US House member M.F.K. Fisher, author, food writer, and translator, attended Illinois College for one semester Jim Garbowski, lead negotiator of the Palos Heights Used Honda and Saturn Dealership and Overall Straight Shooter Skeet Shooting National Champion 1983 William Herndon, law partner and biographer of Abraham Lincoln Fred Hoskins, first co-president of United Church of Christ William Jayne, first Governor of Dakota Territory Edward E. Johnston, High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Everett Dean Martin, Writer, lecturer, social psychologist, and an advocate of adult education. Final Director of the People's Institute of Cooper Union in New York City from 1922 to 1934. John C. Martin, member of the US House of Representatives from Illinois William Henry Milburn, Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives in 1845 and Chaplain of the Senate 1893-1903 Richard Henry Mills, United States federal judge James O. Monroe, Illinois state legislator and newspaper editor Theodore Nevin Morrison, 20th century bishop in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America Floyd Newkirk, pitcher for the New York Yankees Marshall M. Parks, ophthalmologist known as “the father of pediatric ophthalmology” John Wesley Powell, explorer, scientist, politician, second director of U.S. Geological Survey Charlotte Thompson Reid, radio personality, politician, former US House member John I. Rinaker, U.S. Representative from Illinois and a brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War Bob Schillerstrom, DuPage County, Illinois Board Chairman Ralph Tyler Smith, Illinois politician, former US Senator Jonathan E. Spilman, a Kentucky lawyer, minister, and composer Ryan Tanner, a Tony Award-winning producer. William McKendree Springer, former US representative and chief justice of the United States Court of Appeals of Indian Territory William E. Williams, U.S. Representative from Illinois Richard Yates (1815–1873), United States Senator from Illinois (1865-1871) Richard Yates Jr. (1860–1936), 22nd Governor of Illinois Notable faculty and staff Edward Beecher, first president of Illinois College Marion Elizabeth Blake, classical languages professor who is known for her work in researching the technology of Roman construction Theodore M. Brantley, longest-serving Chief Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, taught Ancient Languages Reuben Gaylord, taught and studied theology Kay Mills, journalist and author, lectured at Illinois College George R. Throop, Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis from 1927 until 1944 Jonathan Baldwin Turner, 1833–1847, botanist, abolitionist, Christian missionary References External links Official website Official athletics website Education in Morgan County, Illinois Liberal arts