1854 Chicago mayoral election

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]

Campaigning

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]

Results

**1854 Chicago mayoral election**^[3]^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Isaac Lawrence Milliken	3,800	59.79
	Temperance Party	Amos G. Throop	2,556	40.21
Turnout			6,356

References

^ "Mayor Isaac Lawrence Milliken Biography". www.chipublib.org. Chicago Public Library. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
^ Immigrants in the Valley: Irish, Germans, and Americans in the Upper Mississippi Country, 1830-1860 Portada Mark Wyman SIU Press, Nov 9, 2016
^ "Chicago Mayors, 1837-2007". www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
^ "RaceID=486033". Our Campaigns. Retrieved January 4, 2019.

[1] "Mayor Isaac Lawrence Milliken Biography". www.chipublib.org. Chicago Public Library. Retrieved January 2, 2021.

[2] Immigrants in the Valley: Irish, Germans, and Americans in the Upper Mississippi Country, 1830-1860 Portada Mark Wyman SIU Press, Nov 9, 2016

[3] "Chicago Mayors, 1837-2007". www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org. Retrieved January 2, 2021.

[4] "RaceID=486033". Our Campaigns. Retrieved January 4, 2019.

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