1867_Chicago_mayoral_election

1867 Chicago mayoral election

1867 Chicago mayoral election

Election

In the Chicago mayoral election of 1867, incumbent Republican John Blake Rice won reelection, defeating Democrat Francis Cornwall Sherman by a nearly twenty-point margin.

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The election was held on April 16.[1] It was ultimately a rematch of the previous election. This was Chicago's first mayoral election held after the conclusion of the American Civil War.

This was the final election before a law that would move mayoral elections from April to November.

Results

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References

  1. [1]
    "Mayor John Blake Rice Biography".
  2. [2]
    "RaceID=486043". Our Campaigns. Retrieved January 12, 2019.


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