Cook County Treasurer

Cook County Treasurer
Incumbent Maria Pappas since December 1998
Term length	4 years
Inaugural holder	Archibald Clybourn
Formation	1831

The Cook County treasurer is the treasurer of county government in Cook County, Illinois.

The Cook County treasurer looks over the second-largest system of property tax collection and distribution in the United States. The office was created in 1831, and since 1835 has been an elected role. Its elected terms were two years in length at first.

As of 2022, the salary paid to the elected Cook County treasurer is $115,500.

List of treasurers

Treasurer		Term in office	Party	Notes	Cite
	Archibald Clybourn	March 1831–March 1834
	Isaac Harmon	March 1834–March 1835
	Henry Kimball	March 1835–March 1836		The first elected Treasurer
	Samuel J. Trowbridge	March 1836–June 1837
	Edward E. Hunter	June 1837–May 1838
	John Calhoun	May 1838–June 1839
	Nathan H. Bolles	June 1839–October 1839
	Isaac Cook	October 1839–August 1843
	Anton Getzler	August 1843–August 1847
	William L. Church	August 1847–November 1849
	James Long	November 1849–November 1851
	Horatio N. Heald	1851–1855
	Michael Gleason	1855–1857
	Augustus H. Boyden	1857–1861
	Jacob Rehm	1861–1865
	Jesse M. Allen	1865–1867
	Thomas O. Osborn	November 1867–1869
	H.S. Rexford	1869–1871
	Julian Sidney Rumsey	1871–1873	Republican
	Henry B. Miller	1873–1875
	Louis C. Huck	1875–1877
	S.H. McCrea	1877–1879
	William T. Johnson	1879–1882
	William C. Seipp	1882–1886	Democratic
	John R. Thompson	____–1910	Republican
	W. L. O'Connell	1910–____	Democratic
	H. R. Gibbons	December 1918–April 19, 1921	Democratic	Elected in 1918; died in office
	Patrick J. Carr	April 20, 1921–____		Appointed by Cook County Board of Commissioners on April 20, 1921
	George F. Harding Jr.	1926–30
	Joseph McDonough	1930–1934		Elected in 1930; died in office
	Robert Sweitzer	December 4, 1934–1935	Democratic	Elected in 1934, removed from office by vote of the Cook County Board of Commissioners in 1935
	Joseph L. Gill	1935–???	Democratic	Appointed in 1935
	Louis E. Nelson		Republican
	Herbert C. Paschen	1954–1958	Democratic
	Francis S. Lorenz	1958–September 1961	Democratic	Elected in 1958; resigned to accept appointment as Illinois Treasurer
	Bernard J. Korzen
	Edward J. Rosewell	December 1974–December 1998	Democratic	Elected in 1974, 1988, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994
	Maria Pappas	December 1998–present	Democratic	Elected in 1998, 2002, 2006, 2019, 2014, 2018, 2022

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