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Jim Edgar in 2012. Edgar, was the state’s 38th governor. He also served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1976 to 1979 and as Illinois secretary of state from 1981 to 1991. After retiring from office, he was a resident fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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