Major National Office-Holders Buried in Illinois
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Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States, 1861-1865
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King Petar II Karageorgevich
King of Yugoslavia, 1934-1945
The only European monarch buried in the United States.
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Charles Gates Dawes
Vice-President of the United States, 1925-1929
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson I
Vice-President of the United States, 1893-1897
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Melville Weston Fuller
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1888-1910
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David Davis
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1862-1877
President pro tempore of the Senate, 1881-1883
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Scott Wike Lucas
Senate Majority Leader, 1949-1951
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Everett McKinley Dirksen
Senate Minority Leader, 1961-1969
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Henry Thomas Rainey
Speaker of the House, 1933-1934
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Other Prominent National Political Figures
- Stephen A. Douglas,
(Northern) Democratic Candidate for President of the United States,
1860
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson II,
Democratic Candidate for President of the United States,
1952 and 1956
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Elihu Benjamin Washburne,
Secretary of State, 1869
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Lyman J. Gage,
Secretary of the Treasury, 1897-1902
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Franklin MacVeagh,
Secretary of the Treasury, 1909-1913
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Joseph Gurney Cannon,
Speaker of the House, 1903-1909
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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