Richard Buell Ogilvie (February 22 1923 – May 10 1988) was the 35th governor of Illinois and served from 1969 to 1973. A wounded combat veteran of World War II he became known as the mafia-fighting sheriff of Cook County Illinois in the 1960s before becoming governor.
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