US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

Mayor of Chicago, IL.

Location:
Chicago, IL

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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