1853 Chicago mayoral election
In the 1853 Chicago mayoral election, Charles McNeill Gray defeated Josiah L. James in a landslide, winning by a landslide 54 point margin.
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Incumbent mayor Walter S. Gurnee did not run for reelection.
The election was held on March 14.[1]
Josiah L. James was a businessman in the lumber industry.[2][3][4]
Results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Isaac Lawrence Milliken | 3,270 | 77.10 | |
Josiah L. James | 971 | 22.90 | ||
Turnout | 4,241 |
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References
- https://www.chipublib.org/mayor-charles-mcneill-gray-biography/
- Theodore Andreas, Alfred (1886). History of Chicago: From the fire of 1871 until 1885. p. 373. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- Hotchkiss, George Woodward (1898). History of the Lumber and Forest Industry of the Northwest. G.W. Hotchkiss & Company. p. 691. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- Industrial Chicago: The commercial interests. Goodspeed Publishing Company. 1894. p. 141. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- "RaceID=486032". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
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