1899 Chicago mayoral election

1899 Chicago mayoral election
← 1897 April 4, 1899 1901 →
Turnout85%
 
Nominee Carter Harrison Jr. Zina R. Carter John Peter Altgeld
Party Democratic Republican Municipal Ownership
Popular vote 148,498 107,437 47,169
Percentage 48.58% 35.15% 15.43%

Mayor before election

Carter Harrison Jr.
Democratic

Elected mayor

Carter Harrison Jr.
Democratic

In the Chicago mayoral election of 1899, Democrat Carter Harrison Jr. was reelected, winning a plurality of the vote and defeating Republican nominee Zina R. Carter, former Illinois governor John Peter Altgeld, as well as several minor candidates by a double-digit margin.

The election took place on April 4.[1][2][3][4]

Before the election, the two major parties held municipal nominating conventions to determine their nominees. At the Democratic Party's nominating convention, incumbent mayor Harrison was renominated by acclamation. At the Republican Party's nominating convention, Carter (a businessman, trustee of the Sanitary District of Chicago, and former alderman) defeated Graeme Stewart (a businessman and former president of the Chicago Board of Education).

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference race was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Mayor Carter Henry Harrison IV Biography
  3. ^ "Aurora Daily Express - Google News Archive Search".
  4. ^ Currey, Josiah Seymour (1912). Chicago: Its History and Its Builders, a Century of Marvelous Growth. S. J. Clarke publishing Company. p. 335.