Charles McNeill Gray [SEP] position held
Charles McNeill Gray
Charles McNeill Gray (March 7, 1807 in Sherburne, New York – October 17, 1885; buried in Graceland Cemetery) served as Mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1853–1854) for the Democratic Party.
Gray arrived in Chicago on July 17, 1834 and took a job as a clerk for Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, later working for Peter Cohen, a retail merchant. By 1844 he was a candle maker with his own shop. He subsequently worked as a manufacturer, contractor and railroad man. He
1854 Chicago mayoral election
In the 1854 Chicago mayoral election, Democrat Isaac Lawrence Milliken defeated Temperance Party nominee Amos G. Throop by a landslide 19.5% margin.
Throop had run previously in 1852.
Incumbent mayor Charles McNeill Gray did not run for reelection.
The election was held on March 13.
Campaigning.
Throop had the support of the city's temperance forces. Milliken supported giving Catholics a portion of the school fund and did not support temperance.