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) 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) 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

• Berwyn: Roy C. Pechous 1936 Henry Ogden Clark 1944
• Blue Island: Dick Fuester 1876 Clarence N. Bergstrom 1895
• Chicago:
  Arthur Lloyd Thomas 1851 Bernard F. Weber 1853 William Frank Mahoney 1856 Charles P. Bryan 1856 Ira Nelson Morris 1857 Charles R. Crane 1858 Robert E. Burke 1858 Samuel Alschuler 1859 Carter H. Harrison 1860 August W. Miller 1861 William Church Osborn 1862 George D. Anthony 1862 Francis King 1863 Thomas E. Barrett 1863 William Kent 1864 Jacob H. Marks 1864 John J. Healy 1865 Fred A. Busse 1866 George William Dixon c.1866 Morton D. Hull 1867 George Albert Carpenter 1867 Adolph Marks 1867 Norman Hapgood 1868 Charles H. Hamill 1868 P. H. Moynihan 1869 William E. Sweet 1869 Thomas J. Dixon 1869 William Mahoney 1869 James Richard Buckley 1870 Carl R. Chindblom 1870 Maurice Hudson Thatcher 1870 Homer S. Cummings 1870 Ralph C. Otis 1870 Hugo Pam 1870 Frederick A. Britten 1871 Ernest C. Engle 1871 John P. FitzGerald 1872 Harry Hermann 1872 Frank McDermott c.1872 George Edmund Gorman 1873 Robert P. Bass 1873 Clarence S. Williams 1873 Francis E. Donoghue 1873 Andrew C. Metzger 1873 Edmund J. Stack 1874 Spencer F. Eddy 1874 James B. Bowler 1875 Frederic R. DeYoung 1875 Emmett Whealan 1875 William B. Lloyd 1875 Medill McCormick 1877 Charles Marsh Thomson 1877 Clarence C. Dinehart 1877 Joseph A. Mendel 1877 A. L. Auth 1877 George E. Foulkes 1878 Albert W. Hawkes 1878 Thomas J. O'Brien 1878 Herbert E. Gooch 1878 Samuel S. Arentz 1879 Henry Horner 1879 John J. Meyers 1879 Paul B. Wallace 1879 John W. Rainey 1880 Robert R. McCormick 1880 George C. Watson 1880 Roy Nathan Towl 1881 Winnifred Sprague Mason Huck 1882 Leo Kocialkowski 1882 James T. Igoe 1883 George M. Maypole 1883 Noble Brandon Judah 1884 Adam F. Bloch 1884 Otto Kerner 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 John M. Lee 1886 Henry Breckenridge 1886 Alexander J. Resa 1887 Pauline M. Sabin 1887 Edgar W. Hiestand 1888 Raymond S. McKeough 1888 Alexander C. Kirk 1888 Edward J. Hughes 1888 Oscar Gottfried Mayer 1888 Frank J. Migas 1888 Edgar J. Keating 1889 Bernhard Gettelman 1889 James B. Leonardo 1889 Francis J. Loughran c.1890 James B. McCahey 1890 Harold G. Ward c.1890 Riley A. Bender 1890 Clinton S. Bailey 1890 Martin F. Smith 1891 Walter H. Nill 1891 William J. Connors 1891 Eugene Lester Garey 1891 Ellsworth B. Buck 1892 Edward A. Kelly 1892 William Meyering 1892 George R. Fitzmaurice 1892 Frank J. Huckin, Jr. 1892 Robert E. Lynch c.1892 Thomas S. Gordon 1893 Marshall Field 1893 Raymond E. Garvey 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 Neil J. Linehan 1895 Richard B. Vail 1895 Jacob M. Arvey 1895 Emmet F. Byrne 1896 John C. Kluczynski 1896 Raymond Herbert Talbot 1896 Julius H. Miner 1896 Thomas L. Owens 1897 Katharine C. Blow 1897 Theodore Levin 1897 John C. Kuklinski 1897 Fred Bradley 1898 Peter C. Granata 1898 Daniel A. Serritella 1898 Mabel Gross 1898 Emily Taft Douglas 1899 William T. Murphy 1899 John Marshall Harlan 1899 Howard Palfrey Jones 1899 Harry Litowich 1899 Frank A. Mahoney 1899 Lawrence E. Dowd c.1899 Clem Graver 1899 India Edwards c.1899 Louis C. Romell 1899 Charles K. Claunch 1899 Roland V. Libonati 1900 Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr. 1900 William E. Stevenson 1900 Edward J. Barrett 1900 Norman C. Barry c.1900 Joseph E. Taglia 1900 Jessica McCullough Weis 1901 Samuel R. Ballis 1901 A. L. 'Whitey' Cronin 1901 Richard B. Austin 1901 Walt Disney 1901 Edmund F. Mansure 1901 Arthur L. May 1901 Charles J. Kersten 1902 Richard J. Daley 1902 Henry Junior Taylor 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 Eugene P. Dukes 1904 Frank T. O'Brien 1904 Victor H. Schiro 1904 James Simpson, Jr. 1905 William J. Campbell 1905 Thomas E. Keane 1905 Joseph E. Finerty 1905 William A. Cunnea 1905 Benjamin S. Adamowski 1906 Roger Kent 1906 Elmer Gertz 1906 George F. Barrett 1907 Frank A. Knight 1907 John B. Geary 1907 Arthur J. Goldberg 1908 Otto Kerner 1908 William J. Lynch 1908 Timothy P. Sheehan 1909 Sidney R. Yates 1909 Elmer L. Andersen 1909 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 c.1911 Robert N. Sawyer 1911 Haydon Burns 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 Frank Annunzio 1915 Robert C. Strong 1915 Robert S. Babcock 1915 Jack Miller 1916 William McCormick Blair, Jr. 