About Chicago
Martin Henry Kennelly
38th Mayor of Chicago
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Party
- Democrat
Elected
- First term:
- February 25, 1947 (primary)
- Unopposed
- April 1, 1947 (general)
- Defeated Russell W. Root (Republican)
- February 25, 1947 (primary)
- Second term:
- February 27, 1951 (primary)
- Unopposed
- April 3, 1951 (general)
- Defeated Robert L. Hunter (Republican)
- February 27, 1951 (primary)
Inaugurations
- First term: April 15, 1947: Inaugural Address
- Second term: April 19, 1951: Inaugural Address
Terms of Office
- First term: 1947–1951
- Second term: 1951–1955
Birth
- August 11, 1887
- Chicago
Personal
- Quit school in grade school and took a job at Marshall Field & Co. as a stockroom boy
- Served in World War I, rising to the rank of captain in the quartermaster corps
- Served as director of the Chicago Association of Commerce
- Never married
- Headed the Werner-Kennelly company, a warehouse and trucking business
Death
- November 29, 1961
- Chicago
Gravesite
- Calvary Cemetery, Evanston, Ill.
Sources
- Chicago Daily Tribune, November 30, 1961, p. 1.
- Chicago Daily Tribune, December 1, 1961, p. A16.
- Grossman, James R., Ann Durkin Keating and Janice L. Reiff, editors. Encyclopedia of Chicago. University of Chicago Press, 2004.