The President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners is the chief executive of county government in Cook County, Illinois.[1] They are the head of the Cook County Board of Commissioners.
President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners | |
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Term length | 4 years |
Inaugural holder | Charles C. P. Holden |
Formation | 1876 |
President[2][3][note 1] | Term start | Term end | Terms | Years | ||
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Henry B. Miller[3] | 1872 | 1873 | ||||
S. Ashton[3] | 1873 | 1874 | ||||
William R. Burdick[3] | 1874 | 1875 | ||||
A. B. Johnson[3] | 1875 | 1876 | ||||
Charles C. P. Holden[3] | 1876 | 1877 | ||||
Henry Senne[3] | December 1877 | December 1879 | ||||
John Wesley Stewart[3] | December 1879 | December 1880 | Republican | |||
D. B. Purington[3] | 1880 | 1881 | ||||
D. W. Clark[3] | 1881 | 1882 | ||||
Adam Ochs[3] | 1882 | 1883 | Democratic | |||
Joseph Donnersberger | 1883 | 1884 | Democratic | |||
Henry Senne | 1884 | 1885 | ||||
George C. Klehm | 1885 | 1887 | Republican | |||
J. Frank Aldrich | 1887 | 1887 | Republican | |||
Henry C. Senne | 1887 | 1889 | Republican[4] | |||
George Edmanson | 1889 | 1890 | ||||
Robert J. Smith | 1890 | 1891 | ||||
John M. Green | 1891 | 1892 | ||||
George Edmanson | 1892 | 1893 | ||||
George Struckman | 1893 | 1894 | ||||
Daniel D. Healy | 1894 | 1898 | ||||
James C. Irwin | 1898 | 1900 | ||||
John J. Hanberg | 1900 | 1902 | ||||
Henry G. Foreman | 1902 | 1904 | Republican[5] | |||
Edward J. Brundage | 1904 | 1907 | Republican[6] | |||
William Busse | 1907 | 1910 | Republican[7] | |||
Peter Bartzen | 1910 | 1912 | Democratic[8] | |||
Alexander A. McCormick | 1912 | 1914 | Progressive[9] | |||
Peter Reinberg | 1914 | 1921 | Democratic[9] | |||
Daniel Ryan Sr. | 1921 | 1922 | Democratic | |||
Anton Cermak | 1922 | 1931 | Democratic | |||
Emmett Whealan | 1931 | 1934 | Democratic[10] | |||
Clayton F. Smith | 1934 | 1946 | Democratic[11] | |||
William N. Erickson | 1946 | 1954 | Republican[12] | |||
Dan Ryan Jr. | 1954 | 1961 | Democratic | |||
John J. Duffy | 1961 | 1962 | Democratic[13] | |||
Seymour Simon | 1962 | 1966 | 1 | 4 | Democratic[14] | |
Richard B. Ogilvie | 1966 | January 1969 | Republican | |||
George Dunne | January 1969 | December 1990 | Democratic | |||
Richard Phelan | December 1990 | December 1994 | 1 | 4 | Democratic | |
John Stroger | December 5, 1994 | August 1, 2006 | Democratic | |||
Bobbie L. Steele | August 1, 2006 | December 4, 2006 | Democratic | |||
Todd H. Stroger | December 4, 2006 | December 6, 2010 | 1 | 4 | Democratic | |
Toni Preckwinkle | December 6, 2010 | 4* | 17* | Democratic |