Robert Charles Winthrop was an American lawyer,philanthropist,and Whig Party politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States House and Senate from 1840 to 1851. He served as the 18th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and was a political ally and colleague of Daniel Webster. After a rapid rise in Massachusetts and national politics and one term as speaker,Winthrop succeeded Webster in the Senate. His re-election campaign resulted in a long,sharply contested defeat by Charles Sumner. He ran for Governor of Massachusetts in 1851 but lost due to the state's majority requirement,marking the end of his political career and signaling the decline of the Massachusetts Whig Party.
The mayor of Philadelphia is the chief executive of the government of Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,as stipulated by the Charter of the City of Philadelphia. The current mayor of Philadelphia is Cherelle Parker,who is the first woman to hold the position.
Francis Cornwall Sherman served as Mayor of Chicago,Illinois,for three terms as a member of the Democratic Party.
Joseph Sill Clark Jr. was an American writer,lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the 90th Mayor of Philadelphia from 1952 to 1956 and as a United States senator from Pennsylvania from 1957 to 1969. Clark was the only Unitarian Universalist elected to a major office in Pennsylvania in the modern era.
William Lewis Dayton was an American politician,active first in the Whig Party and later in the Republican Party. In the 1856 presidential election,he became the first Republican vice-presidential nominee when nominated alongside John C. Frémont. The Republican Party lost that campaign. During the American Civil War,Dayton served as the United States Ambassador to France,a position in which he worked to prevent French recognition of the Confederate States of America.
Thomas George Pratt was a lawyer and politician from Annapolis,Maryland. He was the 27th governor of Maryland from 1845 to 1848 and a U.S. senator from 1850 to 1857.
Lynne Marsha Abraham is an American attorney who served as the district attorney of the City of Philadelphia from May 1991 to January 2010. She was the first woman to serve as Philadelphia's district attorney. Abraham won election to that position four times.
John Swift was an American lawyer and politician who served as a long-time mayor of Philadelphia. Born and died in Philadelphia,he was admitted to the bar in 1810. He was a leader of the Whigs of Philadelphia and served as mayor in several non-consecutive terms:1832–1838,1839–1841,and 1845–1849. In 1840,Swift became the first mayor to be elected by popular election. He is buried at Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia.
Job Roberts Tyson was an American politician who served as a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1855 to 1857.
Abraham Oakey Hall was an American politician,lawyer,and writer who served as Mayor of New York City from 1869 to 1872. He twice served as the New York County District Attorney from 1855 to 1858 and from 1862 to 1871.
Alexander Henry was an American politician who served three terms as mayor of Philadelphia,Pennsylvania from 1858 to 1865. He was elected as a member of the People's Party but served his second and third terms as a member of the Republican Party. He implemented major increases and improvements to the Philadelphia Police Department. During the American Civil War,he was a staunch supporter of the Union but worked to suppress violence against Confederate sympathizers in the city and helped organize civilians to assist in constructing earthworks to defend the city during the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign.
The 1851 New York state election was held on November 4,1851,to elect the Secretary of State,the State Comptroller,the State Attorney General,the State Treasurer,the State Engineer,a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals,a Canal Commissioner and an Inspector of State Prisons,as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.
The 1850–51 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913,senators were chosen by state legislatures. Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1850 and 1851,and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative deadlock. In these elections,terms were up for the senators in Class 1.
William Trevitt was a medical doctor,politician,diplomat,and newspaper publisher in 19th century Ohio. He served two times as Ohio Secretary of State,three years in the Ohio House of Representatives,was a surgeon in the Mexican–American War,and was a diplomat in South America.
John Morin Scott was an American politician who served as a Whig Party member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1815 to 1816,and again in 1839. He served several terms in the Common and Select Councils for Philadelphia and as president of the Select Council for Philadelphia from 1826 to 1832.
Morton McMichael was an American newspaper editor,publisher,civic leader and mayor of Philadelphia,Pennsylvania from 1866 to 1869.
The 1951 Philadelphia municipal election,held on Tuesday,November 6,was the first election under the city's new charter,which had been approved by the voters in April,and the first Democratic victory in the city in more than a half-century. The positions contested were those of mayor and district attorney,and all seventeen city council seats. There was also a referendum on whether to consolidate the city and county governments. Citywide,the Democrats took majorities of over 100,000 votes,breaking a 67-year Republican hold on city government. Joseph S. Clark Jr. and Richardson Dilworth,two of the main movers for the charter reform,were elected mayor and district attorney,respectively. Led by local party chairman James A. Finnegan,the Democrats also took fourteen of seventeen city council seats,and all of the citywide offices on the ballot. A referendum on city-county consolidation passed by a wide margin. The election marked the beginning of Democratic dominance of Philadelphia city politics,which continues today.
Joshua Gilpin was an American paper manufacturer from Philadelphia. Along with his brother,Thomas Gilpin,Jr. and his uncle Miers Fisher,he established the first paper manufacturing business in Delaware in 1787 at the Brandywine Village. In 1804,he introduced the technique of chemically bleaching paper-stuff from England to the United States.
1959 Philadelphia's municipal election,held on November 3,involved contests for mayor,all seventeen city council seats,and several other executive and judicial offices. Citywide,the Democrats took majorities of over 200,000 votes,continuing their success from the elections four years earlier. Richardson Dilworth,who had been elected mayor in 1955,was re-elected over Republican nominee Harold Stassen. The Democrats also took fifteen of seventeen city council seats,the most seats allowed to any one party under the 1951 city charter. They further kept control of the other citywide offices. The election represented a continued consolidation of control by the Democrats after their citywide victories of the previous eight years.
