3rd ward, Chicago

3rd Ward - Chicago
Ward
Ward 3
Country	United States
State	Illinois
County	Cook
City	Chicago
Established	1837
Communities	list
Government
• Type	Ward
• Body	Chicago City Council
• Alderperson	Pat Dowell (Democratic Party)
Website

The 3rd Ward is one of the 50 aldermanic wards with representation in the City Council of Chicago, Illinois.

History

By the 1940s, the ward's demographics had become heavily African–American. ^[1]

Past alders

The current alderperson for the 3rd ward is Pat Dowell.

Before 1923

Before 1923, wards were represented by two aldermen.

Aldermen							# Council	Aldermen
Alderman			Term in office	Party	Notes	Cite		Alderman			Term in office	Party	Notes	Cite
		John D. Canton	1837–1839			[2]	1st	—
							2nd
		Ira Miltimore	1839–1842			[2]	3rd			William H. Stow	1839–1840			[2] [3]
							4th			John Gage	1840–1841			[2]
							5th			William H. Stow	1841–1842			[2]
		Hamilton Barnes	1842–1843			[2]	6th			Alson S. Sherman	1842–1843		Later elected alderman again in 1849 in 5th	[2]
		Azel Peck	1843–1844			[2]	7th			Charles Taylor	1843–1844			[2]
		George Davis	1844			[2]	8th			Ira Miltimore	1844–1845	Liberty		[2] [4] [5]
		Hamilton Barnes	1844–1845			[2] [6]
		Francis Edwards	1845–1846			[2]	9th			Francis H. Taylor	1845–1846			[2]
		James Curtiss	1846–1847	Democratic	Previously served in 2nd ward	[2]	10th			Michael Kehoe	1846–1847			[2]
		J. Brinkerhoff	1847–1849			[2]	11th			Benjamin Wright Raymond	1847–1848			[2]
							12th			William Jones	1848–1850			[2]
		W.H. Adams	1849–1851			[2]	13th
							14th			S.J. Sherwood	1850–1852			[2]
		Oscar D. Wetherell	1851–1853	Republican		[2] [7]	15th
							16th			O.J. Rose	1852–1854			[2]
		J.H. Gray	1853–1855			[2]	17th
							18th			William L. Church	1854–1856			[2]
		Lorenzo Fletcher	1855–1857			[2]	19th
							20th			Calvin DeWolf	1856–1858		Later elected alderman again in 1866 in 2nd ward	[2]
		Hiram Joy	1857–1859			[2]	21st
							22nd			Levi J. North	1858–1860			[2]
		Fernando Jones	1859–1861			[2]	23rd
							24th			Hiram Joy	1860–1862			[2]
		A.D. Titsworth	1861–1863		Redistricted to 2nd ward in 1863	[2]	25th
							26th			James Hahn	1862–1863		Redistricted to 1st in 1863	[2]
		James H. Roberts	1863–1865			[2]	27th			Stephen Barrett	1863–1868		Died in office	[2] [8] [6]
							28th
		Charles G. Wicker	1865–1869		Later elected alderman again in 1872 in 13th ward	[2] [8]	29th
							30th
							31st
							32nd
										James Hahn	1868–1870		Previously served in 1st and 3rd wards	[2] [8]
							33rd
		Joseph A. Montgomery	1869–1871	Democratic		[2] [9]	34th
							35th			David Coey	1870–1876			[2] [6]
		John W. McGenniss	1871–1873			[2]	36th
							37th
		William Fitzgerald	1873–1876			[2] [6]	38th
							39th
		William Aldrich	1876–1877	Republican		[2]	40th			John L. Thompson	1876–1878			[2]
		Eugene Cary	1877–1879	Republican		[2]	41st
							42nd			O.B. Phelps	1878–1880	Republican		[2] [10]
		John M. Clark	1879–1881	Republican		[2] [6] [10]	43rd
							44th			Daniel L. Shorey	1880–1886	Republican		[2] [10]
		O.B. Phelps	1881–1883	Republican		[2] [10]	45th
							46th
		Frank Follansbee	1883–1885	Republican		[10]	47th
							48th
		Charles W. Drew	1885–1887	Republican		[2] [7]	49th
							50th			David H. Gile	1886–1888	Republican		[2] [7]
		John H. Hamline	1887–1888	Republican	Redistricted to 2nd ward in 1888	[2]	51st
—							52nd			Anson Gorton	1888–1892			[2]
		Laban B. Dixon	1889–1893			[2]	53rd
							54th
							55th
							56th			Edward Marrenner	1892–1896	Republican		[2] [11]
		Eli E. Smith	1893–1895			[2]	57th
							58th
		Noble Brandon Judah Sr.	1895–1897			[2]	59th
							60th			Henry S. Fitch	1896–1900			[2]
		Charles Alling	1897–1901		Redistricted to 2nd ward in 1901	[2]	61st
							62nd
							63rd
							64th			Thomas J. Dixon	1900–1901		Redistricted to 2nd ward in 1901	[2]
		Milton J. Foreman	1901–1911	Republican	Redistricted from 4th ward	[2] [12]	65th			William S. Jackson	1901–1904		Redistricted from 4th ward	[2]
							66th
							67th
							68th			William J. Pringle	1904–1912			[2]
							69th
							70th
							71st
							72nd
							73rd
							74th
		Albert R. Tearney	1911–1912			[2]	75th
							76th			Simon D. Mayer	1912–1914			[2]
		Thomas D. Nash	1913–1915	Democratic		[2] [13]	77th
							78th			Jacob Lindheimer	1914–1915			[2]
		Edward J. Werner	1915–1917	Republican		[2] [13]	79th			Nathaniel R. Stern	1915–1916	Republican		[2] [13]
							80th			Ulysses S. Schwartz	1916–1923	Democratic	Continued as alderman after 1923, but redistricted to 4th ward	[2] [14]
		George F. Iliff	1917–1919	Democratic		[2] [14]	81st
							82nd
		John H. Passmore	1919–1921			[2]	83rd
							84th
		John H. Johntry	1921–1923			[2]	85th
							86th

Since 1923

See also: List of Chicago alderpersons since 1923

Since 1923, wards have been represented by a single alderman. Elections have also been nonpartisan, though officeholders often still publicly affiliate with parties.

Alderperson		Term in office	Party		Notes	Cite
	Robert R. Jackson	April 16, 1923 – April 12, 1939		Republican	Had been serving then-2nd ward since 1918	[2] [15]
	Benjaim A. Grant	April 12, 1939 – April 9, 1943		Democratic	Lost re-election	[2] [16]
	Oscar Stanton De Priest	April 9, 1943 – 1947		Republican	Had previously served then-2nd ward from 1915 to 1917	[2] [16]
	Archibald Carey Jr.	1947 – 1955		Republican		[2] [17]
	Ralph Metcalfe	1955 – December 1970		Democratic	Resigned in order to take office as a U.S. congressman	[2]
	Tyrone T. Kenner	February 23, 1971 – February 11, 1985
	Dorothy Tillman	February 11, 1985 – April 27, 2007		Democratic
	Pat Dowell	April 27, 2007 – Present		Democratic

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