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

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

Office description

Terms are currently four-years in length.

Officeholders

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2020)

Sherriff		Term in office	Party	Notes	Cite
	John H. Kinzie	1831–1832		Appointed by governor John Reynolds
	Stephen R. Forbes	1832–1834		Cook County's first elected sheriff
	Silas W. Sherman	1834–1838	Democratic
	Isaac R. Gavin	1838–1840	Independent Democrat
	Ashbel Steele	1840–1842
	Samuel J. Lowe	1842–1846
	Isaac Cook	1846–1850
	William L. Church	1850–1852
	Cyrus Bradley	1852–1854
	James Andrew	1854–1855
	James Beach	1855–1856 (acting)
	John L. Wilson	1856–1858
	John Gray	1859–1860
	Anton C. Hesing	1860–1862	Republican
	David Hammond	1862–1864
	John A. Nelson	1864–1866
	John Lourie Beveridge	1866–1868	Republican
	Gustav Fischer	1868–1870		Absconded in 1869
	Benjamin L. Cleaves	1870–1870		Simultaneously ex officio Cook County Coroner
	Timothy Bradley	1870–1872
	Charles Kern	1872–1878	Democratic
	John Hoffman	1878–1880	Republican
	Orrin L. Mann	1880–1882	Republican	Elected in 1880
	Seth Hanchett	1882–1886	Republican
	Canute R. Matson	1886–1890	Republican
	James H. Gilbert	1890–1894
	James Pease	1894–1898	Republican
	Ernest Magerstadt	1899–1902	Republican
	Thomas E. Barrett	1902–1906	Democratic
	Christopher Strassheim	1906–1910	Republican
	Michael Zimmer	1910–1914	Democratic
	John E. Traeger	1914–1918	Democratic
	Charles W. Peters	1918–1922	Republican
	Peter M. Hoffman	December 1922–December 26, 1926	Republican
	Charles E. Graydon	December 29, 1926–December 1928
	John E. Traeger	December 3, 1928–December 1930	Democratic	Had previously served as sheriff
	William D. Meyering	1930–1934	Democratic
	John Toman	1934–1938
	Thomas J. O'Brien	1938–1942	Democratic
	A. L. Brodie	1942–1943
	Elmer Michael Walsh	1946-1950	Republican	Elected in 1946
	John E. Babb	1950–1954	Republican
	Joseph D. Lohman	1954–1958	Democrat
	Frank G. Sain	1958-1962	Democrat
	Richard B. Ogilvie	1962–1966	Republican
	Joseph I. Woods	1966–1970	Republican
	Richard Elrod	1970–1986	Democratic
	James E. O'Grady	1986–1990	Republican	Elected in 1986; lost reelection in 1990
	Michael F. Sheahan	1990–2006	Democratic	Elected in 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002
	Tom Dart	2006–present	Democratic	Elected in 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022

Recent election results

References

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