Amos G. Throop - Amos Gager Throop (/trup/ TROOP; 18111894) was a businessman and politician in Chicago Illinois during the 1840s and 1850s. Most famously he was known for being a staunch abolitionist prior to the Civil War. In Chicago he lost two campaigns to be that city's mayor in 1852 and 1854. In both elections he was the nominee of the little-known Temperance Party facing tough opposition from the Democratic Party. At the time of the Great Chicago Fire Amos was the city treasurer. Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
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