Paul Martin Simon was an American author and politician from Illinois. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1985 and in the United States Senate from 1985 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party,he unsuccessfully ran for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination.
Othell Maxie Burns Jr. is an American politician and academic from the state of Georgia. A member of the Republican Party,Burns has represented the 23rd district in the Georgia State Senate since January 2021. He previously served in the United States House of Representatives from 2003 to 2005,representing Georgia's 12th congressional district. From 2012 to 2017 he was the president of Gordon State College in Barnesville,Georgia.
The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University is the graduate business school of Northwestern University,a private research university in Evanston,Illinois. Founded in 1908 as the School of Commerce,Kellogg has the second-largest endowment of any business school.
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 14 years.
James Robert Edgar is an American politician who served as the 38th governor of Illinois from 1991 to 1999. A moderate Republican,he previously served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1977 to 1979 and as the 35th Secretary of State of Illinois from 1981 to 1991.
Christopher George Kennedy is an American businessman who is the chair of Joseph P. Kennedy Enterprises,Inc. A member of the prominent Kennedy family,he is a son of former United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy,and a nephew of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy and former U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy. From 2000 until 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.
Walter Marcus Pierce was an American politician,a Democrat,who served as the 17th Governor of Oregon and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Oregon's 2nd congressional district. A native of Illinois,he served in the Oregon State Senate before the governorship,and again after leaving the U.S. House. Pierce was an anti-Catholic supporter of compulsory public education and signed a law banning parochial schools,resulting in lawsuits and the United States Supreme Court case of Pierce v. Society of Sisters. He was also a eugenicist and supported Prohibition. He advocated unsuccessfully for a state income tax and vehicle license fee.
William Colridge Thompson Jr. is an American politician who served as the 42nd Comptroller of New York City;sworn into office on January 1,2002,he was reelected to serve a second term that began on January 1,2006. He did not seek re-election in 2009. Instead he ran for mayor,and he was succeeded as comptroller by John Liu. On June 15,2016,Thompson was appointed by New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo as chairman of the board of trustees of The City University of New York;his term ended in June 2022.
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 1986 Illinois gubernatorial election was held on November 4,1986. Republican candidate James R. Thompson won a fourth term in office,defeating the Illinois Solidarity Party nominee,former United States Senator Adlai Stevenson III,by around 400,000 votes.
The 1978 Illinois gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday,November 7,1978. Republican James R. Thompson easily won a second term in office,defeating Democratic nominee Michael Bakalis by nearly 600,000 votes.
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.
In the Chicago mayoral election of 1915,Republican William Hale Thompson defeated Democrat Robert Sweitzer.
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania were held on November 3,2020,to elect the 18 U.S. representatives from the state of Pennsylvania,one from each of the state's 18 congressional districts. The state's primary election occurred on June 2,2020. The elections coincided with the 2020 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.
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.
