1911 Chicago mayoral election
In the 1911 Chicago mayoral election, Democrat Carter Harrison Jr. was elected to his fifth non-consecutive term as mayor, tying the then-record set by his father Carter Harrison Sr. for the most Chicago mayoral election victories. Harrison defeated Republican nominee Charles E. Merriam and Socialist nominee William E. Rodriguez.
Image: Carter Henry Harrison cph.3c 23214 (3)
Image: Portrait of Charles Edward Merriam (1)
Image: Rodriguez william e (1)
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