Cook County Sheriff

The Cook County Sheriff is the sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, heading the Cook County Sheriff's Office.

Cook County Sheriff
Incumbent Tom Dart since December 2006
Term length	4 years
Inaugural holder	John H. Kinzie
Formation	1831

Office description

Terms are currently four-years in length.

Officeholders

Sherriff		Term in office	Party	Notes	Cite
	John H. Kinzie	1831–1832		Appointed by governor John Reynolds	[1][2]
	Stephen R. Forbes	1832–1834		Cook County's first elected sheriff	[2][3]
	Silas W. Sherman	1834–1838	Democratic		[4]
	Isaac R. Gavin	1838–????	Independent Democrat		[4]
	Cyrus Bradley	1852–????
	Anton C. Hesing	1860–1862	Republican
	John Lourie Beveridge	1866–1870	Republican		[5][6]
	Timothy Bradley	????–????			[7]
	Charles Kern	1872–1878	Democratic		[7]
	John Hoffman	1878–????	Democratic		[7][8]
	Orrin L. Mann	1880–1882
	Seth Hanchett	????–1886
	Canute R. Matson	1886–????	Republican		[7]
	Thomas E. Barrett	1902–1906	Democratic		[9][10][11]
	Chris Strassheim	1906–1910	Republican		[11]
	Michael Zimmer	1910–1914	Democratic		[11]
	John E. Traeger	1914–1918	Democratic		[11]
	Charles W. Peters	1918–1922	Republican		[1][11]
	Peter Hoffman	1922–1926	Republican	Resigned	[12][13]
	Paddy Carr				[12]
	Charles E. Graydon				[12]
	John E. Traeger	1928–1930	Democratic	Had previously served as sherriff	[14]
	William D. Mayering	1930–1934	Democratic		[12][14]
	John Toman	1934–1938			[14]
	Thomas J. O'Brien	1938–1942	Democratic		[14]
	A. L. Brodie	1942–1943			[14]
	Elmer Michael Walsh	1946-1950	Republican	Elected in 1946	[14]
	John E. Babb	1950–1954	Republican		[14][15]
	Joseph D. Lohman	1954–1958	Democrat		[14][15]
	Frank G. Sain	1958-1962	Democrat		[14][16]
	Richard B. Ogilvie	1962–1966	Republican		[14]
	Joseph I. Woods	1966–1970	Republican		[14]
	Richard Elrod	1970–1986	Democratic		[14]
	James E. O'Grady	1986–1990	Republican	Elected in 1986; lost reelection in Elected in 1990	[14]
	Michael F. Sheahan	1990–2006	Democratic	Elected in 1990, 1994, 1998, and 2002	[14]
	Tom Dart	2006–present	Democratic	Elected in 2006, 2010, 2014, and 2018	[14]

Recent election results

References

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