47th Illinois General Assembly

47th Illinois General Assembly
47th Illinois General Assembly
	The Illinois State Capitol
Overview
Meeting place	Springfield, Illinois
Term	1911 – 1913
Election	1910
Illinois Senate
President	John G. Oglesby, Republican
President pro tempore	Henry M. Dunlap, Republican
Illinois House of Representatives
Speaker	Charles A. Adkins, Republican

The 47th Illinois General Assembly met from 1911 to 1913. John G. Oglesby of Decatur was the Lieutenant Governor of Illinois and thus ex officio President of the Senate.^[a] Henry M. Dunlap was President pro tempore of the Senate. Charles A. Adkins of Bement was the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Districts

Illinois was divided into 51 districts, each of which elected one Senator and three Representatives. Districts were last reapportioned in 1901^[1] and would not be reapportioned again until 1947.^[2]

The counties of each district were as follows:^[3]

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th, 15th, 17th, 19th, 21st, 23rd, 25th, 27th, 29th, and 31st: Parts of Cook
8th: Lake, McHenry, and Boone
10th: Ogle and Winnebago
12th: Stephenson, Jo Daviess, and Carroll
14th: Kane and Kendall
16th: Marshall, Putnam, Livingston, and Woodford
18th: Peoria
20th: Grundy, Kankakee, and Iroquois
22nd: Vermillion and Edgar
24th: Champaign, Piatt, and Moultrie
26th: Ford and McLean
28th: DeWitt, Logan, and Macon
30th: Tazewell, Mason, Menard, Cass, Schuyler, and Brown
32nd: Hancock, McDonough, and Warren
33rd: Henderson, Mercer, and Rock Island
34th: Douglas, Coles, and Clark
35th: Whiteside, Lee, and DeKalb
36th: Adams, Pike, Calhoun, and Scott
37th: Henry, Stark, and Bureau
38th: Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, and Montgomery
39th: LaSalle
40th: Christian, Shelby, Cumberland, and Fayette
41st: DuPage and Will
42nd: Clinton, Marion, Clay, and Effingham
43rd: Knox and Fulton
44th: Jackson, Perry, Washington, Randolph, and Monroe
45th: Morgan and Sangamon
46th: Jefferson, Wayne, Richland, and Jasper
47th: Madison and Bond
48th: Hardin, Gallatin, White, Edwards, Wabash, Lawrence, and Crawford
49th: St. Clair
50th: Hamilton, Saline, Pope, Johnson, and Massac
51st: Franklin, Williamson, Union, Pulaski, and Alexander

Senate

District	Image	Senator	Party	First elected to the Senate	Notes
1st		Francis P. Brady	Republican	1910	Elected to the House in 1904, 1906, and 1910
2nd		Lewis C. Ball	Republican	1908
3rd		Samuel A. Ettelson	Republican	1906
4th		Al F. Gorman	Democratic	1908
5th		Walter Clyde Jones	Republican	1906
6th		William M. Brown	Republican	1904
7th		William H. MacLean	Republican	1910
8th		Albert J. Olson	Republican	1908
9th		Patrick J. Carroll	Democratic	1910
10th		Henry Andrus	Republican	1900
11th		Carl Lundberg	Republican	1902
12th		John C. McKenzie	Republican	1900	Resigned May 22, 1911
13th		Albert C. Clark	Republican	1902
14th		Thomas B. Stewart
15th		Edward J. Forst
16th		Ira M. Lish
17th		Edward J. Glackin
18th		John Dailey
19th		John T. Denvir
20th		Edward C. Curtis
21st		John E. Madigan
22nd		Martin B. Bailey
23rd		Niels Juul
24th		Henry M. Dunlap
25th		Johan Waage
26th		Frank H. Funk
27th		John Broderick
28th		James A. Henson
29th		John M. O'Connor
30th		Walter I. Manny
31st		Willett H. Cornwell
32nd		James F. Gibson
33rd		Frank A. Landee
34th		Stanton C. Pemberton
35th		John H. Gray
36th		Campbell S. Hearn
37th		H. S. Magill Jr.
38th		Frank W. Burton
39th		Henry W. Johnson
40th		F. J. Tossey
41st		Richard J. Barr
42nd		Erastus D. Telford
43rd		Charles F. Hurburgh
44th		Robert J. McElvain
45th		Logan Hay
46th		Albert E. Isley
47th		Edmond Beall
48th		J. A. Womack
49th		John M. Chamberlin
50th		W. O. Potter
51st		Douglas W. Helm