1871 Chicago mayoral election

none January 2025 September 2023 1871 Chicago mayoral election presidential no November 7, 1871 no 1869 1873 File:Joseph Medill.jpg Joseph Medill Union-Fireproof Republican E81B23 16,125 72.92% File:Charles C.P. Holden (cropped).jpg Charles C. P. Holden E81B23 People's Ticket Republican 5,988 27.08% Mayor Roswell B. Mason Citizens Party Joseph Medill Republican In the Chicago mayoral election of 1871, Joseph Medill defeated Charles C. P. Holden by a landslide 46-point margin. Holden was president of the Common Council,Rescue and Relief https://www.greatchicagofire.org/rescue-and-relief/ https://web.archive.org/web/20111011124759/http://greatchicagofire.org/rescue-and-relief dead October 11, 2011 The Great Chicago Fire & The Web of Memory 17 May 2020 en and constructed the Landmark Holden Block in 1872. The election took place on November 7, a month after Chicago suffered the calamity of the Great Chicago Fire.https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/great-chicago-fire Chicago Fire of 1871 HISTORY December 9, 2018 The administration of the election was challenging because the majority of Chicago's voting records had been incinerated by the Great Chicago Fire, meaning that there were few resources to prevent individuals from voting more than once. Nominations The election was greatly shaped by the Great Chicago Fire. Incumbent mayor Roswell B. Mason did not run for reelection. Both nominees (in different manners) were formed by different portions of the local Republican Party and Democratic Party (with the "Union–Fireproof" ticket first being formed by the county central committees of each party, while the "People's Ticket" was formed afterwards at rump conventions of members of each of party who did not fall-in-line behind the central committees' joint ticket. Medill ran on the "Union-Fireproof" ticket.Chicago Mayors, 1837-2007 http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1443.html www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org 17 May 2020 The Union-Fireproof ticket had been formed by a group of Chicago businessmen and civic leaders led by Carter Harrison IIIThe Mayors: the Chicago political tradition by Paul Michael Green Southern Illinois University Press, Dec 1, 1995 It was a joint Democratic and Republican ticket, with different offices selected by the central committees of the county's Republican and Democratic committees.The Union Ticket https://www.newspapers.com/image/349799773 Newspapers.com subscription Chicago Tribune 11 February 2025 en October 28, 1871 Despite their drafting of Medill to be their mayoral nominee, he initially refused the nomination. Medill was preoccupied with the task of running his Chicago Tribune newspaper business, particularly after its headquarters building had been lost in the fire. However, after several days of being pressured to accept the nomination, he agreed to run on the condition that the Illinois State Legislature would enact a new city charter for Chicago which gave more formal power to the mayor. In his speech accepting the nomination, he noted that he would likely resign as mayor if the legislature failed to pass such a charter. The ticket was a liberal reform one.Jentz John B. Schneirov Richard Chicago in the Age of Capital: Class, Politics, and Democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction https://books.google.com/books?id=cWt0hISMGrkC University of Illinois Press 17 May 2020 19 en 15 April 2012 After the "Union–Fireproof" ticket was jointly by each major party's central committees, so-called "sorehead" members of both parties (who were non-supportive of the ticket that was formed) still convened the party's nominating conventions out of which they together jointly selected nominees for the so-called "People's Ticket" that was fielded to run in opposition to the Union–Fireproof ticket in city and county elections.Local Politics https://www.newspapers.com/image/465795217 Newspapers.com subscription Chicago Tribune 5 February 2025 en October 31, 1871 Holden had been supported for the ticket's nomination by the local Democratic Party, which at the time was very weakly organized. The party's main base of support came from the city's immigrant community. Holden was the alderman from the city's Tenth Ward and had served as president of the City Council during Mason's mayoralty.Charles C. P. Holden dies https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30702177/charles-c-p-holden-dies/ Chicago Tribune 24 October 2020 7 9 February 1905 Campaigning The campaigning period lasted only roughly two weeks. In his campaign, Medill promised to enact strengthened building regulations and fire codes. Medill also promised to rebuild the city, implement blue laws, and address the city's crime problems.Lindberg Richard C. The Gambler King of Clark Street: Michael C. McDonald and the Rise of Chicago's Democratic Machine 2009 SIU Press 978-0-8093-8654-3 36 https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=IUgbMFn6nCYC 19 May 2020 en Results Medill won a landslide victory. The "Union-Fireprooof" ticket also saw its nominees for City Treasurer and City Collector elected as well. It also performed strongly in the Common Council election. Medill was the city's first foreign-born mayor. Only one subsequent mayor has been foreign born, Anton Cermak. 1871 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 Union-Fireproof Joseph Medill 16,125 72.92 People's Charles C. P. Holden 5,988 27.08 22,113 100 References collapsed Category:Mayoral elections in Chicago Chicago Chicago Category:1870s in Chicago