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

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	1838–1840	Independent Democrat		[4][5]
	Ashbel Steele	1840–1842			[5]
	Samuel J. Lowe	1842–1846			[5]
	Isaac Cook	1846–1850			[5]
	William L. Church	1850–1852			[5]
	Cyrus Bradley	1852–1854			[5]
	James Andrew	1854–1855			[5]
	James Beach	1855–1856 (acting)			[5]
	John L. Wilson	1856–1858			[5]
	John Gray	1859–1860			[5]
	Anton C. Hesing	1860–1862	Republican		[5]
	David Hammond	1862–1864			[5]
	John A. Nelson	1864–1866			[5]
	John Lourie Beveridge	1866–1868	Republican		[6][7]
	Gustav Fischer	1868–1870		Absconded in 1869
	Benjamin L. Cleaves	1870–1870		Simultaneously ex officio Cook County Coroner	[5]
	Timothy Bradley	1870–1872			[8]
	Charles Kern	1872–1878	Democratic		[8]
	John Hoffman	1878–1880	Republican		[8][9]
	Orrin L. Mann	1880–1882	Republican	Elected in 1880	[10]
	Seth Hanchett	1882–1886	Republican		[11][12]
	Canute R. Matson	1886–1890	Republican		[8]
	James H. Gilbert	1890–1894
	James Pease	1894–1898	Republican		[13]
	Ernest Magerstadt	1899–1902	Republican
	Thomas E. Barrett	1902–1906	Democratic		[14][15][16]
	Christopher Strassheim	1906–1910	Republican		[16]
	Michael Zimmer	1910–1914	Democratic		[16]
	John E. Traeger	1914–1918	Democratic		[16]
	Charles W. Peters	1918–1922	Republican		[1][16]
	Peter M. Hoffman	December 1922–December 26, 1926	Republican		[17][18][19]
	Charles E. Graydon	December 29, 1926–December 1928			[19]
	John E. Traeger	December 3, 1928–December 1930	Democratic	Had previously served as sheriff	[20][21]
	William D. Meyering	1930–1934	Democratic		[17][20]
	John Toman	1934–1938			[20]
	Thomas J. O'Brien	1938–1942	Democratic		[20]
	A. L. Brodie	1942–1943			[20]
	Elmer Michael Walsh	1946-1950	Republican	Elected in 1946	[20]
	John E. Babb	1950–1954	Republican		[20][22]
	Joseph D. Lohman	1954–1958	Democrat		[20][22]
	Frank G. Sain	1958-1962	Democrat		[20][23]
	Richard B. Ogilvie	1962–1966	Republican		[20]
	Joseph I. Woods	1966–1970	Republican		[20]
	Richard Elrod	1970–1986	Democratic		[20]
	James E. O'Grady	1986–1990	Republican	Elected in 1986; lost reelection in Elected in 1990	[20]
	Michael F. Sheahan	1990–2006	Democratic	Elected in 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002	[20]
	Tom Dart	2006–present	Democratic	Elected in 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022	[20]

Recent election results

References