SHERIFF DAVID CLARKE, JR.

About

David Alexander Clarke Jr. is an American former law enforcement official who served as Sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin from 2002 to 2017. In 2002, Clarke was appointed to the position by Republican Governor Scott McCallum and later elected that same year to his first four-year term. He was reelected in November 2006, 2010 and 2014. Although he ran as a Democrat in a heavily Democratic county, many of Clarke’s political views align with those of conservative Republicans.