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46th Illinois General Assembly
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The Illinois State Capitol
Overview
Meeting place	Springfield, Illinois
Term	1909 – 1911
Election	1908
Illinois Senate
President	John G. Oglesby, Republican
President pro tempore	Robert S. Hamilton, Republican
Illinois House of Representatives
Speaker	Edward D. Shurtleff, Republican

The 46th Illinois General Assembly met from 1909 to 1911. John G. Oglesby of Decatur was the Lieutenant Governor of Illinois and thus ex officio President of the Senate. Robert S. Hamilton of Marissa was President pro tempore of the Senate. Edward D. Shurtleff of Marengo 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 and would not be reapportioned again until 1947.

The counties of each district were as follows:

• 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

See also

• List of Illinois state legislatures

Notes

1. This arrangement was discontinued with the adoption of the current Constitution of Illinois in 1970, effective 1973.

References

1. Almanac p. 823
2. Devine, Michael J. "State Politics". Encyclopedia of Chicago.
3. Almanac pp. 821–822

Bibliography

• James Langland, M.A. (1920). The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year-Book for 1921. Chicago, IL: The Chicago Daily News Company.

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