1862 Chicago mayoral election

1862 Chicago mayoral election
← 1861 April 15, 1862 1863 →
 
Nominee Francis Cornwall Sherman Charles N. Holden
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 7,437 6,254
Percentage 54.32% 45.68%

Mayor before election

Julian Sidney Rumsey
Republican

Elected mayor

Francis Cornwall Sherman
Democratic

In the Chicago mayoral election of 1862, Democrat Francis Cornwall Sherman won a second non-consecutive term, defeating Republican Party nominee Charles N. Holden.

Sherman had previously served as mayor two decades earlier, after winning the 1841 election. He had also been an unsuccessful candidate in the 1856 mayoral election.


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