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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 ...
Republican William Hale Thompson, known as "Big Bill", [8] had been mayor for two terms from 1915 to 1923 and took advantage of the situation to run for a third term, promising to end the enforcement of Prohibition. [9]
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.
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] This forced his opponents to declare soon after. [3]
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.
Kristy Harrell Huskey, 72, Ernest E Mackins, 53, Andy Patrick, 50, and Bill Thompson, 38, are running for school board at large in Anderson County School District 5. Here's what the candidates had ...
Thompson ultimately withdrew from the race and backed Republican nominee William H. Thompson. [6] William Hale Thompson, in turn would later endorse Charles M. Thomson's subsequent successful campaign for the Circuit Court of Cook County later that year. [16]