1899 Chicago mayoral election
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In the Chicago mayoral election of 1899, Democrat Carter Harrison IV was reelected, winning a plurality of the vote and defeating Republican nominee Zina R. Carter, former Illinois governor John Peter Altgeld, as well as several minor candidates by a double-digit margin.
The election took place on April 4.
Before the election, the two major parties held municipal nominating conventions to determine their nominees. At the Democratic Party's nominating convention, incumbent mayor Harrison was renominated by acclamation. At the Republican Party's nominating convention, Carter (a businessman, trustee of the Sanitary District of Chicago, and former alderman) defeated Graeme Stewart (a businessman and former president of the Chicago Board of Education).