reynolds wife John Reynolds, the fourth governor of Illinois, 1830-1834
Photo Not Available	Caroline Berry Ewing wife of William Lee Davidson Ewing, the fifth governor of Illinois, 1834
Photo Not Available	Elizabeth Caldwell Smith Duncan wife of Joseph Duncan, the sixth governor of Illinois, 1834-1838
	Rebecca Huitt Carlin wife of Thomas Carlin, the seventh governor of Illinois, 1838-1842
	Frances Hambaugh Ford wife of Thomas Ford, the eighth governor of Illinois, 1842-1846
	Lucy Southwick French wife of Augustus C. French, the ninth governor of Illinois, 1846-1853
	Mary Fish Matteson wife of Joel Aldrich Matteson, the tenth governor of Illinois, 1853-1857
Photo Not Available	Emily Susan Jones Bissell wife of William Harrison Bissell, the eleventh governor of Illinois, 1857-1860
Photo Not Available	Ann Streeter Wood wife of John Wood, the twelfth governor of Illinois, 1860-1861
	Catherine Geers Yates wife of Richard Yates, the thirteenth governor of Illinois, 1861-1865
	Emma Gillette Keays Oglesby wife of Richard James Oglesby, the fourteenth, sixteenth, and twentieth governor of Illinois, 1865-1869, 1873, 1885-1889
	Malinda Ann Neely Palmer wife of John McAuley Palmer, the fifteenth governor of Illinois, 1869-1873
Photo Not Available	Helen May Judson Beveridge wife of John Lourie Beveridge, the seventeenth governor of Illinois, 1873-1877
	Julia Fisher Cullom wife of Shelby Moore Cullom, the eighteenth governor of Illinois, 1877-1883
	Helen Williams Hamilton wife of John Marshall Hamilton, the nineteenth governor of Illinois, 1883-1885
	Gertrude Lewis Fifer wife of Joseph Wilson Fifer, the twenty-first governor of Illinois, 1889-1893
	Emma Ford Altgeld wife of John Peter Altgeld, the twenty-second governor of Illinois, 1893-1897
	Cora Edith English Tanner wife of John Riley Tanner, the twenty-third governor of Illiinois, 1897-1901
Photo Not Available	Helen Wadsworth Yates wife of Richard Yates, the twenty-fourth governor of Illinois, 1901-1905
	Bina Day Maloney Deneen wife of Charles Samuel Deneen, the twenty-fifth governor of Illinois, 1905-1913
Photo Not Available	Elizabeth Kelly Dunne wife of Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne, the twenty-sixth governor of Illinois, 1913-1917
Photo Not Available	Florence Pullman Lowden wife of Frank Orren Lowden, the twenty-seventh governor of Illinois, 1917-1921