Thomas Dyer | |
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18th Mayor of Chicago | |
In office March 11, 1856 [1] – March 10, 1857 [2] | |
Preceded by | Levi Boone |
Succeeded by | John Wentworth |
Personal details | |
Born | Canton, Connecticut, U.S. | January 13, 1805
Died | June 6, 1862 Middletown, Connecticut, U.S. | (aged 57)
Resting place | Graceland Cemetery |
Political party | Democratic |
Residence(s) | Chicago, Illinois |
Signature | |
Thomas Dyer (January 13, 1805 – June 6, 1862) served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois ( 1856–1857) for the Democratic Party. He also served as the founding president of the Chicago Board of Trade.
Thomas Dyer was born in Canton, Connecticut on January 13, 1805. [3]
He was a meat-packing partner of former mayor John Putnam Chapin, who was one of Chicago's first meat packers. Chapin built a slaughterhouse on the South Branch of the Chicago River in 1844. [4]
Running as a "pro- Nebraska" Democrat (aligned with Stephen A. Douglas, who publicly backed his candidacy), Dyer won the contentious 1856 Chicago mayoral election, defeating former mayor Francis Cornwall Sherman (who ran as an anti-Nebraska candidate). [5] [6]
He died in Middletown, Connecticut on June 6, 1862, and was buried at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. [3]
Thomas Dyer | |
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18th Mayor of Chicago | |
In office March 11, 1856 [1] – March 10, 1857 [2] | |
Preceded by | Levi Boone |
Succeeded by | John Wentworth |
Personal details | |
Born | Canton, Connecticut, U.S. | January 13, 1805
Died | June 6, 1862 Middletown, Connecticut, U.S. | (aged 57)
Resting place | Graceland Cemetery |
Political party | Democratic |
Residence(s) | Chicago, Illinois |
Signature | |
Thomas Dyer (January 13, 1805 – June 6, 1862) served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois ( 1856–1857) for the Democratic Party. He also served as the founding president of the Chicago Board of Trade.
Thomas Dyer was born in Canton, Connecticut on January 13, 1805. [3]
He was a meat-packing partner of former mayor John Putnam Chapin, who was one of Chicago's first meat packers. Chapin built a slaughterhouse on the South Branch of the Chicago River in 1844. [4]
Running as a "pro- Nebraska" Democrat (aligned with Stephen A. Douglas, who publicly backed his candidacy), Dyer won the contentious 1856 Chicago mayoral election, defeating former mayor Francis Cornwall Sherman (who ran as an anti-Nebraska candidate). [5] [6]
He died in Middletown, Connecticut on June 6, 1862, and was buried at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. [3]