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In the Chicago mayoral election of 1869, Citizens Party nominee Roswell B. Mason defeated Republican nominee George W. Gage by a landslide 27-point margin.
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This was the last mayoral election before the Great Chicago Fire took place.
Citizens Party candidate Mason was an executive in the Illinois Central Railroad. Republican Party candidate Gage was a businessman who operated the Tremont House and Sherman House hotels.
The Citizens Reform ticket was a nonpartisan reform slate which aimed to challenge the power of German Republican political boss Anton C. Hesing.[2]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Citizens Party | Roswell B. Mason | 19,826 | 63.47 | |
Republican | George W. Gage | 11,410 | 36.53 | |
Turnout | 31,236 |
Mason would only serve a single term as mayor. Gage would go on to serve as the president of the Chicago White Stockings baseball team (today's Chicago Cubs) and serve as Chicago's South Parks Commissioner[4] (during which time he commissioned a park which would subsequently bear his name).
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