# 47th Illinois General Assembly

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. 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 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

## Senate

| District | 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 | | | |

### House

| District | Image | Representative | Party | First elected to the House | Notes |