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John Peter Altgeld (December 30, 1847 - March 12, 1902) was the governor of the U.S. state of Illinois from 1893 until 1897. He was the first Democratic governor of that state since the 1850s. Altgeld was admired by other leaders of the Progressive Era movement as one of the few incorruptible politicians who would stand up for the rights of workers. Image File history File links Johnatgeld2. ...
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Early years
Altgeld, the son of John P. Altgeld (born 1818) and Mary (born 1821), was born in Niederselters, Prussia (now in Hessen, Germany). He came to America early in life with his father's family, who settled on a farm near Mansfield, Ohio. He left home at age 16 to join the Union Army (lying about his age), where he fought in Virginia with an ill-fated regiment and nearly died of fever. He then worked on his father's farm, studied in the library of a neighbor and at a private school in Lexington, Ohio, and for two years taught school. After a brief stint in an Ohio seminary, he walked to Missouri and studied to become a lawyer while working on itinerant railroad construction crews. He was elected district attorney of Andrew County, Missouri, and a year later resigned and moved to Chicago, where he founded a prosperous law firm that soon employed such rising stars as Clarence Darrow. He also became wealthy from a series of savvy real estate dealings and development projects, most notably the Unity Building (1891), the 16-story office building that was at that time Chicago's tallest building. The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (German: Preußen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: Prūsai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia and...
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Political life Altgeld ran for Congress in Illinois's Fourth Congressional District in 1884. Although this district was heavily Republican, Altgeld garnered 45.5 percent of the vote in his race against incumbent George Adams, a better showing than well-known Democrat Lambert Tree had made two years earlier. As a Republican leader recalled, "He (Altgeld) was not elected, but our executive committee was pretty badly frightened by the strong canvass he made." He was elected to a judgeship in 1886, and served on the bench until 1891. George Adams is the name of several people: George Adams (optician), an optician and scientific writer. ...
He was drafted by the Democrats to run for governor, and narrowly defeated incumbent Joseph W. Fifer. He suffered a nervous breakdown shortly after his victory, and nearly died of a concomitant fever. He managed to appear at his inauguration, but was only able to deliver a brief portion of his speech. (Although the General Assembly hall was so warm as to cause several men to faint, Altgeld, clad in a heavy topcoat, was pale and visibly shivering.) The clerk of the Assembly delivered the remainder of his speech. Joseph Wilson Fifer (October 28, 1840 – August 6, 1938) was a Republican governor of Illinois, serving from 1889 to 1893. ...
Altgeld recovered, and as governor he spearheaded the nation's most stringent child labor and workplace safety laws, appointed women to important positions in the state government, and vastly increased state funding for education. However, he is best remembered for pardoning the three surviving suspects of a bombing who were convicted after the Haymarket Riot. He also strongly disagreed with President Grover Cleveland's decision to send federal troops to Chicago during the Pullman Strike, a highly unusual stance for a state governor at that time. When the besieged Pullman Workers rioted a month later, Altgeld, at the request of the mayor of Chicago, sent in the state militia, which killed seven workers. This incident and the pardons were used against him by his political enemies, industrialists and conservatives, and, after enduring perhaps the greatest firestorm of negative press ever encountered by an American politician, he was defeated for reelection in 1896 by John R. Tanner. The Haymarket Riot on 4 May 1886 in Chicago, Illinois is the origin of international May Day observances and in popular literature inspired the caricature of the bomb-throwing anarchist. The causes of the incident are still controversial, although deeply polarized attitudes separating the business and working communities in the...
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd (1885–1889) and 24th (1893–1897) President of the United States, and the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms. ...
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Altgeld did not go down without a fight, however. He was instrumental in driving President Cleveland from the national Democratic ticket, and campaigned hard for William Jennings Bryan. Typical was the reaction of Harper's Weekly, which in October 1896 endorsed William McKinley for fear that Bryan would be a puppet of Altgeld, "the ambitious and unscrupulous Illinois communist." Both Altgeld and Bryan lost in Illinois, although Altgeld outpolled Bryan by 10,000 votes. Interestingly enough, Altgeld was popular enough in the Democratic party that, if he had been a native-born citizen, there was the possibility of he himself being nominated to run for President. William Jennings Bryan, 1907 William Jennings Bryan, (March 19, 1860–July 26, 1925) born in Salem, Illinois, was a gifted orator and three-time United States Democratic nominee for President. ...
Harpers Weekly Inauguration Number 1897 Harpers Weekly (A Journal of Civilization) was an American political magazine published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916. ...
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Altgeld also ran for Mayor of Chicago as the candidate of the Municipal Ownership Party in 1899. Although an early favorite to win, he finished a humiliating third, garnering only 15.56 percent of the vote. Mayors of Chicago, Illinois, Current or Previous The mayoral term in Chicago was two years from 1837 through 1907, at which time it was lengthened to four years. ...
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Image File history File links Download high resolution version (500x667, 58 KB)Altgelds grave at Graceland, Uptown, Chicago, IL, USA. Photo by J. Crocker on 20-June-2004. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (500x667, 58 KB)Altgelds grave at Graceland, Uptown, Chicago, IL, USA. Photo by J. Crocker on 20-June-2004. ...
Graceland Cemetery is a large Victorian-era cemetery located in the North Side neighborhood of Lakeview, in the city of Chicago, Illinois. ...
Final years Altgeld's final years were sad. Sickly since his brush with death in the Civil War, he had suffered from locomotor ataxia while governor, impairing his ability to walk. A reversal of financial fortune led to the loss of all his property except his heavily mortgaged personal residence. Only the intervention of his friend and former protégé Clarence Darrow saved him from complete financial ruin. He was working as a lawyer in Darrow's firm when he died of a cerebral hemorrhage he suffered while delivering a speech in Joliet on behalf of the Boers. He was 54 years old. Thousands filed past his body as it lay in state in the lobby of the Chicago Public Library, and he was eulogized by Darrow and Hull House founder Jane Addams. Altgeld is buried in Uptown's Graceland Cemetery. Tabes dorsalis (also called locomotor ataxia) is a late form of syphilis resulting in a degeneration of the dorsal columns of the spinal cord and marked by shooting pains, emaciation, loss of muscular coordination (resulting in the wide-based unsteady gait characteristic of the disease), and disturbances of sensation and...
Joliet is a city located in both Will and Kendall County, Illinois and is a suburb southwest of Chicago. ...
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