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1894 Boston Mayoral Election
The 1894 Boston mayoral election occurred on Tuesday, December 11, 1894. Republican candidate Edwin Upton Curtis defeated Democratic candidate Francis Peabody Jr., and two other contenders, to win election as Mayor of Boston. This was the last Boston mayoral election for a one-year term; the city charter was changed in June 1895, increasing the mayoral term to two years. Curtis was inaugurated on Monday, January 7, 1895. Candidates * Edwin Upton Curtis (Republican), former City Clerk of Boston (1889–1890) * Phinehas P. Field (Populist) * Abijah Hall (Prohibition) * Francis Peabody Jr. (Democrat), attorney Results See also *List of mayors of Boston, Massachusetts References Further reading * External links Boston Mayor Race - Dec 11, 1894at ourcampaigns.com 1894 Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Upton Curtis
Edwin Upton Curtis (May 26, 1861 – March 28, 1922) was an American attorney and politician from Massachusetts who served as the 34th Mayor of Boston (1895–1896). Later, as Boston Police Commissioner (1918–1922), his refusal to recognize the union formed by the department's officers provoked the 1919 Boston Police Strike. Early years Curtis was the son of George and Martha Ann (Upton) Curtis, who were seventh-generation Bostonians. After attending the grammar and Latin schools in Roxbury, Curtis went to the little Blue Family School for Boys in Farmington, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College. Career After apprenticing with former Massachusetts governor (and former Boston mayor) William Gaston, Curtis studied law and took the bar. He and a Bowdoin classmate formed the law firm Curtis & Reed. He also became active in politics as a member of the Republican Party. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Party (United States)
The People's Party, also known as the Populist Party or simply the Populists, was a left-wing Agrarianism, agrarian populist political party in the United States in the late 19th century. The Populist Party emerged in the early 1890s as an important force in the Southern and Western United States, but collapsed after it nominated Democratic Party (United States), Democrat William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 United States presidential election. A Rump party, rump faction of the party continued to operate into the first decade of the 20th century, but never matched the popularity of the party in the early 1890s. The Populist Party's roots lay in the Farmers' Alliance, an agrarian movement that promoted economic action during the Gilded Age, as well as the Greenback Party, an earlier third party that had advocated fiat money. The success of Farmers' Alliance candidates in the 1890 United States elections, 1890 elections, along with the conservatism of both major parties, encouraged Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1894 United States Mayoral Elections
Events January–March * January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire. * January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United States. * January 9 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard, in Lexington, Massachusetts. * February 12 ** French anarchist Émile Henry sets off a bomb in a Paris café, killing one person and wounding twenty. ** The barque ''Elisabeth Rickmers'' of Bremerhaven is wrecked at Haurvig, Denmark, but all crew and passengers are saved. * February 15 ** In Korea, peasant unrest erupts in the Donghak Peasant Revolution, a massive revolt of followers of the Donghak movement. Both China and Japan send military forces, claiming to come to the ruling Joseon dynasty government's aid. ** At 04:51 GMT, French anarchist Martial Bourdin dies of an accidental detonation of his ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
