Tom Dart
Thomas J. Dart (born May 25, 1962)[1] is an American politician and police official. He is the Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois since 2007. A Democrat, he is the chief executive of the second largest such department in the United States after Los Angeles.
Dart was a member of the Illinois Senate from 1991 to 1993. From 1993 to 2003, he was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives.
Dart was the Democratic nominee for state treasurer of Illinois but lost to incumbent Republican Judy Baar Topinka.[2]
Dart, who studied at Loyola University, lives in Mount Greenwood, Chicago.[3]
References
- ↑ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
- ↑ "Loss to Topinka - 2002 State Treasurer General Election Results - Illinois". Uselectionatlas.org. 2007-01-02. Retrieved 2010-02-04.
- ↑ "Sheriff's Biography". Cookcountysheriff.org. Archived from the original on 2010-04-14. Retrieved 2010-02-04.
Other websites
- Cook County Sheriff's Office
- Tom Dart biography Archived 2010-04-14 at the Wayback Machine