death_date children birth_date residence term_end death_place imagesize term_start order spouse image name predecessor birth_place party office state district successor article_title
28 october 1893 william grayson , randolf , harry grayson , william preston , , gracie , edith caroline dudley , carter henry , hebe 15 february 1825 chicago , illinois march office -rrb- 3 , 1879 1887 1893 -lrb- assassinated in chicago , illinois 250px march 4 , 1875 1879 1893 29th 33rd margarette stearns , sophonisba grayson preston carter harrison , sr. - brady-handy . jpg carter harrison , sr. . jasper d. ward monroe heath hempstead washburne fayette county , kentucky democratic mayor of chicago mayor of chicago illinois 2nd george r. davis john a. roche george bell swift carter harrison , sr. .

carter harrison , sr. .

carter henry harrison , sr. -lrb- february 15 , 1825october 28 , 1893 -rrb- was an american politician who served as mayor of chicago , illinois from 1879 until 1887 ; he was subsequently elected to a fifth term in 1893 but was assassinated before completing his term .
he previously served two terms in the united states house of representatives .
harrison was the first cousin twice removed of president william henry harrison .
born near lexington , kentucky to carter henry harrison ii and caroline russell , he was only a few months old when his father died .
he was educated by private tutors , and was graduated from yale college in 1845 as a member of scroll and key .
following graduation , he traveled and studied in europe from 1851 to 1853 before entering transylvania college in lexington , where he earned a law degree in 1855 .
he was admitted to the bar in 1855 and commenced practice in chicago ; harrison came to chicago because he saw it as a land of opportunity .
harrison ran an unsuccessful campaign in 1872 for election to the forty-third congress .
beginning in 1874 , he served as a member of the board of commissioners of cook county .
he was elected as a democrat to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses , and delegate to the 1880 and 1884 democratic national conventions .
harrison married margarette -lrb- or margaret -rrb- e. stearns in 1882 , following the death of his first wife in 1876 .
she was the daughter of chicago pioneer marcus c. stearns .
