Election Name: | Chicago mayoral election, 1854 |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Year: | 1853 |
Next Year: | 1855 |
Election Date: | March 13, 1854 |
Image1: | File:Isaac-milliken (1).jpg |
Candidate1: | Isaac Lawrence Milliken |
Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 3,800 |
Percentage1: | 59.79% |
Candidate2: | Amos G. Throop |
Party2: | Temperance Party |
Popular Vote2: | 2,556 |
Percentage2: | 40.21% |
Mayor | |
Before Election: | Charles McNeill Gray |
Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
After Election: | Isaac Lawrence Milliken |
After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
In the 1854 Chicago mayoral election, Democrat Isaac Lawrence Milliken defeated Temperance Party nominee Amos G. Throop by a landslide 19.5% margin.
Throop had run previously in 1852.
Incumbent mayor Charles McNeill Gray did not run for reelection.
The election was held on March 13.[1]
Throop had the support of the city's temperance forces. Milliken supported giving Catholics a portion of the school fund and did not support temperance.[2]