1897 Chicago mayoral election
In the Chicago mayoral election of 1897, Democratic nominee Carter Harrison Jr. was elected,
winning a majority of the vote and defeating independent Republican John Maynard Harlan, Republican nominee Nathaniel C. Sears, independent Democrat Washington Hesing, as well as several minor candidates. Harrison carried a 26.7 point lead over second-place finisher Harlan, a margin greater than Harlan's vote share itself.
Image: J. Maynard Harlan LCCN2014711640 (2)
Image: Nathaniel C. Sears 1904 Lithograph (a)
Carter Henry Harrison IV was an American newspaper publisher and Democratic politician who served a total of five terms as mayor of Chicago but failed in his attempt to become his party's presidential nominee in 1904. Descended from aristocratic Virginia families and the son of five-term Chicago mayor Carter Harrison Sr., this Carter Harrison (IV) became the first native Chicagoan elected its mayor.
Harrison in 1911
Carter and Edith Ogden on a sidewalk (likely near North Rush Street and East Grand Avenue, 1913)
Harrison's grave (front row, third from right) at Graceland Cemetery