1838 Chicago mayoral election

The 1838 Chicago mayoral election saw Whig nominee Buckner Stith Morris defeat Democrat William Jones by an 8.5 point margin.

The election was held on March 6.^[1]

Results

**1839 Chicago mayoral election**^[2]^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	Buckner Stith Morris	377	54.25
	Democratic	William Jones	318	45.76
Turnout			695

References

^ "Mayor Buckner Stith Morris Biography". Chicago Public Library. Retrieved December 23, 2018.
^ "Chicago Mayors, 1837-2007". www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
^ "RaceID=486017". Our Campaigns. Retrieved December 23, 2018.

[1] "Mayor Buckner Stith Morris Biography". Chicago Public Library. Retrieved December 23, 2018.

[2] "Chicago Mayors, 1837-2007". www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org. Retrieved January 2, 2021.

[3] "RaceID=486017". Our Campaigns. Retrieved December 23, 2018.

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William B. Ogden (1837–38) Buckner Stith Morris (1838–39) Benjamin Wright Raymond (1839–40) Alexander Loyd (1840–41) Francis Cornwall Sherman (1841–42; 1862–65) Raymond (1842–43) Augustus Garrett (1843–44; 1845–46) Alson Sherman (1844–45) John Putnam Chapin (1846–47) James Curtiss (1847–48; 1850–51) Woodworth (1848–50) Walter S. Gurnee (1851–53) Charles McNeill Gray (1853–54) Isaac Lawrence Milliken (1854–55) Levi Boone (1855–56) Thomas Dyer (1856–57) John Wentworth (1857–58; 1860–61) John Charles Haines (1857–60) Julian Sidney Rumsey (1861–62) John Blake Rice (1865–69) Roswell B. Mason (1869–71) Joseph Medill (1871–73) Bond (1873¹) Harvey Doolittle Colvin (1873–76) Hoyne (1876²) Monroe Heath (1876–79) Carter Harrison III (1879–87; 1893) John A. Roche (1887–89) DeWitt Clinton Cregier (1889–91) Hempstead Washburne (1891–93) George Bell Swift (1893¹; 1895–97) John Patrick Hopkins (1893–95) Carter Harrison IV (1897–1905; 1911–15) Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne (1905–07) Fred A. Busse (1907–11) William Hale Thompson (1915–23; 1927–31) William Emmett Dever (1923–27) Anton Cermak (1931–33) Frank J. Corr (1933¹) Edward Joseph Kelly (1933–47) Martin H. Kennelly (1947–55) Richard J. Daley (1955–76) Michael Anthony Bilandic (1976–77¹; 1977–79) Jane Byrne (1979–83) Harold Washington (1983–87) David Orr (acting 1987¹) Eugene Sawyer (1987–89) Richard M. Daley (1989–2011) Rahm Emanuel (2011–19) Lori Lightfoot (2019–23) Brandon Johnson (2023–present)
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¹ tenure as acting officeholder. ² Election declared null and void.

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