John Patrick Hopkins
29th Mayor of Chicago
Party:
Democrat
Elected:
December 19, 1893
Defeated George B. Swift (Republican), Michael Britzius (Socialist) and Ebenezer Wakely (People's Party)
Inauguration:
December 27, 1893: Inaugural Address
Term of office:
1893-1895
Birth:
October 29, 1858
Buffalo, NY
Personal:
1880 - Worked as a machinist with the Pullman Palace Car Co.
1888 – Started the Arcade Trading Co. which later became the Secord and Hopkins Co.
Chicago’s first Irish Catholic mayor
Held many positions in national Democratic party
Never married
Died of influenza while State Council of Defense
Death:
October 13, 1918
Chicago, IL
Gravesite:
Calvary Cemetery, Chicago
Sources:
Grossman, James R., Ann Durkin Keating, and Janice L. Reiff, editors. Encyclopedia of Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Chicago Daily Tribune, Oct. 14, 1918, pg. 13.
Chicago Daily Tribune, Oct. 17, 1918, pg. 5.