Editing Monmouth, Illinois (section)

==Notable people==
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*[[John Clayton Allen]] – U.S. Congressman from Illinois from 1925 to 1933
*[[George A. Beecher]] – bishop of Western Nebraska<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sidney-telegraph-bishop-beecher-is-d/158584647/ |title=Bishop beecher is Dead; Served Here |date=1951-06-19 |newspaper=The Sidney Telegraph |page=15 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=2024-11-07}}{{Open access}}</ref>
*[[Ken Blackman]] – Former NFL football player for the Cincinnati Bengals & Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Grew up in Monmouth.
* [[Clarence F. Buck]] – Illinois state senator, farmer, postmaster, and newspaper editor
*[[Montgomery Case]] – bridge builder
* [[Ellen Irene Diggs]] – American anthropologist and author of African-American history. Born and raised in Monmouth
* [[Charles Dryden]] – early 20th Century sportswriter
*[[Jug Earp]] – NFL football player from 1921 to 1932
* [[Wyatt Earp]] – legendary lawman of the American West; born in Monmouth
* [[Loie Fuller]] – pioneer of modern dance
* [[Gladys Gale]] – singer and actress
* [[Ralph Greenleaf]] – nineteen-time world pocket billiards (Straight Pool) champion (1919–1938) in [[BCA Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]]
* [[Regis Groff]] – second African American elected to the [[Colorado Senate]], lived in Monmouth as a child<ref name=dpl>Tammi E. Haddad and Merrie Jo Schroeder, [http://eadsrv.denverlibrary.org/sdx/pl/doc-tdm.xsp?id=ARL34_d0e33&fmt=text&base=fa Regis Groff Papers: Finding Aid], Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, Denver Public Library, 2006.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://capitolwords.org/date/2001/07/25/E1434_tribute-to-state-senator-regis-groff/ |title=Tribute to State Senator Regis Groff |website=Capitol Words |access-date=2014-10-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141008012532/http://capitolwords.org/date/2001/07/25/E1434_tribute-to-state-senator-regis-groff/ |archive-date=2014-10-08 }}</ref>
* [[J. P. Machado]] – former NFL football player for the New York Jets
*[[Mike Miller (basketball, born 1964)|Mike Miller]] – basketball coach
* [[Loren E. Murphy]] – Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court and mayor of Monmouth
* [[Eleazer A. Paine]] – Civil War general, lived in Monmouth
* [[Ronald Reagan]] – 40th [[President of the United States]], lived in Monmouth as a child<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/3637552-418/reagan-university-president-park-building.html|title=Is Ronald Reagan's Chicago boyhood home doomed?|work=Chicago Sun-Times|access-date=June 12, 2012|last=Janssen|first=Kim|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111202005705/http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/3637552-418/reagan-university-president-park-building.html|archive-date=December 2, 2011}}</ref>
*[[James Montgomery Rice]] – Illinois Congressman, helped establish United States National Guard
* [[James H. Rupp]] – Illinois state senator, Mayor of Monmouth, and businessman<ref>'Illinois Blue Book 1985–1986,' Biographical Sketch of James H. Rupp, p. 114.</ref>
* [[Richard Speck]] – mass murderer, briefly lived in Monmouth<ref>{{cite book |first1=Daniel L.|last1=Breo|first2=William J. |last2=Martin|first3=Bill|last3=Kunkle |title=The Crime of the Century: Richard Speck and the Murders That Shocked a Nation |publisher=[[Bantam Books]]|year=1993|isbn=978-0-553-56025-1}}</ref>
* [[Lawrence H. Stice]] – Illinois state representative and businessman, lived in Monmouth<ref>'Illinois Blue Book 1935–1936,' Biographical Sketch of Lawrence H. Stice, pp. 196–197.</ref>
* [[John Twomey (musician)|John Twomey]] – manualist
* [[J. Mayo Williams]] – pro football player, music producer in [[Blues Hall of Fame]]; grew up in Monmouth