What is Tom Dart?
[[File:Tom Dart 2017-06-08.png|right|thumb|200px|Dart in 2017]] '''Thomas J. Dart''' (born May 25, 1962)<ref>''U.S. Public Records Index'' Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.</ref> is an American politician and police official. He is the [[Cook County Sheriff's Office (Illinois)|Sheriff]] of [[Cook County, Illinois]] since 2007. A [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]], he is the chief executive of the second largest such department in the United States after [[Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department|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 [[Illinois Treasurer|state treasurer of Illinois]] but lost to incumbent [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Judy Baar Topinka]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=2002&off=8&elect=0&fips=17&f=0|title=Loss to Topinka - 2002 State Treasurer General Election Results - Illinois|publisher=Uselectionatlas.org|date=2007-01-02|access-date=2010-02-04}}</ref> Dart, who studied at [[Loyola University Chicago|Loyola University]], lives in [[Mount Greenwood, Chicago]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cookcountysheriff.org/sheriffs_bio/sheriff_bio.html|title=Sheriff's Biography|publisher=Cookcountysheriff.org|access-date=2010-02-04|archive-date=2010-04-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100414013624/http://www.cookcountysheriff.org/sheriffs_bio/sheriff_bio.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.cookcountysheriff.org Cook County Sheriff's Office] *[http://www.cookcountysheriff.org/sheriffs_bio/sheriff_bio.html Tom Dart biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100414013624/http://www.cookcountysheriff.org/sheriffs_bio/sheriff_bio.html |date=2010-04-14 }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dart, Tom}} [[Category:1962 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Members of the Illinois General Assembly]] [[