The Political Graveyard: Cook County, Ill.

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Cook County
Illinois

Politicians who were born in Cook County

Cook County (no city given): H. C. Mussman, 1853

Arlington Heights: Charlie Kirk, 1993

Barrington: Gregory G. Garre, c.1968

Berwyn: Roy C. Pechous, 1936 — Henry Ogden Clark, 1944

Blue Island: Dick Fuester, 1876 — Clarence N. Bergstrom, 1895

Chicago:

	Chicago, year not specified: Frank J. McDermott — George Garry Noonan — Francis J. Loughran — Harold G. Ward — Robert E. Lynch — Lyle E. Douglass — Lawrence E. Dowd — Norman C. Barry — John F. Boyle — James C. Soper — Donald J. O'Brien — Elsa Sandstrom — John J. Nimrod — David J. Regner — Ken Sorensen — Louis S. Viverito — Bill Bradbury — Sheila A. Jones — Marvin A. McMickle — Christel E. Marquardt — Jack Wall — S. Michael Rummel — Ed Pawlowski
	Chicago, 1830-1839: Asa Z. Blodgett, 1832
	Chicago, 1840-1849: Horace Gray Lunt, 1847 — Joseph C. Helm, 1848
	Chicago, 1850-1859: Walter Cranston Larned, 1850 — Arthur Lloyd Thomas, 1851 — James H. Ward, 1853 — Bernard F. Weber, 1853 — Martin E. Rudolph, 1853 — William Frank Mahoney, 1856 — Charles P. Bryan, 1856 — Michael Kenna, 1857 — Joseph F. Haas, 1857 — Fred Mott, 1857 — George Aaron Gibbs, 1857 — Charles R. Crane, 1858 — Robert E. Burke, 1858 — Alexander H. Revell, 1858 — Samuel Alschuler, 1859
	Chicago, 1860-1869: Carter H. Harrison, 1860 — August W. Miller, 1861 — William Church Osborn, 1862 — George D. Anthony, 1862 — Francis King, 1863 — Thomas E. Barrett, 1863 — William H. Lawrence, 1863 — William Kent, 1864 — Jacob H. Marks, 1864 — John J. Healy, 1865 — Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor, 1865 — Fred A. Busse, 1866 — Henry McColl, 1866 — George W. Dixon, c.1866 — Howard E. Bidwell, c.1866 — Morton D. Hull, 1867 — George Albert Carpenter, 1867 — Adolph Marks, 1867 — Norman Hapgood, 1868 — George F. Harding, Jr., 1868 — Charles H. Hamill, 1868 — P. H. Moynihan, 1869 — William E. Sweet, 1869 — Thomas J. Dixon, 1869 — William Mahoney, 1869
	Chicago, 1870-1879: James R. Buckley, 1870 — Carl R. Chindblom, 1870 — Maurice Hudson Thatcher, 1870 — Homer S. Cummings, 1870 — Ralph C. Otis, 1870 — Hugo Pam, 1870 — Edward H. Mason, 1870 — Charles E. Ryberg, 1870 — Frederick A. Britten, 1871 — Ernest C. Engle, 1871 — George W. Mead, 1871 — John P. FitzGerald, 1872 — Harry Hermann, 1872 — Frank J. McDermott — E. P. Adler, 1872 — George Edmund Gorman, 1873 — Robert P. Bass, 1873 — Clarence S. Williams, 1873 — Francis E. Donoghue, 1873 — Andrew C. Metzger, 1873 — Anna Ickes, 1873 — John B. Kimball, 1873 — Brice J. Brasen, 1873 — Richard T. Crane, Jr., 1873 — Edmund J. Stack, 1874 — Spencer F. Eddy, 1874 — Albert A. Sprague, 1874 — David H. Jackson, 1874 — James B. Bowler, 1875 — Ira Nelson Morris, 1875 — Frederic R. DeYoung, 1875 — Emmett Whealan, 1875 — William B. Lloyd, 1875 — Edward J. Kelly, 1876 — John B. Tower, c.1876 — Medill McCormick, 1877 — Charles Marsh Thomson, 1877 — Clarence C. Dinehart, 1877 — Joseph A. Mendel, 1877 — A. L. Auth, 1877 — Charlotte H. McMorran, 1877 — George E. Foulkes, 1878 — Albert W. Hawkes, 1878 — Thomas J. O'Brien, 1878 — James M. Slattery, 1878 — Henry Horner, 1878 — Janet Fairbank, 1878 — Thomas P. Keane, 1878 — Herbert E. Gooch, 1878 — Samuel S. Arentz, 1879 — John J. Meyers, 1879 — Samuel Rothschild, 1879 — Paul B. Wallace, 1879 — Joseph M. Patterson, 1879 — Albert W. Brickwood, Jr., 1879
