Immediately following the fatal ceiling collapse, Governor Mitt Romney ordered a stem-to-stern safety audit conducted by the Illinois engineering firm of Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. to look for additional areas of risk.

* 2008 – The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency.

* 1900 – Adlai Stevenson, American politician, 31st Governor of Illinois ( d. 1965 )

Even when it deadlocked for several ballots between Illinois Governor Frank Lowden and General Leonard Wood, few delegates seriously considered Hoover as a compromise choice.

* 2003 – Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois ' death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.

With the aid of his advocate in Washington, DC, Elihu B. Washburne, Grant was promoted to Colonel by Governor Richard Yates on June 14, 1861, and put in charge of the unruly Twenty-first Illinois volunteer regiment.

* Dwight Green, Governor of Illinois and Capone prosecutor

* July 20 – Ninian Edwards – Governor of Illinois and Senator from Illinois ( b. 1775 )

** The Illinois Governor, William Stratton, signs the " Loyalty Oath Act ", passed by the State Legislature, which mandates all public employees take a loyalty oath to Illinois and the United States, or lose their jobs.

* March 17 – Ninian Edwards, Governor of Illinois and Senator from Illinois ( d. 1833 )

The President's move was opposed by the Democratic Governor of Illinois, John Altgeld.

One of the leaders of the silver movement was Illinois Governor Altgeld ; a native of Germany, he was constitutionally barred from the presidency by his foreign birth.

On the fifth ballot, the Illinois delegation, led by Governor Altgeld, switched its votes from Bland to Bryan.

He was appointed by Governor Adlai Stevenson as head of the Illinois Department of Finance.

" However, in January 1973, former Illinois Racing Board Chairman William S. Miller testified that Daley had " induced " him to bribe Illinois Governor Otto Kerner.

Daley and Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich held a joint press conference on January 17, 2006 calling for a state-wide ban on the manufacture, possession, and delivery of semiautomatic assault weapons.

Ohio Governor William Dennison, Jr. charged him with a mission to travel to Illinois to acquire musketry and to negotiate with the Governors of Illinois and Indiana for the consolidation of troops.

Image: Frank O Lowden portrait. jpg | Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois

The race was wide open, and soon the convention deadlocked between Major General Leonard Wood and Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois.

* 1905 – Pat Brown, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Governor of California ( d. 1996 )

** Pat Brown, Governor of California ( b. 1905 )

The major candidates for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination were Kennedy, Governor Pat Brown of California, Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson, Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon and Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota.

Eastland was first appointed to the Senate in 1941 by Governor Paul B. Johnson, Sr., following the death of Senator Pat Harrison, but Eastland did not run in the special election for the seat later in the year ; it was won by 2nd District Congressman Wall Doxey.

In 2010, Republican Governor Tom Corbett and Senator Pat Toomey won 55 % and 50. 19 % of the vote.

* 1992-93 California Governor Pete Wilson was targeted for recall by the Bite ' Em Back campaign, which was a grassroots effort that came about as a result of a piece by San Jose Mercury News columnist Pat Dillon, in response to the then-ongoing California budgetary crisis.

He is the son of Pat Brown, the 32nd Governor of California.

Brown was born in San Francisco, California, as the only son of four siblings born to Bernice Layne Brown, and District Attorney of San Francisco and later Governor of California, Edmund G. " Pat " Brown, Sr. Jerry Brown is Irish through his paternal grandfather and German through his paternal grandmother.

## Governor of Illinois ( Pat Quinn )

Prior to elected service, she was appointed by then-California Governor Pat Brown to serve as a member of the California Women's Parole Board.

Notable literary prizes for English Canadian poetry include the Governor General's Awards, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Gerald Lampert Award, Pat Lowther Award.

* Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida ( 2004 ), ISBN 0-7710-1591-7 ( winner of the 2004 Governor General's Award, the 2005 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2005 Pat Lowther Award )

The current Governor of Illinois is Pat Quinn, a Democrat who became governor upon the vote of the Illinois Senate to remove Rod Blagojevich from office, and then was elected to a full term in 2010.

After new legislation passed in the state house and senate in 1921, Governor Pat Neff vetoed it, citing hard financial times in West Texas.

Governor Pat Neff, Amon G. Carter, Reverend E. E. Robinson, Colonel Ernest O. Thompson, and Representative R. M. Chitwood spoke at the event.

Murphy was then appointed by Democratic Governor Pat Brown to serve the remaining two days of Salinger's term.

Wilson was re-elected to a second gubernatorial term in 1994, gaining 55 per cent of the vote in his race against Democrat Kathleen Brown, daughter of former California Governor Pat Brown.

Two years later, Wilson became, to date, the most recent Governor to speak at a California gubernatorial funeral, that of former Governor Pat Brown.

After the riots, Yorty challenged incumbent Democratic Governor Edmund G. ( Pat ) Brown in the 1966 gubernatorial primary.

After North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue announced that she would not run for a second term in 2012, Bowles was mentioned as a possible candidate, and polling put him almost even with likely Republican nominee Pat McCrory.

* Pat Brown ( 1905 – 1996 ), Edmund G. Brown, Sr., the 32nd Governor of California

* Jerry Brown ( born 1938 ), Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Pat Brown's son and the 34th and 39th Governor of California

In 2008, McMahan stepped down from his position as an RNC national committeeman, to assist Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory's bid to become North Carolina Governor.