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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.
William Hale Thompson 1927 mayoral campaign; 1931 Chicago mayoral election; 1936 Illinois gubernatorial election; 1939 Chicago mayoral election; A. Administrative ...
William Hale Thompson (#41) was the last Republican mayor of Chicago. Jane Byrne (#50) was the first female mayor. Harold Washington (#51) was the first African American mayor. Richard M. Daley (#54) was the longest-serving mayor (22 years). Lori Lightfoot (#56) was the first African American female and the first openly gay female mayor of Chicago.
Disappointed by his performance in the 1918 Republican U.S. Senate primary, and eager to revive his political capital by winning reelection, incumbent mayor William H. Thompson announced his campaign relatively early, doing so in the autumn of 1918. [3]
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 ...
Incumbent mayor William Hale Thompson warded off challenges from Municipal Court of Chicago Judge John Homer Lyle and 43rd Ward alderman Arthur F. Albert. John Homer Lyle was characterized by Time magazine as a "publicity-crazed Municipal Judge."