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Monday, December 31, 2018
Wheezywaiter - Happy New Year!
Friday, December 21, 2018
Wheezywaiter - Freezy Waiter
Monday, December 10, 2018
Wheezywaiter - Lego my Blago
Shadrach Bond [DR] (1818-1822) - Great name, not a bad governor.
Edward Coles [I] (1822-1826) - Won a tight election, abolished slavery... pretty cool.
Ninian Edwards [DR] (1826-1830) - Poor relationship with Assembly and Natives... Bad.
John Reynolds [D] (1830-1834) - Favorite with General Jackson, so automatically Bad.
William Lee D. Ewing [D] (1834) - Served for fourteen days.
Joseph Duncan [W] (1834-1838) - Only Whig, supported National Bank. Okay.
Thomas Carlin [D] (1838-1842) - Worked Mormons and moving the capital...
Thomas Ford [D] (1842-1846) - Anti-Mormon, but worked resolve differences. Okay.
Augustus C. French [D] (1846-1853) - No scandals and got the state out of debt! Great!
Joel Aldrich Matteson [D] (1853-1857) - First governor marred with corruption scandal.
William Henry Bissell [R] (1857-1860) - First successful Republican, known for dueling.
John Wood [R] (1860-1861) - Eh. Cool beard.
Richard Yates [R] (1861-1865) - Very effective war governor.
Richard J. Oglesby [R] (1865-1869, 1873, 1885-1889) - Not much about him.
John M. Palmer [R] (1869-1873) - Fiercely independent.
John Lourie Beveridge [R] (1873-1877) - Had large opposition from Greenbacks... okay.
Shelby Moore Cullom [R] (1877-1883) - Not much about his governorship...
John Marshall Hamilton [R] (1883-1885) - He lost out to Oglesby above for the nomination.
Joseph W. Fifer [R] (1889-1893) - Freed a murderer to murder more people, which is awkward.
John Peter Altgeld [D] (1893-1897) - Leading figure in Progressive movement. Very Good.
John Riley Tanner [R] (1897-1901) - Very Progressive, but also pretty corrupt.
Richard Yates Jr. [R] (1901-1905) - Continued progressive policies...
Charles S. Deneen [R] (1905-1913) - Put down a race riot.
Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne [R] (1913-1917) - Very Irish and combated the Ku Klux Klan, cool.
Frank Orren Lowden [R] (1917-1921) - More race riots! Fun!
Len Small [R] (1921-1929) - Pardoned a lot of people and very corrupt, costing his job.
Louis Lincoln Emmerson [R] (1929-1933) - Great Depression really hurt him.
Henry Horner [D] (1933-1940) - Put sales tax and worked to stop corruption.
John Henry Stelle [D] (1940-1941) - Swiftly removed all former officials and so on...
Dwight H. Green [R] (1941-1949) - Governed during WWII, neglect of the mine disaster.
Adlai Stevenson II [D] (1949-1953) - Tried to run for president but failed twice. Good at speeches.
William Stratton [R](1953-1961) - Acquitted for tax evasion, but that's that...
Otto Kerner Jr. [D] (1961-1968) - Imprisoned for a federal crime.
Samuel H. Shapiro [D] (1968-1969) - Caretaker governor, basically.
Richard B. Ogilvie [R] (1969-1973) - Mafia fighting sheriff, created an income tax.
Dan Walker [D] (1973-1977) - Walked across Illinois, fought against Daley. Convicted.
James R. Thompson [R] (1977-1991) - Underfunded pensions, government freeze...
Jim Edgar [R] (1991-1999) - Another moderate Republican.
George Ryan [R] (1999-2003) - Another governor was convicted of prison.
Rod Blagojevich [D] (2003-2009) - Impeached and removed from office.
Pat Quinn [D] (2009-2015) - Abolish death penalty but... also question with corruption.
Bruce Rauner [R] (2015-2019) - Just a terrible Republican.
J.B. Pritzker [D] (2019-) - Future governor, but... corruption? Maybe?
Sunday, November 25, 2018
Wheezywaiter - Neti Pots
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Wheezywaiter - 82_Naps
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