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Major National Office-Holders Buried in Illinois

	Abraham Lincoln President of the United States, 1861-1865 Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield Illinois
	King Petar II Karageorgevich King of Yugoslavia, 1934-1945 The only European monarch buried in the United States. St. Sava Orthodox Monastery, Libertyville Illinois
	Charles Gates Dawes Vice-President of the United States, 1925-1929 Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago Illinois
	Adlai Ewing Stevenson I Vice-President of the United States, 1893-1897 Evergreen Cemetery, Bloomington Illinois
	Melville Weston Fuller Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1888-1910 Graceland Cemetery, Chicago Illinois
	David Davis Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1862-1877 President pro tempore of the Senate, 1881-1883 Evergreen Cemetery, Bloomington Illinois
	Scott Wike Lucas Senate Majority Leader, 1949-1951 Laurel Hill Cemetery, Havana Illinois
	Everett McKinley Dirksen Senate Minority Leader, 1961-1969 Glendale Memorial Gardens, Pekin Illinois
	Henry Thomas Rainey Speaker of the House, 1933-1934 Carrollton City Cemetery

Other Prominent National Political Figures

• Stephen A. Douglas, (Northern) Democratic Candidate for President of the United States, 1860
• Adlai Ewing Stevenson II, Democratic Candidate for President of the United States, 1952 and 1956
• Elihu Benjamin Washburne, Secretary of State, 1869 (fg)
• Lyman J. Gage, Secretary of the Treasury, 1897-1902
• Franklin MacVeagh, Secretary of the Treasury, 1909-1913
• Joseph Gurney Cannon, Speaker of the House, 1903-1909
• John A. Logan, Republican Candidate for Vice-President of the United States, 1884

See also the lists of Illinois Governors, Illinois Senators, and Chicago Mayors