In the Chicago mayoral election of 1899, Democrat Carter Harrison IV was reelected, winning a plurality of the vote and defeating Republican nominee Zina R. Carter, former Illinois governor John Peter
Mayor Carter H. Harrison Chicago 1898 Harper's Weekly Woodcut 3x 4
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John P. Altgeld 1896
John Maynard Harlan
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John Maynard Harlan was an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Chicago City Council. Harlan, multiple times, ran for the mayoralty of Chicago.
1899 Chicago mayoral election
…Officeholders John Maynard Harlan, former Chicago alderman and 1897 candidate for mayor J. N. C. Shumway, state senator…
1916 photograph of Harlan
Portrait of Harlan