	Chicago, 1880-1889: John W. Rainey, 1880 — Robert R. McCormick, 1880 — George C. Watson, 1880 — Milton B. Kirk, 1880 — James S. Lawton, 1880 — George Garry Noonan — Emmett McGrath, 1880 — Roy Nathan Towl, 1881 — Thomas R. Flack, 1881 — Winnifred Mason Huck, 1882 — Leo Kocialkowski, 1882 — James T. Igoe, 1883 — George M. Maypole, 1883 — C. Milton Fessenden, 1883 — William J. Warfield, 1883 — Noble Brandon Judah, 1884 — Henry B. Dirks, 1884 — Adam F. Bloch, 1884 — Timothy T. Cronin, 1884 — Otto Kerner, 1884 — Daniel A. Roberts, 1884 — Charles F. Baumrucker, 1884 — Herbert C. Biar, 1884 — Joseph L. Gill, 1885 — Frank Peska, 1885 — Peter P. Kielminski, 1885 — Joseph E. Haven, 1885 — Thomas A. Doyle, 1886 — Peter B. Carey, 1886 — Philip J. Finnegan, 1886 — Michael Rosenberg, 1886 — John M. Lee, 1886 — Walter F. Dexter, 1886 — Henry Breckinridge, 1886 — Alexander J. Resa, 1887 — Martin H. Kennelly, 1887 — Pauline M. Sabin, 1887 — Ripley Wilson, 1887 — Arthur M. Kaindl, 1887 — Edgar W. Hiestand, 1888 — Raymond S. McKeough, 1888 — Alexander C. Kirk, 1888 — Edward J. Hughes, 1888 — Oscar G. Mayer, 1888 — Frank J. Migas, 1888 — Blaine J. Brickwood, 1888 — Edgar J. Keating, 1889 — Bernhard Gettelman, 1889 — James B. Leonardo, 1889 — W. M. Parker, 1889
	Chicago, 1890-1899: Francis J. Loughran — James B. McCahey, 1890 — George W. Frisby, 1890 — Harold G. Ward — James R. Quinn, 1890 — Riley A. Bender, 1890 — Clinton S. Bailey, 1890 — Patrick H. Kelly, 1890 — John F. Zelezinski, 1890 — Martin F. Smith, 1891 — Walter H. Nill, 1891 — William J. Connors, 1891 — David C. Elkington, 1891 — Eugene Lester Garey, 1891 — Charles Geiger, 1891 — Ellsworth B. Buck, 1892 — Edward A. Kelly, 1892 — Thomas J. Courtney, 1892 — Joe P. Rostenkowski, 1892 — William Meyering, 1892 — George R. Fitzmaurice, 1892 — Frank J. Huckin, Jr., 1892 — Hugh S. Fullerton, 1892 — Robert E. Lynch — Einar W. Dieserud, 1892 — Thomas S. Gordon, 1893 — Richard W. Hoffman, 1893 — Marshall Field, 1893 — Raymond E. Garvey, 1893 — Charles F. Clarke, 1893 — Carl Hinshaw, 1894 — Martin Patrick Durkin, 1894 — George H. Butler, 1894 — Joseph T. Baran, 1894 — Albert S. Coolidge, 1894 — Edward J. Lorenz, 1894 — Laurence E. Salisbury, 1894 — Walter E. Pacanowski, 1894 — James J. Adduci, 1894 — Albert Blake Dick, Jr., 1894 — Gaylord C. Whipple, 1894 — Neil J. Linehan, 1895 — Richard B. Vail, 1895 — Jacob M. Arvey, 1895 — William A. Lee, 1895 — Lyle E. Douglass — Julius Jennings Hoffman, 1895 — Emmet F. Byrne, 1896 — John C. Kluczynski, 1896 — Raymond Herbert Talbot, 1896 — India Edwards, c.1896 — Thomas A. Nicholas, c.1896 — Edwin W. Blomquist, 1896 — Thomas L. Owens, 1897 — Mabel Gross, 1897 — Katharine C. Blow, 1897 — Theodore Levin, 1897 — John C. Kuklinski, 1897 — Einar T. Anderson, 1897 — George F. Smith, 1897 — James J. Ryan, 1897 — Fred Bradley, 1898 — Peter C. Granata, 1898 — Daniel A. Serritella, 1898 — Gerhard Gade, 1898 — Lawrence Walter Hartman, 1898 — Stanley A. Halick, 1898 — Emily Taft Douglas, 1899 — William T. Murphy, 1899 — John Marshall Harlan, 1899 — Howard P. Jones, 1899 — Harry Litowich, 1899 — Frank A. Mahoney, 1899 — Lawrence E. Dowd — Clem Graver, 1899 — Louis C. Romell, 1899 — Charles K. Claunch, 1899
