The honorable Jesse White
Jesse White is Illinois' 37th Secretary of State, first elected to office in 1998 and won a landslide victory in 2002, winning all 102 counties, again in 2006 and 2010. On November 4, 2014, White was re-elected to a record-breaking fifth term, another landslide victory by a 2-to-1 margin, earning over 2.3 million votes statewide – more than 230,000 votes than any other statewide constitutional candidate. The longest serving Secretary of State, White’s leadership has improved customer service through technology, wait times in facilities are shorter than ever before. Illinois is now a national leader in road safety, White strengthened DUI laws, reformed the CDL program and overhauled teen driving guidelines - drunk driving deaths down nearly 50 percent, teen driving deaths reduced by 51 percent. The Illinois Secretary of State’s office is the largest and most diverse office of its kind in the nation, providing more direct services to the people of Illinois than any other public agency.
