1861 Chicago mayoral election

1861 Chicago mayoral election
← 1860 April 16, 1861 1862 →
 
Nominee Julian Sidney Rumsey Thomas Barbour Bryan
Party Republican People's
Popular vote 8,274 6,601
Percentage 55.62% 44.38%

Mayor before election

John Wentworth
Democratic

Elected mayor

Julian Sidney Rumsey
Republican

In the Chicago mayoral election of 1861, Republican Julian Sidney Rumsey defeated People's nominee Thomas Barbour Bryan by a ten-point margin.

The election took place on April 16, 1861.[1]

The election was the first of four Chicago mayoral elections which took place during the course of the American Civil War.

  1. ^ "Mayor Julian Sidney Rumsey Biography". www.chipublib.org. Chicago Public Library. Retrieved January 3, 2021.