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 John R. Dellenback 1918 John Patrick Walsh 1918 Daniel P. Ward 1918 James R. Olin 1920 John Paul Stevens 1920 Adolph Dubs 1920 Fred B. Roti 1920 James B. McCahey, Jr. 1920 Myron H. Wahls 1921 Harold Washington 1922 Jewel S. Lafontant 1922 Robert Komer 1922 Jeanne Hurley Simon 1922 Carl Olaf Bue, Jr. 1922 Michael A. Bilandic 1923 Henry J. Hyde 1924 William G. Clark 1924 Elsa Sandstrom c.1924 Martin Tuchow 1924 Sidney I. Lezak 1924 George W. Collins 1925 John J. Nimrod c.1925 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 John S. Mowat, Jr. 1927 Dan Rostenkowski 1928 Slade Gorton 1928 Don A. Moore 1928 Daniel M. Pierce 1928 Don L. Gevirts 1928 Scott M. Matheson 1929 Brandon Hambright Grove, Jr. 1929 Suzanne L. Deuchler 1929 Philip M. Crane 1930 Adlai E. Stevenson III 1930 Victor H. Palmieri 1930 Gordon Robert Beyer 1930 David J. Regner c.1930 Floyd J. Mattheeussen 1930 John Edward Cunningham III 1931 Thomas G. Lyons 1931 Ken Sorensen c.1932 Arthur Telcser 1932 Louis S. Viverito c.1932 Eugene G. Wanger 1933 Elaine Baxter 1933 Ronald C. Smith 1933 Blanche M. Manning 1934 Peter Andrew Tomel 1934 David E. Stahl 1934 James Henry Alesia 1934 Marvin E. Aspen 1934 Kenneth A. Gewertz 1934 Nancy L. Johnson 1935 Jack Davis 1935 Frank Cicero, Jr. 1935 Frank Savickas 1935 Dan Crane 1936 Jim McDermott 1936 Suzanne Jacobs 1936 Thomas H. Miller 1936 Charles Manatt 1936 Judy Biggert 1936 Richard Baner 1936 William O. Lipinski 1937 John Seymour 1937 Samuel Knox Skinner 1938 William J. Janklow 1939 Walter S. Kozubowski 1939 Malcolm S. Kamin 1939 Andrea H. Seastrand 1941 John A. Smietanka 1941 William J. Laurino 1941 John P. Ahern 1941 Bill Bradbury c.1941 Kenneth B. Kramer 1942 Paul B. Henry 1942 John Ashcroft 1942 Richard M. Daley 1942 F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. 1943 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 Joseph E. Kernan 1946 Steven Schiff 1947 Carol Moseley Braun 1947 Hillary Rodham Clinton 1947 Linda K. Neuman 1948 William M. Daley 1948 Wendy Conway 1949 James D. McGee 1949 Marvin McMickle c.1950 Mark D. Siljander 1951 Ted Pillow 1951 Tim Walberg 1951 Thomas J. Campbell 1952 Christel E. Marquardt c.1952 Luis V. Gutierrez 1953 Maurice J. Walker 1954 Lawrence Kestenbaum 1955 William Thomas Redmond 1955 John Morroni 1955 Skip Rimsza 1955 Gregory J. Nickels 1955 Karen Majewski 1955 Rod R. Blagojevich 1956 Rahm Emanuel 1959 Charlie Serrano 1959 Melissa L. Bean 1962 Michael P. Flanagan 1963 Daniel Lipinski 1966 Ed Pawlowski c.1966 Jon Stewart 1967 Saqib Ali 1975
• Chicago Heights: Robert Paul Hanrahan 1934
• Near Chicago: Festus O. Butt 1875
• Des Plaines: Peter M. Hoffman 1863 Edward Rowan Finnegan 1905
• Evanston: Charles H. Bartlett 1872 Hugh R. Wilson 1885 Walter G. Andrews 1889 Leonard P. Moore 1898 Robert R. Rose, Jr. 1915 Ernest Palmer, Jr. c.1916 Richard Felt Babcock 1917 John J. Louis, Jr. 1925 Donald Rumsfeld 1932 Robert S. Juckett, Sr. 1932 John Edward Porter 1935 Peter V. Ueberroth 1937 Lynn Martin 1939 Jim Kolbe 1942
• Evergreen Park: Martin Ozinga, Jr. 1921
• Forest Park: Howard R. Mohr 1921
• Hubbard Woods: Robert D. Stuart 1916
• La Grange: Carl A. Robinson 1886 Arthur W. Sprague 1902
• Melrose Park: Frank L. Kaminski 1897
• Morgan Park (now part of Chicago): Orville E. Atwood 1880
• Oak Park: Leland H. Rayson 1921 John B. Conlan 1930 Dick Murphy 1942 John C. Rayson 1949
• Orland Township: William H. Weber 1856
• Park Ridge: James I. Dolliver 1894
• River Grove: James C. Kirie 1911
• Riverside: Robert McClory 1908
• Winnetka: George A. Paddock 1885 Peter Rutter 1915
• See also Ill. birthplaces not assigned to counties.

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872