1883 Chicago mayoral election

none January 2025 September 2023 1883 Chicago mayoral election presidential no 1881 1885 April 3, 1883 Carter Harrison, Sr. - Brady-Handy (3x4a).jpg Carter Harrison III Democratic Party (United States) 41,226 57.11% Eugene Cary (Illinois, Tennessee, and Wisconsin politician) portrait photograph (3x4).jpg Eugene Cary Republican Party (United States) 30,963 42.89% Mayor Carter Harrison III Democratic Party (United States) Carter Harrison III Democratic Party (United States) The Chicago mayoral election of 1883 was held on Tuesday April 3, saw incumbent Carter Harrison III defeat Republican Eugene Cary by a double-digit margin.https://www.chipublib.org/mayor-carter-henry-harrison-iii-biography/ Mayor Carter Henry Harrison III Biographyhttps://archive.org/details/chicagohistory03curr 335 Chicago: Its History and Its Builders, a Century of Marvelous Growth S. J. Clarke publishing Company Currey Josiah Seymour 1912 By winning the 1883 election, Harrison became the second mayor in Chicago history to be elected to a third term (after only Francis Cornwall Sherman), and the first to be elected to a third consecutive term. By the day of the election, Harrison was already the second-longest serving mayor in the city's history, and was only roughly a month shy of surpassing Monroe Heath as the longest serving mayor. Harrison's 15% margin of victory was the greatest in all of his campaigns for mayor.Carter Harrison I: Policial Leader (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1928) pg. 288 Harrison's opponent, Eugene Cary, was a past member of the Chicago Common Council. He had also previously been county judge and city attorney in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and had also served as a member of the Tennessee Senate.A brief sketch of the nominee for mayor https://www.newspapers.com/image/349571661 Newspapers.com Chicago Tribune 29 November 2021 en subscription March 25, 1883 Campaign A key issue of the election was the "high licenses" for liquor sales in the city.Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97 Front Cover Richard Schneirov University of Illinois Press, 1998 (page 166-67) Cary favored the high license.Mr. Cary Reluctant - He favors High License https://www.newspapers.com/image/349571213 Newspapers.com Chicago Tribune 29 November 2021 en subscription March 24, 1883 During the campaign, many reformers, newspapers, and business interests coalesced their support behind a Citizen's Ticket that supported Republican nominee Eugene Cary for mayor.Grafters and Goo Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago by James L. Merriner Results 1883 Chicago mayoral electionThe Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book for 1912 1911 Chicago Daily News, Incorporated 464 https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=ERgfAQAAMAAJ 12 May 2020 en Democratic Party (United States) Carter H. Harrison III (incumbent) 41,226 57.11 Republican Party (United States) Eugene Cary 30,963 42.89 72,189 64% of the city's German population voted for Harrison. Multiple publications indicate a widespread belief existed that Cary had received a majority of votes lawfully cast, but votes from a ballot box in at least one precinct favoring Cary were not included in the count certified by election officials.Cary, Eugene (1835-1904) · Jane Addams Digital Edition https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/93 Digital.JaneAddams.Ramapo.edu March 22, 2026Raum Green B. (Green Berry) History of Illinois Republicanism, embracing a history of the Republican party in the state to the present time ... with biographies of its founders and supporters ... also a chronological statement of important political events since 1774 1900 Chicago, Rollins Pub. Co. 388–390 https://archive.org/details/historyofillinoi00raum/historyofillinoi00raum?view=theater#page/n403/mode/1up March 22, 2026 References collapsed collapsed Category:Mayoral elections in Chicago Chicago Chicago Category:1880s in Chicago Chicago mayoral election Category:Carter Harrison III