	Chicago, 1900-1909: Roland V. Libonati, 1900 — Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., 1900 — William E. Stevenson, 1900 — Edward J. Barrett, 1900 — Ben H. Waigand, 1900 — Roger J. Kiley, 1900 — Norman C. Barry — Joseph E. Taglia, 1900 — Allen J. Busby, 1900 — John F. Boyle — Michael A. Ruddy, 1900 — Jessica McCullough Weis, 1901 — Samuel R. Ballis, 1901 — A. L. 'Whitey' Cronin, 1901 — Richard B. Austin, 1901 — Walt Disney, 1901 — John S. Boyle, 1901 — Julius Klein, 1901 — Edmund F. Mansure, 1901 — Arthur L. May, 1901 — Charles J. Kersten, 1902 — Richard J. Daley, 1902 — Henry J. Taylor, 1902 — Thaddeus V. Adesko, 1902 — James V. Pacelli, 1902 — W. Clement Stone, 1902 — Thomas E. Kluczynski, 1903 — Rex Bell, 1903 — Arthur J. Bidwill, 1903 — Gordon L. Leitch, 1903 — Henry Pope, Jr., 1903 — James R. Boland, 1903 — George Hugo Boldt, 1903 — Elliot Donnelley, 1903 — Louis C. Sudler, 1903 — Eugene P. Dukes, 1904 — Frank T. O'Brien, 1904 — Victor H. Schiro, 1904 — Ralph Bellamy, 1904 — Raymond P. Hillinger, 1904 — James Simpson, Jr., 1905 — William J. Campbell, 1905 — Thomas E. Keane, 1905 — Joseph E. Finerty, 1905 — Andrew J. Toman, 1905 — William A. Cunnea, 1905 — Herbert H. Behrel, 1905 — Warren M. Chase, 1905 — J. J. Wimp, 1905 — Alexander J. Napoli, 1905 — Edwin Albert Robson, 1905 — R. H. Scown, 1905 — Benjamin S. Adamowski, 1906 — Roger Kent, 1906 — Elmer Gertz, 1906 — Stewart G. Honeck, 1906 — William T. Emblen, 1906 — George F. Barrett, 1907 — Frank A. Knight, 1907 — Harold E. Rainville, 1907 — John B. Geary, 1907 — Howard Elting, Jr., 1907 — Ray Middleton, 1907 — Arthur J. Goldberg, 1908 — Otto Kerner, 1908 — William J. Lynch, 1908 — Archibald J. Carey, Jr., 1908 — Timothy P. Sheehan, 1909 — Sidney R. Yates, 1909 — Elmer L. Andersen, 1909
	Chicago, 1910-1919: Maurice M. Bernbaum, 1910 — Lawrence DiPrima, 1910 — John F. Leon, 1910 — Marshall Korshak, 1910 — Harris Burgoyne, 1910 — John G. Fary, 1911 — Edward H. Levi, 1911 — John S. Ptaszkiewicz, 1911 — James C. Soper — Robert N. Sawyer, 1911 — Haydon Burns, 1912 — Stewart G. Anderson, 1912 — Robert E. Lee, 1912 — J. Herbert Burke, 1913 — John F. Wall, 1913 — Lois Goldstein Forer, c.1913 — Daniel J. Ronan, 1914 — Michael J. Howlett, 1914 — Edward E. Pringle, 1914 — Charles O. Zollar, 1914 — Alan R. Johnston, 1914 — William E. McManus, 1914 — Frank Annunzio, 1915 — Robert C. Strong, 1915 — Herbert L. Stern, Jr., 1915 — Chester A. Chesney, 1916 — Jack Miller, 1916 — William McCormick Blair, Jr., 1916 — Donald J. O'Brien — Walter J. Cummings, Jr., 1916 — Ruth Y. Velson, 1916 — Byron L. Johnson, 1917 — James C. Murray, 1917 — George M. O'Brien, 1917 — Claude G. Ross, 1917 — Marvin Robert Dee, 1917 — John Albert Lacey, 1917 — Robert Sprecher, 1917 — Howard I. Olsen, c.1917 — John R. Dellenback, 1918 — John Patrick Walsh, 1918 — Daniel P. Ward, 1918 — Charles H. Pitney, 1918 — Richard Wellington McLaren, 1918 — Betty Ford, 1918 — Bruce M. Macfarlane, 1919
	Chicago, 1920-1929: Howard W. Pollock, 1920 — James R. Olin, 1920 — John Paul Stevens, 1920 — Adolph Dubs, 1920 — Howard Thomas Markey, 1920 — Fred B. Roti, 1920 — James B. McCahey, Jr., 1920 — Kent Chandler, Jr., 1920 — Myron H. Wahls, 1921 — Frank James McGarr, 1921 — Harold Washington, 1922 — Jewel Lafontant-Mankarious, 1922 — Robert Komer, 1922 — Jeanne Hurley Simon, 1922 — Carl Olaf Bue, Jr., 1922 — Michael A. Bilandic, 1923 — Henry J. Hyde, 1924 — Cecil Heftel, 1924 — William G. Clark, 1924 — Elsa Sandstrom — Jean Ledwith King, 1924 — Martin Tuchow, 1924 — Sidney I. Lezak, 1924 — George W. Collins, 1925 — John J. Nimrod — Thomas J. McCracken, 1925 — Nicholas John Bua, 1925 — Edward J. Derwinski, 1926 — Raymond F. Clevenger, 1926 — James W. Spain, 1926 — William J. Scott, 1926 — M. Larry Lawrence, 1926 — William J. Bauer, 1926 — James E. Defebaugh, 1926 — Paul F. Elward, 1926 — John N. Erlenborn, 1927 — David J. Regner — John S. Mowat, Jr., 1927 — Dan Rostenkowski, 1928 — Slade Gorton, 1928 — Don A. Moore, 1928 — Daniel M. Pierce, 1928 — Don L. Gevirtz, 1928 — Scott M. Matheson, 1929 — Brandon Grove, 1929 — Suzanne L. Deuchler, 1929 — Charles F. Clarke, Jr., 1929
