1899 Chicago mayoral election
In the Chicago mayoral election of 1899, Democrat Carter Harrison Jr. was reelected, winning a plurality of the vote and defeating Republican nominee Zina R. Carter, former Illinois governor John Peter Altgeld, as well as several minor candidates by a double-digit margin.
Image: Zina B. Carter (a)
Image: John P. Altgeld 1896
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