First Yankee Governor in Illinois
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YoSam.
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Palestine, Illinois, was a filled with Southern people as the land office caused all to flow through here.
Waymark Code: WMKYB5
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 06/14/2014
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County of first: Crawford County
Location of marker: S. Pike St. & Grand Prairie St., Palestine
Marker erected by: The Citizens of Palestine and The Illinois State Historical Society
Date marker erected: 1962
Marker text:
GOV. AUGUSTUS C. FRENCH
On this site stood the home of Augustus C. French (1808-1864) when he was elected the ninth Governor of Illinois.
The early settlers in Illinois came mostly from southern states so that French, a native of New Hampshire, was the first "Yankee" to be elected Governor.
And a point of view from Wikipedia
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