1947 Chicago mayoral election

none January 2025 September 2023 1947 Chicago mayoral election Chicago presidential no 1943 Chicago mayoral election 1943 1951 Chicago mayoral election 1951 70.31%Mayoral race one for history books; will turnout be headline or footnote? https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/2/8/18368156/mayoral-race-one-for-history-books-will-turnout-be-headline-or-footnote Chicago Sun-Times 4 April 2020 en 8 February 2019 April 1, 1947 Martin H. Kennelly 72-599 (1).jpg Martin H. Kennelly Democratic Party (United States) 919,593 58.73% Russell Root (3x4).jpg Russell Root Republican Party (United States) 646,239 41.27% Mayor Edward J. Kelly Democratic Party (United States) Martin H. Kennelly Democratic Party (United States) The Chicago mayoral election of 1947 was held on April 1, 1947. The election saw Democrat Martin H. Kennelly being elected, defeating Republican Russell Root by a more-than 17% margin of victory. The election was preceded by primary elections in February 1947 to determine the nominees of both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. Nominations February 2019 Democratic primary After fourteen scandal-filled years in office, incumbent Democrat Edward J. Kelly was seen by many as unelectable in the year 1947.Green Paul M. Holli Melvin G. The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition, fourth edition https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=-L_shTgapuIC SIU Press 22 May 2020 147–148, 156 en 10 January 2013 9780809331994 Stewart Russ EMANUEL'S CHOICE WAS EITHER TO GET OUT OR TO GET BEAT https://russstewart.com/articles/2018/09-12-2018.html https://web.archive.org/web/20210224064651/http://russstewart.com/articles/2018/09-12-2018.html dead February 24, 2021 4 January 2019 12 September 2018 The Cook County Democratic Party (led by Jacob Arvey) desired to run a candidate with reform bona-fides, wanting to avoid a candidates with allegations of mismanagement and corruption.World War II Chicago By Paul Michael Green, Melvin G. Holli Thus, they convinced Kelly not to seek reelection.Pacyyga, Dominic, Chicago: A Biography, 2009, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 324 0-226-64431-6 This would be the last Chicago mayoral election until 2011 in which an incumbent did not seek reelection.AN EXAMINIATION OF THE 2011 CHICAGO MAYORAL ELECTION By https://paulsimoninstitute.siu.edu/common/documents/whats-in.../krebs-turner.pdfMay 2020 InternetArchiveBot yes Cichowsk Marla Rules For Running For Chicago Mayor https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rules-for-running-for-chicago-mayor Fox News 11 December 2018 September 7, 2010 It was also the first since 1923 in which this was the case. The Democratic Party opted to back Kennelly, a wealthy warehouse magnate. Kennelly had no prior experience in political office. Kennelly was the third mayoral candidate to reside in Edgewater, following Nathaniel C. Sears and William Emmett Dever, and would consequentially be the second Edgewater resident elected mayor (after Dever).Edgewater Teasers Vol. XVI No. 3 - FALL 2005 http://www.edgewaterhistory.org/ehs/articles/v16-3-5 Edgewater History 13 February 2019 Republican primary The number of voters who participated in the Republican primary was roughly half the number of voters who participated in the Democratic primary participated.https://newspaperarchive.com/marshall-evening-chronicle-feb-26-1947-p-1/ Marshall Evening Chronicle Archives, Feb 26, 1947, p. 1 26 February 1947 Republicans nominated Russell Root. Root, considered rather politically undistinguished, had been strongly backed by the statewide Republican organization of Governor Dwight H. Green. General election Root, appealing to the onslaught of the second red scare, characterized the race as a "vote for or against Communism".Fried Richard M. Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective 1991 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-976319-1 110 https://books.google.com/books?id=pVatMuvNTsoC 22 May 2020 en Root attacked the nature Kennelly's nomination, having been selected by the Democratic machine. However, these charges were perhaps rendered less than effective by the nature of Root's own nomination, having been pushed by Green's Republican organization. Kennelly attempted to run on an image of having clean record. Much of the platform he extolled could be attributed to the Progressive Era values he had grown up around. Republicans accused Kennelly of having, in his career as a warehouse magnate, profiteered off of the city in public contracts he received to store polling place materials. Kennelly rebuked these allegations, arguing that he charged the city the same price in 1947 that he had when he began providing the city this service in 1923, and that he considered it more of a civic duty than a profit-making venture. Kennelly benefited from the strong inroads that Kelly had built with African Americans. The Chicago Defender endorsed Kennelly, arguing that the city's black population saw it as important to, "continue and expand the progressive and far-reaching racial policies" of Kelly. Results The election saw a record-breaking total, with more votes being cast than in any Chicago mayoral election before it.Kennelly, Democrat, Is Elected Chicago Mayor by Wide Margin; KENNELLY ELECTED MAYOR OF CHICAGO CHICAGO MAYORALTY CHANGES HANDS https://www.nytimes.com/1947/04/02/archives/kennelly-democrat-is-elected-chicago-mayor-by-wide-margin-kennelly.html 11 December 2018 New York Times April 2, 1947 Kennelly won the greatest vote total of any mayoral candidate in Chicago history. Mayor of Chicago 1947 electionBoard of Election Commissioners For the City of Chicago Mayoral Election Results Since 1900 General Elections Only http://66.107.4.19/ Chicago Board of Election Commissioners 26 March 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20040718031857/http://66.107.4.19/ 18 July 2004 18 July 2004 dead Democratic Party (United States) Martin H. Kennelly 919,593 58.73 Republican Party (United States) Russell Root 646,239 41.27 1,565,832 References 2 collapsed Category:Mayoral elections in Chicago Chicago Category:20th century in Chicago Category:1940s in Chicago Chicago