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Fred A. Busse

32nd Mayor of Chicago

Fred A. Busse photo
Chicago. Dept. of Public Works. Annual Report. 1907.
Party
  • Republican
Elected
  • April 2, 1907
    • Defeated William A. Brubaker (Prohibition), Edward F. Dunne (Democrat) and George Koop (Socialist)
Inauguration
Term of Office
  • 1907–1911
Birth
  • March 3, 1866
  • Chicago
Personal
  • His father, Gustave Busse, was a captain for the Union in the Civil War
  • President of Busse Coal Co.
  • 1894: Elected to Illinois State House, re-elected 1896
  • 1898: Elected to Illinois State Senate
  • 1902: Elected State Treasurer
  • 1905: President Roosevelt named him postmaster
  • 1907: First mayor to serve four-year term, second Chicago-born mayor
  • 1908: Secretly married Miss Josephine Lee; they had no children
  • Attained rank of 32nd degree Mason
Death
  • July 9, 1914
  • Chicago
Gravesite
  • Graceland Cemetery, Chicago

Sources
  • Chicago Daily Tribune, April 3, 1907, p. 5.
  • Chicago Daily Tribune, July 10, 1914, p. 5.
  • Grossman, James R., Ann Durkin Keating and Janice L. Reiff, editors. Encyclopedia of Chicago. University of Chicago Press, 2004.