1929 Indianapolis mayoral election

Indianapolis mayoral election, 1929
	November 5, 1929
	November 5, 1929
Mayor before election; Lemuel Ertus Slack; Democratic	Elected Mayor ; Reginald H. Sullivan; Democratic

The Indianapolis mayoral election of 1929 took place in November 5, 1929 and saw Democrat Reginald H. Sullivan in a landslide victory.[1] Incumbent mayor, Demcorat Lemuel Ertus Slack, had been appointed mayor in 1927 after the resignation of Republican John L. Duvall after he was charged with corruption by the state.

Duvall had been elected mayor in 1925 with the support of the Ku Klux Klan, and the Marion County Republican Party had close Klan ties.[1] The City Council and school board both were composed of Klan-supported members.[1] Opposition arose by 1929 to both the Klan and to the corruption in the city government.[1]

Sullivan's victory was seen as a rebuke of the Ku Klux Klan.[1]

The Republican nominee was businessman Alfed M. Glossbrenner.[2]

Sullivan spent much of the campaign in a hospital bed after being injured in an airplane crash.[3]

Sullivan received strong support from African American and Catholic voters.[3]

Coinciding mayoral elections across the state also saw Klan-supported, generally Republican, mayors voted out and replaced by new, generally Democratic, mayors.[1] Anderson, Elkhart, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Lafayette, Muncie, and Terre Haute all replaced Klan-supported Republicans with Democratic mayors in what the New York Times hoped would be, "The dawn of a more liberal and cleaner political day in Indiana".[1]

References

Madison, James H. (1982). Indiana Through Tradition and Change: A History of the Hoosier State and Its People, 1920-1945. Indiana Historical Society. pp. 73 and 74.
"Image 24 of [Broadsides, tickets, leaflets, sample official ballots, etc. 1929]". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
Hamlett, Ryan (10 September 2013). "Lake Reginald Sullivan". Historic Indianapolis | All Things Indianapolis History. Retrieved 5 July 2020.

Preceded by 1925	Indianapolis mayoral election 1929	Succeeded by 1933

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[madison-1] Madison, James H. (1982). Indiana Through Tradition and Change: A History of the Hoosier State and Its People, 1920-1945. Indiana Historical Society. pp. 73 and 74.

[2] "Image 24 of [Broadsides, tickets, leaflets, sample official ballots, etc. 1929]". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 5 July 2020.

[HI-3] Hamlett, Ryan (10 September 2013). "Lake Reginald Sullivan". Historic Indianapolis | All Things Indianapolis History. Retrieved 5 July 2020.