1854 Chicago mayoral election

none January 2025 September 2023 Chicago mayoral election, 1854 presidential no 1853 1855 March 13, 1854 File:Isaac-milliken (1).jpg Isaac Lawrence Milliken Democratic Party (United States) 3,800 59.79% File:Amos G. Throop 1840 (a).jpg Amos G. Throop Temperance Party 2,556 40.21% Mayor Charles McNeill Gray Democratic Party (United States) Isaac Lawrence Milliken Democratic Party (United States) In the 1854 Chicago mayoral election, Democrat Isaac Lawrence Milliken defeated Temperance Party nominee Amos G. Throop by a landslide 19.5% margin. Throop had run previously in 1852. Incumbent mayor Charles McNeill Gray did not run for reelection. The election was held on March 13.Mayor Isaac Lawrence Milliken Biography https://www.chipublib.org/mayor-isaac-lawrence-milliken-biography/ www.chipublib.org Chicago Public Library 2 January 2021 Campaigning Throop had the support of the city's temperance forces. Milliken supported giving Catholics a portion of the school fund and did not support temperance.Immigrants in the Valley: Irish, Germans, and Americans in the Upper Mississippi Country, 1830-1860 Portada Mark Wyman SIU Press, Nov 9, 2016 Results 1854 Chicago mayoral electionChicago Mayors, 1837-2007 http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1443.html www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org 2 January 2021 RaceID=486033 Our Campaigns http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=486033 2019-01-04 Democratic Party (United States) Isaac Lawrence Milliken 3,800 59.79 Temperance Party Amos G. Throop 2,556 40.21 6,356 References 1854 Chicago Chicago Category:1850s in Chicago Category:March 1854