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William Hale Thompson (May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931. Known as " Big Bill ", [ 1 ] he is the most recent Republican to have served as mayor of Chicago .
Thompson campaign poster. The William Hale Thompson 1927 mayoral campaign was the successful campaign of Republican William Hale Thompson for a third nonconsecutive term as mayor of Chicago in the 1927 Chicago mayoral election. The campaign saw him defeat incumbent Democrat William Emmett Dever, as well as a third-party effort by John Dill ...
Democratic incumbent William Emmett Dever was defeated by Republican candidate William Hale Thompson, who had served as mayor from 1915 to 1923. John Dill Robertson (the president West Parks Board, as well as former health commissioner and school board president), who had been previously allied with the ex-mayor, broke with Thompson to run on ...
42nd [1] Mayor of Chicago; In office April 16, 1923 – April 18, 1927: Preceded by: William Hale Thompson: Succeeded by: William Hale Thompson: Justice of Illinois' First District Appellate Court; In office 1916–1923: Justice of the Superior Court of Cook County; In office 1910–1916: Alderman of the Chicago City Council; In office 1902–1910
Former Cook County Board of Commissioners President Anton Cermak defeated incumbent mayor William Hale Thompson (who remains to date the last Republican mayor of Chicago) by a 17-point margin of victory. [1] [2] Primary elections were held by both major parties to select their nominees.
QUINCY – Granite Telecommunications owner and FoxRock Properties co-founder Robert Hale has a net worth of $5.4 billion, which makes him the world’s 553rd richest person, according to Forbes.
Here are six things to know about Michael "Bill" Haley. 1. He was born in Ohio and adopted at age 3. Nikki writes in her memoir, "His biological father was an alcoholic who had trouble with the law.
In the Chicago mayoral election of 1915, Republican William Hale Thompson defeated Democrat Robert Sweitzer. Five-term incumbent Democrat Carter Harrison Jr. was defeated in the Democratic primary by Cook County Clerk Sweitzer. In the Republican primary, Thompson defeated Harry Olson by a 1.33% margin.