Daniel Robert Graham is an American lawyer,author,and politician who served as the 38th governor of Florida from 1979 to 1987 and a United States senator from Florida from 1987 to 2005. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Thomas John Campbell is an American academic,educator,and politician. He is a professor of law at the Dale E. Fowler School of Law,and a professor of economics at the George Argyros School of Business and Economics,at Chapman University,in Orange,California.
Samuel Knox Skinner is an American politician,lawyer,and businessman. Skinner served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation and White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. Prior to the Bush administration,Skinner served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois under President Gerald R. Ford from 1975-1977,succeeding James R. Thompson.
The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (Kellogg) is the business school of Northwestern University,a private research university in Evanston,Illinois. It was founded in 1908 as the School of Commerce. Its faculty,alumni,and students have made significant contributions to fields such as marketing,management sciences,and decision sciences.
James Robert Thompson Jr. was an American politician,lobbyist,and federal prosecutor who served as the 37th governor of Illinois from 1977 to 1991. He was Illinois's longest-serving governor,having been elected to four consecutive terms and holding the office for fourteen years.
James Edgar is an American politician who was the 38th governor of Illinois from 1991 to 1999. A moderate Republican,he also served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1976 to 1979 and as Illinois Secretary of State from 1981 to 1991.
Lee Irwin Fisher is an American attorney,politician,and academic. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the 64th lieutenant governor of Ohio,with Governor Ted Strickland,from 2007 until 2011. He has served as Dean of Cleveland State University College of Law since 2017.
Mills Edwin Godwin Jr. was an American politician who was the 60th and 62nd governor of Virginia for two non-consecutive terms,from 1966 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1978.
Christopher George Kennedy is an American businessman,politician,and Chair of Joseph P. Kennedy Enterprises,Inc. He is a son of former U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy,a member of the Kennedy family. Kennedy served as Chair of the Board of Trustees for the University of Illinois from 2009 to 2015. Until April 2012,he was also president of Merchandise Mart Properties,a commercial property management firm based in Chicago.
Robert Nelson Clement is an American politician and academic administrator. He is a member of the Democratic Party and served in the United States House of Representatives,representing Tennessee,from 1988 until 2003,when he retired to run unsuccessfully for the United States Senate.
Lynn Morley Martin is an American businesswoman and former politician who served as the 21st United States secretary of labor from 1991 to 1993,under President George H. W. Bush. A member of the Republican Party,she previously represented Illinois's 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1991. Before her election to Congress,Martin served in both chambers of Illinois General Assembly;in the State House of Representatives from 1977 to 1979,as well as the State Senate from 1979 to 1980.
Roland Wallace Burris is an American retired Democratic politician and attorney who served as Attorney General of Illinois from 1991 to 1995. In January 2009,he was appointed a United States Senator,succeeding Barack Obama,who resigned to become president of the United States. Burris held this position until November 2010,retiring from front-line politics shortly after.
Jonathan Luther Jackson is an American politician,businessman,and activist serving as the U.S. representative for Illinois's 1st congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,he was previously the national spokesman for the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition,a financial analyst,and a partner in the Chicago-based beer distributorship River North Sales and Service.
The 1978 Illinois gubernatorial election were held in Illinois in November 7,1978. Republican James R. Thompson easily won a second term in office,defeating Democrat nominee Michael Bakalis by nearly 600,000 votes.
Tyrone Clarence "Ty" Fahner is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party he served as Illinois Attorney General from 1980 until 1983. He was appointed to the position by Governor James R. Thompson after the incumbent,William Scott,had been disqualified from office after being convicted of a tax crime.
The 1922 United States Senate election in Minnesota took place on November 7,1922. Farmer–Labor challenger Henrik Shipstead defeated incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Frank B. Kellogg and Democratic challenger Anna Dickie Olesen.
Elections were held in Illinois on Tuesday,November 7,1978.
Elections were held in Illinois on Tuesday,November 2,1976.
Donald H. Haider is an American business professor and politician. He has long been a business professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He ran in 1987 as a Republican nominee for mayor of Chicago.
James Dunlap Nowlan is an Illinois academic and politician.
