1854 Chicago mayoral election

Chicago mayoral election, 1854
← 1853 March 13, 1854 1855 →
 
Candidate Isaac Lawrence Milliken Amos G. Throop
Party Democratic Temperance Party
Popular vote 3,800 2,556
Percentage 59.79% 40.21%

Mayor before election

Charles McNeill Gray
Democratic

Elected mayor

Isaac Lawrence Milliken
Democratic

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.[1]

  1. ^ "Mayor Isaac Lawrence Milliken Biography". www.chipublib.org. Chicago Public Library. Retrieved January 2, 2021.