Anton Cermak
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Anton Joseph Cermak was an American politician who served as the 44th Mayor of Chicago from 1931 until he was fatally wounded in 1933 by Giuseppe Zangara, who was trying to assassinate President-elect
Portrait by Harris & Ewing c. 1931–1933
Antonín Čermák birth record 1873
Monument to Anton Cermak in his birth town of Kladno.
Anton Cermak's tomb at Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago.
William Hale Thompson
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William Hale Thompson Jr. was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931. Known as "Big Bill", he is the most recent Republican to have served
Anton Cermak
…Wright, the superintendent of parks and aviation for the city of Chicago, aided Cermak in stepping into office. When Cermak challenged the incumbent, William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson, in the 1931 mayor's race, Thompson, who represented Chicago's existing Irish-dominated power structure, responded with an ethnic slur–filled ditty…
Thompson, photographed between 1911 and 1917
Illustrations of Thompson (center) and other members of the 1896 Chicago Athletic Association football team
Thompson circa 1900
Thompson during his 1915 mayoral campaign