Mayor of Chicago

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Mayor of Chicago

US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

2-May-1837 6-Mar-1838 William Butler Ogden (b. 1805, d. 1877, Democrat)

6-Mar-1838 7-Mar-1839 Buckner Stith Morris (b. 1800, d. 1879, Democrat)

7-Mar-1839 9-Mar-1840 Benjamin Wright Raymond (1st time, b. 1801, d. 1883, Whig)

9-Mar-1840 4-Mar-1841 Alexander Loyd (b. 1805, d. 1871, Democrat)

4-Mar-1841 7-Mar-1842 Francis Cornwall Sherman (1st time, (b. 1805, d. 1870, Democrat)

7-Mar-1842 7-Mar-1843 Benjamin Wright Raymond (2nd time, Whig)

7-Mar-1843 2-Apr-1844 Augustus Garrett (1st time, b. 1801, d. 1848, Democrat)

2-Apr-1844 10-Mar-1845 Alson Sherman (b. 1811, d. 1903, Democrat)

10-Mar-1845 3-Mar-1846 Augustus Garrett (2nd time, Democrat)

3-Mar-1846 9-Mar-1847 John Putnam Chapin (b. 1810, d. 1864, Whig)

9-Mar-1847 14-Mar-1848 James Curtiss (1st time, b. 1803, d. 1859, Democrat)

14-Mar-1848 12-Mar-1850 James Hutchinson Woodworth (b. 1804, d. 1869, Democrat)

12-Mar-1850 11-Mar-1851 James Curtiss (2nd time, Democrat)

11-Mar-1851 7-Mar-1853 Walter S. Gurnee (b. 1813, d. 1903, Democrat)

7-Mar-1853 15-Mar-1854 Charles McNeill Gray (b. 1807, d. 1885, Democrat)

15-Mar-1854 13-Mar-1855 Isaac Lawrence Milliken (b. 1815, d. 1885, Democrat)

13-Mar-1855 11-Mar-1856 Levi Day Boone (b. 1808, d. 1882, Know-Nothing)

11-Mar-1856 10-Mar-1857 Thomas Dyer (b. 1805, d. 1862, Democrat)

10-Mar-1857 2-Mar-1858 John Wentworth (1st time, b. 1815, d. 1888, Republican)

2-Mar-1858 22-Mar-1860 John Charles Haines (b. 1818, d. 1896, Republican)

22-Mar-1860 6-May-1861 John Wentworth (2nd time, Republican)

6-Mar-1861 5-May-1862 Julian Sidney Rumsey (b. 1823, d. 1886, Republican)

5-May-1862 3-May-1865 Francis Cornwall Sherman (2nd time, Democrat)

3-May-1865 6-Dec-1869 John Blake Rice (b. 1809, d. 1874, Republican)

6-Dec-1869 4-Dec-1871 Roswell B. Mason (b. 1805, d. 1892, Uni)

4-Dec-1871 18-Aug-1873 Joseph Medill (b. 1823, d. 1899, Republican)

18-Aug-1873 1-Dec-1873 Lester Legrant Bond (acting, b. 1829, d. 1903, CP)

1-Dec-1873 24-Jul-1876 Harvey Doolittle Colvin (b. 1815, d. 1892, PP)

24-Jul-1876 28-Apr-1879 Monroe Heath (b. 1827, d. 1894, Republican)

28-Apr-1879 18-Apr-1887 Carter Henry Harrison, Sr. (1st time, b. 1825, d. 1893, Democrat)

18-Apr-1887 15-Apr-1889 John A. Roche (b. 1844, d. 1904, Republican)

15-Apr-1889 27-Apr-1891 DeWitt Clinton Cregier (b. 1829, d. 1898, Democrat)

27-Apr-1891 17-Apr-1893 Hempstead Washburne (b. 1852, d. 1918, Republican)

17-Apr-1893 28-Oct-1893 Carter Henry Harrison, Sr. (2nd time, Democrat)

6-Nov-1893 27-Dec-1893 George Bell Swift (1st time, b. 1845, d. 1912, Republican)

27-Dec-1893 8-Apr-1895 John Patrick Hopkins (b. 1858, d. 1918, Democrat)

8-Apr-1895 15-Apr-1897 George Bell Swift (2nd time, Republican)

15-Apr-1897 10-Apr-1905 Carter Henry Harrison, Jr. (1st time, b. 1860, d. 1953, Democrat)

10-Apr-1905 15-Apr-1907 Edward F. Dunne (b. 1853, d. 1937, Democrat)

15-Apr-1907 17-Apr-1911 Fred A. Busse (b. 1866, d. 1914, Republican)

17-Apr-1911 26-Apr-1915 Carter Henry Harrison, Jr. (2nd time, Democrat)

26-Apr-1915 16-Apr-1923 William Hale Thompson (1st time, b. 1869, d. 1944, Republican)

16-Apr-1923 18-Apr-1927 William Emmett Dever (b. 1862, d. 1929, Democrat)

18-Apr-1927 9-Apr-1931 William Hale Thompson (2nd time, Republican)

9-Apr-1931 6-Mar-1933 Anton J. Cermak (b. 1873, d. 1933, Democrat)

15-Mar-1933 17-Apr-1933 Frank J. Corr (acting, b. 1877, d. 1934, Democrat)

17-Apr-1933 15-Apr-1947 Edward J. Kelly (b. 1876, d. 1950, Democrat)

15-Apr-1947 20-Apr-1955 Martin H. Kennelly (b. 1887, d. 1961, Democrat)

20-Apr-1955 20-Dec-1976 Richard J. Daley (b. 1902, d. 1976, Democrat)

28-Dec-1976 16-Apr-1979 Michael A. Bilandic (b. 1923, d. 2002, Democrat)

16-Apr-1979 29-Apr-1983 Jane Byrne (b. 1934, Democrat)

29-Apr-1983 25-Nov-1987 Harold Washington (b. 1922, d. 1987, Democrat)

25-Nov-1987 2-Dec-1987 David D. Orr (interim, b. 1944, Democrat)

2-Dec-1987 24-Apr-1989 Eugene Sawyer (acting, b. 1934, Democrat)

24-Apr-1989 16-May-2011 Richard M. Daley (b. 1942, Democrat)

16-May-2011 -- Rahm Emanuel (b. 1959, Democrat)

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