1869 Chicago mayoral election

none January 2025 September 2023 1869 Chicago mayoral election presidential no 1867 1871 November 2, 1869Republican Ticket Election Tuesday, November 2, 1869 https://web.archive.org/web/20181209123841/https://flps.newberry.org/article/5418474_4_1190 December 9, 2018 Illinois Staats-Zeitung -- September 21, 1869 File:Rosewellmason (1).jpeg Roswell B. Mason Citizens Party 19,826 63.47% File:3x4.svg George W. Gage Republican 11,410 36.53% Mayor John B. Rice Republican Roswell B. Mason Citizens Party no In the Chicago mayoral election of 1869, Citizens Party nominee Roswell B. Mason defeated Republican nominee George W. Gage by a landslide 27-point margin. This was the last mayoral election before the Great Chicago Fire took place. Citizens Party candidate Mason was an executive in the Illinois Central Railroad. Republican Party candidate Gage was a businessman who operated the Tremont House and Sherman House hotels. The Citizens Reform ticket was a nonpartisan reform slate which aimed to challenge the power of German Republican political boss Anton C. Hesing.Schneirov Richard Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97 1998 University of Illinois Press 978-0-252-06676-4 49 https://books.google.com/books?id=p6CktVNaVKsC 17 May 2020 en Results 1869 Chicago mayoral electionRaceID=486044 https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=486044 Our Campaigns December 8, 2018 #A9A9A9 Citizens Party Roswell B. Mason 19,826 63.47 Republican Party (United States) George W. Gage 11,410 36.53 31,236 Aftermath Mason would only serve a single term as mayor. Gage would go on to serve as the president of the Chicago White Stockings baseball team (today's Chicago Cubs) and serve as Chicago's South Parks Commissioner Annual Report of the South Park Commissioners, 1873 (during which time he commissioned a park which would subsequently bear his name). References collapsed Category:Mayoral elections in Chicago Chicago Chicago Category:1860s in Chicago Category:November 1869 in the United States