1869 Chicago mayoral election

1869 Chicago mayoral election
← 1867 November 2, 1869[1] 1871 →
 
Nominee Roswell B. Mason George W. Gage
Party Citizens Party Republican
Popular vote 19,826 11,410
Percentage 63.47% 36.53%

Mayor before election

John B. Rice
Republican

Elected mayor

Roswell B. Mason
Citizens Party

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.[2]

  1. ^ Republican Ticket Election Tuesday, November 2, 1869 Archived December 9, 2018, at the Wayback Machine Illinois Staats-Zeitung -- September 21, 1869
  2. ^ Schneirov, Richard (1998). Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97. University of Illinois Press. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-252-06676-4. Retrieved May 17, 2020.