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Cook County
Illinois

Named for Daniel Pope Cook (1794-1827)

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    Selected officials of Cook County

    (not intended to be complete)

    Charles B. Farwell (County Clerk, 1854-62) Philip Knopf (County Clerk, 1894-1902) Orrin N. Carter (County Judge, 1894-1905) Oscar De Priest (County Commissioner, 1894-1904) Charles S. Deneen (State's Attorney, 1896-1904) Thomas E. Barrett (Sheriff, 1902) John J. Healy (State's Attorney, 1905) Peter M. Hoffman (Coroner, 1905) John W. Rainey (Circuit Court Clerk, 1912-16) Emmett Whealan (County Commissioner, 1919-31) William Meyering (Sheriff, 1930-34) Thomas J. Courtney (State's Attorney, 1932-45) John S. Clark (County Assessor, 1934-54) John Toman (Sheriff, 1934-38) Joseph L. Gill (County Treasurer) Thomas J. O'Brien (Sheriff, 1939-42) Thomas J. Bowler (Clerk of Courts) Peter B. Carey (Sheriff, 1942-43) Elmer Michael Walsh (Sheriff, 1946-50) Frank Keenan (County Assessor, 1954-58) P. J. Cullerton (County Assessor, 1958-74) Daniel P. Ward (State's Attorney, 1960-66) Andrew J. Toman (Coroner, 1960-76) Richard B. Ogilvie (Sheriff, 1962-68) Thomas C. Hynes (County Assessor, 1978-97) Richard M. Daley (State's Attorney, 1981-89) James M. Houlihan (County Assessor, 1997-)


    Politicians who were born in Cook County


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    Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872
    The Political
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    The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. It is the Internet's most comprehensive source for American political biography, listing 192,291 politicians, living and dead.

    Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — Mailing address: P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — The site is currently hosted by Hostmonster, but we remain grateful for a decade-plus with our former web host, Paul Haas, of Ypsilanti, Michigan. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 24, 2009.

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