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Speeches of Hon. Carter H. Harrison, of Illinois, in the House of Representatives, on Democratic Music, May 23, 1876, and on Centennial Celebration of ... January 19, 1876 (Classic Reprint)
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Carter Henry Harrison Jr. was an American politician. He served as the 37th and 40th mayor of Chicago.
Background
Carter Henry Harrison Jr. was born on April 23, 1860 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He was the son of Carter Henry Harrison, also a five-term mayor of Chicago, and Sophorisba Preston Harrison, and also descendant of Robert Carter I, Benjamin Harrison IV, William Randolph, and Isham Randolph of Dungeness.
His parents were both from Kentucky. Discontented with life in the South, in 1858 they moved to Chicago, settling in, as Harrison described it in his autobiography, "the hustling, bustling, daring settlement close to the foot of Lake Michigan. "
Education
From 1873 to 1876 Harrison lived and studied in Altenburg, capital of the German duchy of Saxe-Altenburg. Here he acquired the knowledge of the German language and of German customs that served him well during his political career.
In 1876, upon the death of his mother, Harrison returned to Chicago, where he attended St. Ignatius College (today Loyola University). He graduated in 1881 and received a law degree from Yale University in 1883.
Career
From 1883 to 1891 Harrison practiced law and sold real estate in Chicago. From 1891 to 1894 Harrison, with his younger brother, William Preston Harrison, served as editor and publisher of the Chicago Times, using its columns to support his father and other Democrats as well as liberal political causes.
When his father was assassinated by a crazed office-seeker in 1893, the younger Harrison made plans to go into politics. Through the chaotic political years from 1894 to 1897, Harrison revitalized his father's organization and developed his own political contacts. In March of 1897 a coterie of Democratic ward leaders and politicians nominated him for mayor. The campaign tactics followed by Harrison, except for one issue, set the pattern for the remainder of his contests. He astutely followed his father's formula of emphasizing the need for "the fullest measure of personal liberty consistent with the maintenance of public order. " This approach, plus his ability to speak German and his attendance at a Catholic university and marriage to a Catholic wife, attracted strong support for Harrison among Chicago's German, Irish, and Bohemian voters.
He was elected mayor in 1897 over two opponents, winning overwhelming backing in the wards where his father had been strong and restoring the Democratic party to power in the city after severe losses in 1895 and 1896. After his first success in 1898, independent voters and such Chicago ethnic groups as the Irish, Germans, Poles, and Bohemians combined to elect Harrison mayor for three more successive terms. In 1911, after having been out of office for six years, Harrison was again elected mayor, defeating Charles E. Merriam, an independent Republican and a professor of political science at the University of Chicago.
In 1933, in return for his support at the Democratic National Convention, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him Collector of Internal Revenue for the First Illinois District, a post he held until 1945. He was also chairman of the Public Works Administration in Illinois.
Harrison's accomplishments as mayor and his political career to 1915 are detailed in his excellent autobiography, Stormy Years, published in 1935. A sequel, Growing Up with Chicago, was published in 1944; Harrison's experiences with the Red Cross during World War I are covered in With the American Red Cross in France, 1918-1919, published in 1947.
He died in Chicago on December 25, 1953, and is buried in Graceland Cemetery.
An important perennial in Chicago politics was the traction issue. Even though Harrison had ignored this question during his first campaign, he soon grasped its importance and made the issue his own. In 1898 he led the fight to block franchise extensions desired by the traction magnate Charles Tyson Yerkes. During his next three campaigns, in 1899, 1901, and 1903, Harrison posed as the defender of the city streets against the depredations of Yerkes and his political allies led by the Republican boss "Billy" Lorimer. Even though many Chicago reformers had originally opposed Harrison because of his stands on civil service ("snivel service") and his defense of "personal liberty" in regard to the liquor question, they came to support him because of his traction stand.
During his term, Harrison's last, the Chicago Vice Commission and other reform groups pressed the mayor to act on the question of vice regulation. Throughout his terms as mayor, Harrison had allowed a segregated vice district ("the Levee"), and had moved only against prostitutes who strayed beyond the district. Pressure grew from those who opposed this policy, and in 1913 the red-light district was closed. In his last year as mayor, Harrison appointed the morals commission recommended by the Chicago Vice Commission. Undoubtedly, these actions by Harrison alienated many of his former supporters, and in the 1915 Democratic primary Harrison was defeated by Robert M. Sweitzer, the candidate of Harrison's Democratic factional opponents led by Roger Sullivan.
Membership
Harrison was a member of many organizations including the Freemasons, Knights Templar, the Society of the Cincinnati, Sons of the Revolution, Sons of the American Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion and the Military Order of the World Wars.
Interests
In addition to his political activities and his writings, Harrison was an art collector and president of the Chicago Commission for the Encouragement of Local Art from 1918 to 1945.
Connections
In 1887 Harrison married Edith Ogden of New Orleans; they had two children.