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In the Chicago mayoral election of 1861, Republican Julian Sidney Rumsey defeated People’s nominee Thomas Barbour Bryan by a ten-point margin.
The election took place on April 16, 1861.[1]
The election was the first of four Chicago mayoral elections which took place during the course of the American Civil War.