1869 Chicago mayoral election

In the Chicago mayoral election of 1869, Citizens Party nominee Roswell B. Mason defeated Republican nominee George W. Gage by a landslide 27-point margin.

1869 Chicago mayoral election
November 2, 1869[1]
 
Nominee Roswell B. Mason George W. Gage
Party Citizens Party Republican
Popular vote 19,826 11,410
Percentage 63.47% 36.53%

Mayor before election

John B. Rice
Republican

Elected Mayor

Roswell B. Mason
Citizens Party

This was the last mayoral election before the Great Chicago Fire took place.

Citizens Party candidate Mason was an executive in the Illinois Central Railroad. Republican Party candidate Gage was a businessman who operated the Tremont House and Sherman House hotels.

The Citizens Reform ticket was a nonpartisan reform slate which aimed to challenge the power of German Republican political boss Anton C. Hesing.[2]

Results

1869 Chicago mayoral election[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Citizens Party Roswell B. Mason 19,826 63.47
Republican George W. Gage 11,410 36.53
Turnout 31,236

Aftermath

Mason would only serve a single term as mayor. Gage would go on to serve as the president of the Chicago White Stockings baseball team (today's Chicago Cubs) and serve as Chicago's South Parks Commissioner[4] (during which time he commissioned a park which would subsequently bear his name).

References

  1. Republican Ticket Election Tuesday, November 2, 1869 Archived December 9, 2018, at the Wayback Machine Illinois Staats-Zeitung -- September 21, 1869
  2. Schneirov, Richard (1998). Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97. University of Illinois Press. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-252-06676-4. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  3. "RaceID=486044". Our Campaigns. Retrieved December 8, 2018.
  4. Annual Report of the South Park Commissioners, 1873
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