	Chicago, 1930-1939: Philip M. Crane, 1930 — Adlai E. Stevenson III, 1930 — Victor H. Palmieri, 1930 — Gordon Robert Beyer, 1930 — Mary Ann G. McMorrow, 1930 — Floyd J. Mattheeussen, 1930 — John Edward Cunningham III, 1931 — Jerris Leonard, 1931 — Thomas G. Lyons, 1931 — Ken Sorensen — Arthur Telcser, 1932 — Louis S. Viverito — Eugene G. Wanger, 1933 — Elaine Baxter, 1933 — Ronald C. Smith, 1933 — Terry J. Hatter, Jr., 1933 — Jane M. Byrne, 1934 — Blanche M. Manning, 1934 — Peter Andrew Tomel, 1934 — David E. Stahl, 1934 — James Henry Alesia, 1934 — Marvin E. Aspen, 1934 — Kenneth A. Gewertz, 1934 — Edward A. Brennan, 1934 — George Kendall Sharp, 1934 — Nancy L. Johnson, 1935 — Jack Davis, 1935 — Frank Cicero, Jr., 1935 — Frank Savickas, 1935 — Raymond G. Wardingley, 1935 — Dan Crane, 1936 — Jim McDermott, 1936 — Suzanne Jacobs, 1936 — Thomas H. Miller, 1936 — Charles Manatt, 1936 — Judy Biggert, 1936 — Paul W. Jung, 1936 — Richard Baner, 1936 — John Powers Crowley, 1936 — William O. Lipinski, 1937 — John F. Seymour, 1937 — Samuel Knox Skinner, 1938 — Darryl N. Johnson, 1938 — John W. Darrah, 1938 — William J. Janklow, 1939 — Walter S. Kozubowski, 1939 — Malcolm S. Kamin, 1939
	Chicago, 1940-1949: Theodore B. Olson, 1940 — Cornelius B. Waud, 1940 — Andrea H. Seastrand, 1941 — Kenneth S. Yalowitz, 1941 — John A. Smietanka, 1941 — William J. Laurino, 1941 — John P. Ahern, 1941 — Bill Bradbury — Kenneth B. Kramer, 1942 — Paul B. Henry, 1942 — John Ashcroft, 1942 — Richard M. Daley, 1942 — Sheila A. Jones — David T. Prosser, Jr., 1942 — F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., 1943 — David D. Orr, 1944 — Nancy C. Detert, 1944 — Michael Homel, c.1944 — Sherry Lansing, 1944 — Janice D. Schakowsky, 1944 — Joseph A. Sonneman, 1944 — Wesley K. Clark, 1944 — Robert J. Miller, 1945 — Wayne R. Andersen, 1945 — Douglas Howard Ginsburg, 1946 — Jim Ryan, 1946 — Joseph E. Kernan, 1946 — Tom O'Halleran, 1946 — Steven Schiff, 1947 — Carol Moseley=Braun, 1947 — Hillary Clinton, 1947 — Roger D. Winthrop, 1947 — Pat Quinn, 1948 — Linda K. Neuman, 1948 — William M. Daley, 1948 — Debra DeLee, 1948 — Wendy Conway, 1949 — James D. McGee, 1949
	Chicago, 1950-1959: Marvin A. McMickle — Jill Stein, 1950 — Mark D. Siljander, 1951 — Ted Pillow, 1951 — David F. Levi, 1951 — Tim Walberg, 1951 — Phillip S. Figa, 1951 — Thomas J. Campbell, 1952 — Christel E. Marquardt — Louis J. Butler, Jr., 1952 — John Hiler, 1953 — Luis V. Gutiérrez, 1953 — Thomas Michael Durkin, 1953 — Maurice J. Walker, 1954 — Ruben Castillo, 1954 — Brian Mark Cogan, 1954 — Lawrence Kestenbaum, 1955 — William Thomas Redmond, 1955 — John Morroni, 1955 — Skip Rimsza, 1955 — Gregory J. Nickels, 1955 — Karen Majewski, 1955 — Rod Blagojevich, 1956 — Deval Patrick, 1956 — Jack Wall — Bruce Rauner, 1956 — Jacky Rosen, 1957 — Robert James Conrad, Jr., 1958 — Rahm Emanuel, 1959 — Charlie Serrano, 1959 — Cynthia L. Davis, 1959 — Nan Hayworth, 1959
	Chicago, 1960-1969: Sharon Johnson Coleman, 1960 — Pamela K. Chen, 1961 — Melissa L. Bean, 1962 — Michael P. Flanagan, 1963 — Michelle Obama, 1964 — S. Michael Rummel — Daniel Lipinski, 1966 — Ed Pawlowski — Jon Stewart, 1967 — Steve Hickey, 1967
	Chicago, 1970-1979: Saqib Ali, 1975 — Alexi Giannoulias, 1976 — Ruben Gallego, 1979

