1853 Chicago mayoral election

none January 2025 September 2023 1853 Chicago mayoral election presidential no 1852 1854 March 14, 1853 File:Charlesgray (a).jpeg Charles McNeill Gray Democratic Party (United States) 3,270 77.10% File:3x4.svg Josiah L. James 971 22.90% Mayor Walter S. Gurnee Democratic Party (United States) Charles McNeill Gray Democratic Party (United States) In the 1853 Chicago mayoral election, Charles McNeill Gray defeated Josiah L. James in a landslide, winning by a 54-point margin. Incumbent mayor Walter S. Gurnee did not run for reelection. The election was held on March 14.Mayor Charles McNeill Gray Biography https://www.chipublib.org/mayor-charles-mcneill-gray-biography/ www.chipublib.org Chicago Public Library 2 January 2021 Josiah L. James was a businessman in the lumber industry.Theodore Andreas Alfred History of Chicago: From the fire of 1871 until 1885 https://books.google.com/books?id=CqI4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA373 3 373 15 March 2019 1886 1003763 Hotchkiss George Woodward History of the Lumber and Forest Industry of the Northwest 1898 G.W. Hotchkiss & Company https://books.google.com/books?id=U5c4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA691 691 15 March 2019Industrial Chicago: The commercial interests https://books.google.com/books?id=HqoyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA141 Goodspeed Publishing Company 141 15 March 2019 1894 Results Gray was elected with 77.10% of the vote, at the time the second greatest vote share a mayoral candidate had received in Chicago (behind the 80.02% that James H. Woodworth received in 1849. No subsequent mayor would be elected with a larger percent of the vote until Richard J. Daley won 77.67% of the vote in 1975. 1853 Chicago mayoral electionChicago Mayors, 1837-2007 http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1443.html www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org 2 January 2021 RaceID=486032 Our Campaigns https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=486032 2019-01-04 Democratic Party (United States) Charles McNeill Gray 3,270 77.10 Josiah L. James 971 22.90 4,241 References collapsed collapsed 1853 Chicago Chicago Category:1850s in Chicago