1925 Pittsburgh mayoral election

none January 2025 September 2023 1925 Pittsburgh mayoral election Flag of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.svg presidential no 1921 Pittsburgh mayoral election 1921 1929 Pittsburgh mayoral election 1929 November 3, 1925 Charles H. Kline.png Charles H. Kline Republican Party (United States) 69,831 76.6% William L. Smith Independent (United States) 15,210 16.7% Carman C. Johnson Democratic Party (United States) 5,342 5.9% Mayor William A. Magee Republican Party (United States) Charles H. Kline Republican Party (United States) The 1925 Pittsburgh mayoral election was held on Tuesday, 3 November 1925. It resulted in a landslide victory for Republican candidate Charles H. Kline. Republican primary Incumbent Republican mayor William A. Magee's career took a downturn when he broke with state Senator Max G. Leslie, a party boss who had sponsored Magee's candidacy in the previous election. Leslie, determined to prevent the mayor's re-election, pushed for Judge Charles H. Kline of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas to succeed Magee. Kline attracted endorsements from other Republican leaders, including William Larimer Mellon, who along with his uncle Andrew W. Mellon was commonly (if not accurately) credited with controlling Pittsburgh politics. Faced with dwindling party support and a shortage of campaign funds, Magee withdrew from the field.Murray Lawrence L. The Mellons, Their Money, and the Mythical Machine: Organizational Politics in the Republican Twenties Pennsylvania History 42 3 July 1975 230–231 https://journals.psu.edu/phj/article/view/23864/23633 With Magee out of the running, the Republican primary was just a formality as Kline trounced William L. Smith, principal of Allegheny High School. General election In the general election, Kline trampled his token opposition. His opponents were Smith, who had re-entered the race on Non-Partisan and Prohibition tickets, and little-known Democrat Carman C. Johnson, a teacher at Westinghouse High School.Weber Michael P. Don't Call Me Boss: David L. Lawrence, Pittsburgh's Renaissance Mayor University of Pittsburgh Press 1988 31–32 0-8229-3565-1 https://books.google.com/books?id=6iLEiXAgV0UC&pg=PA31 The Republican Party also won all seats by an overwhelming margin in the coinciding city council elections.MacMahon Arthur Municipal Elections In 1925 National Municipal Review April 1926 XV 4 Pittsburgh mayoral election, 1925The Pittsburgh Press 18 November 1925 14 Plurality of 54,621 Given Judge Kline https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MEQqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EUoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7096%2C5628484 Republican Party (US) Charles H. Kline* 69,831 76.6 Non-Partisan / Prohibition William L. Smith† 15,210 16.7 Democratic Party (US) Carman C. Johnson 5,342 5.9 Socialist Party of America William J. Van Essen 638 0.7 Independent Citizens Louis G. Karzis 166 0.2 91,187 100.0 Kline received 68,469 votes on the Republican ticket and 1,362 votes on the Labor Party slate. †Smith received 10,745 votes on Non-Partisan and 4,465 votes on Prohibition ballots. References 1921 Pittsburgh mayoral election1925 1929 collapsed 1925 Category:1925 United States mayoral elections Category:1920s in Pittsburgh Category:November 1925 in the United States Category:1925 Pennsylvania elections