1883 Chicago mayoral election

1883 Chicago mayoral election
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Nominee Carter Harrison Sr. Eugene Cary
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 41,226 30,963
Percentage 57.11% 42.89%

Mayor before election

Carter Harrison Sr.
Democratic

Elected mayor

Carter Harrison Sr.
Democratic

The Chicago mayoral election of 1883 was held on Tuesday April 3, saw incumbent Carter Harrison Sr. defeat Republican Eugene Cary by a double-digit margin.[1][2]

By winning the 1883 election, Harrison became the second mayor in Chicago history to be elected to a third term (after only Francis Cornwall Sherman), and the first to be elected to a third consecutive term.

By the day of the election, Harrison was already the second-longest serving mayor in the city's history, and was only roughly a month shy of surpassing Monroe Heath as the longest serving mayor.

Harrison's 15% margin of victory was the greatest in all of his campaigns for mayor.[3]

Harrison's opponent, Eugene Cary, was a member of the Chicago Common Council that had previously been county judge and city attorney in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and had also served as a member of the Tennessee Senate.[4]

  1. ^ "Mayor Carter Henry Harrison III Biography".
  2. ^ Currey, Josiah Seymour (1912). Chicago: Its History and Its Builders, a Century of Marvelous Growth. S. J. Clarke publishing Company. p. 335.
  3. ^ Carter Harrison I: Policial Leader (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1928) pg. 288
  4. ^ "A brief sketch of the nominee for mayor". Newspapers.com. Chicago Tribune. March 25, 1883. Retrieved November 29, 2021.