Thomas Dyer
Thomas Dyer | |
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18th Mayor of Chicago | |
In office 1856–1857 | |
Preceded by | Levi Boone |
Succeeded by | John Wentworth |
Personal details | |
Born | Canton, Connecticut | January 13, 1805
Died | June 6, 1862 Connecticut, United States | (aged 57)
Political party | Democratic |
Residence | Chicago, Illinois |
Thomas Dyer (January 13, 1805 – June 6, 1862; buried in Connecticut) served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1856–1857) for the Democratic Party. He also served as the founding president of the Chicago Board of Trade.
He was a former meat-packing partner of former mayor John Putnam Chapin, who was one of Chicago's first meat packers. Chapin built a slaughterhouse on the South Branch of the Chicago River in 1844.[1]
Running as a "pro-Nebraska" Democrat (aligned with Stephen A. Douglas, who publicly backed his candidacy), Dyer won the contentious 1856 Chicago mayoral election, defeating former mayor Francis Cornwall Sherman (who ran as an anti-Nebraska candidate).[2][3]
References
- ^ Group, Genealogy Trails History. "The History of Chicago's Mayors - presented by Illinois Genealogy Trails". www.genealogytrails.com. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ Goodspeed, Weston A. (Feb 6, 2017). The History of Cook County, Illinois. Jazzybee Verlag.
- ^ Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872 by Robin L. Einhorn
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