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.

Chicago mayoral election, 1854
March 13, 1854
 
Candidate Isaac Lawrence Milliken Amos G. Throop
Party Democratic Temperance Party
Popular vote 3,800 2,556
Percentage 59.79% 40.21%

Mayor before election

Charles McNeill Gray
Democratic

Elected Mayor

Isaac Lawrence Milliken
Democratic

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

1854 Chicago mayoral election[3][4]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Isaac Lawrence Milliken 3,800 59.79
Temperance Party Amos G. Throop 2,556 40.21
Turnout 6,356

References

  1. "Mayor Isaac Lawrence Milliken Biography". www.chipublib.org. Chicago Public Library. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  2. Immigrants in the Valley: Irish, Germans, and Americans in the Upper Mississippi Country, 1830-1860 Portada Mark Wyman SIU Press, Nov 9, 2016
  3. "Chicago Mayors, 1837-2007". www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  4. "RaceID=486033". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
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