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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.
Republican William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson, who had previously served as mayor of Chicago for two terms from 1915 to 1923, took advantage of the crime situation under his Democratic Party successor William Emmett Dever (attributed to Dever's strong enforcement of Prohibition causing increased competition among remaining bootleggers), and ran for a third nonconsecutive term, promising to end ...
The Pineapple Primary took place in 1928, during the administration of the notoriously corrupt Chicago Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, a Republican.Thompson had served two corruption-marred terms as mayor in 1915 and 1919.
Thompson would lose to Democrat Anton Cermak in the 1931 Chicago mayoral election [142] as his public approval fell victim to continuing crime and the Great Depression. [143] Historians generally consider Thompson one of the most unethical mayors in American history, in large part due to his alliance with Capone. [144]
According to the History Channel, the name was first used to describe an 1869 financial crisis, in which corruption and stock fraud caused the U.S. gold market to collapse entirely.
DENVER — Sunday marks the 46th anniversary of the Big Thompson Canyon flood, which claimed the lives of 143 people and earned the unfortunate title of the deadliest flash flood in Colorado history.
Thompson defeated Sweitzer by greater than an 11% margin. [20] In terms of the number of votes, Thompson's margin of victory was greater than any prior Chicago municipal election. [9] [21] The number of votes Thompson received was more than any other candidate for mayor of Chicago had received, up to that time. [6]
Kristy Harrell Huskey, Ernest E Mackins, Andy Patrick, and Bill Thompson, are running for school board at large in Anderson County School District 5.