Chicago Heights: Robert Paul Hanrahan, 1934 — Debbie Halvorson, 1958

Near Chicago: Festus O. Butt, 1875

Des Plaines: Peter M. Hoffman, 1863 — Edward Rowan Finnegan, 1905 — Matthew Bogusz, 1986

East Hazel Crest: George Michael Marovich, 1931

Evanston: Charles H. Bartlett, 1872 — Hugh R. Wilson, 1885 — John A. Holabird, 1886 — Walter G. Andrews, 1889 — Leonard P. Moore, 1898 — Robert R. Rose, Jr., 1915 — Robert S. Babcock, 1915 — Ernest Palmer, Jr., c.1916 — Richard F. Babcock, 1917 — John J. Louis, Jr., 1925 — James Byron Moran, 1930 — Donald Rumsfeld, 1932 — Robert S. Juckett, Sr., 1932 — John Edward Porter, 1935 — Peter V. Ueberroth, 1937 — Lynn Martin, 1939 — Jim Kolbe, 1942 — Richard S. Williamson, 1949 — Roger Williams, 1949 — Scott R. Lassar, 1950 — Jeffrey Cragg, 1961

Evergreen Park: Martin Ozinga, Jr., 1921

Forest Park: Howard R. Mohr, 1921

Glencoe: R. Douglas Stuart, 1886

Hubbard Woods: Robert D. Stuart, Jr., 1916

Hyde Park (now part of Chicago): George S. Buck, 1875

La Grange: Bertha H. Mailly, 1869 — Carl A. Robinson, 1886

Mt. Prospect: John Ratcliffe, 1965

Melrose Park: Frank L. Kaminski, 1897

Morgan Park (now part of Chicago): Orville E. Atwood, 1880

Oak Park: Leland H. Rayson, 1921 — Arthur Sidney Demarest, 1921 — Prentice Henry Marshall, 1926 — John B. Conlan, 1930 — Rhett W. Butler, 1940 — Dick Murphy, 1942 — Barbara A. Caulfield, 1947 — John C. Rayson, 1949

Orland Township: William H. Weber, 1856

Palatine: Jim Schwantz, 1970

Park Ridge: James I. Dolliver, 1894

Proviso (now Hillside): Emil A. Hinz, 1889

River Forest: Thomas J. Gill, 1906

River Grove: James C. Kirie, 1911

Riverside: Robert McClory, 1908 — Judy Baar Topinka, 1944

Wilmette: Harold Carlson, 1889

Winnetka: George A. Paddock, 1885 — Peter Rutter, 1915

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