Post Service As Lt. Governor of Illinois
For a time, Hartigan left public life for the business world. He returned in 1982, winning election as Illinois attorney general. In 1986, he briefly sought the Democratic nomination for governor but withdrew when Adlai Stevenson III entered the race. Hartigan then ran for reelection as attorney general, and won with the highest number of votes of any statewide office that year. In 1990 Hartigan won the Democratic nomination for Illinois Governor but was defeated in the General Election by Illinois Secretary of State Jim Edgar.
Since then Hartigan has served Chairman of the World Trade Center Illinois and from 2002–2004 as a justice on the Illinois Appellate Court. Hartigan retired voluntarily from the bench in 2004. He was a member of Hillary Clinton's Illinois Steering Committee and February 5 Rapid Responders.
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