1854 Chicago mayoral election
In the 1854 Chicago mayoral election, Democrat Isaac Lawrence Milliken defeated Temperance Party nominee Amos G. Throop by a landslide 19.5% margin.
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Throop had run previously in 1852.
Incumbent mayor Charles McNeill Gray did not run for reelection.
The election was held on March 13.[1]
Campaigning
Throop had the support of the city's temperance forces. Milliken supported giving Catholics a portion of the school fund and did not support temperance.[2]
Results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Isaac Lawrence Milliken | 3,800 | 59.79 | |
Temperance Party | Amos G. Throop | 2,556 | 40.21 | |
Turnout | 6,356 |
References
- "Mayor Isaac Lawrence Milliken Biography". www.chipublib.org. Chicago Public Library. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- Immigrants in the Valley: Irish, Germans, and Americans in the Upper Mississippi Country, 1830-1860 Portada Mark Wyman SIU Press, Nov 9, 2016
- "Chicago Mayors, 1837-2007". www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- "RaceID=486033". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
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