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HAROLD WASHINGTON
Harold Washington was an African American politician who
gained national prominence as the first African American
mayor of Chicago.
He served in the Illinois House of Representatives, the Illinois
State Senate, and the U.S. House of Representatives. During
his second term in Congress, Washington was persuaded by
black leaders to enter the 1983 mayoral race in Chicago.
Campaigning for reform and an end to city patronage, he won
the Democratic nomination by upsetting incumbent Mayor
Jane Byrne and Richard M. Daley, the son of four-term mayor
Richard J. Daley.
In the general election, Washington narrowly defeated
Bernard Epton, a virtually unknown white Republican, in a
record voter turnout tinged with racial overtones.
Washington was often unable to implement his programs
during his first term in office because the opposition in
City Council controlled a majority of the 50 council seats.
Washington ruled by veto.
After a court ruled that several ward boundaries violated the
law by disfranchising minority voters, new elections in those wards finally gave him control of the council
in 1986. The following year he was easily reelected to a second term even though he had pushed through an
unpopular $70 million property tax increase.
By the final months of 1987, Mayor Harold Washington was finally having things his own way. Elected to a
second term earlier in the year, Washington had a majority of the city’s 50 aldermen working with him.
During his time as mayor, Washington had chipped away at the Democratic machine’s patronage system by
appointing professionals, minorities and women to city positions. He had worked for economic development
in neighborhoods rather than just downtown.
Sitting in his fifth-floor office in City Hall one morning, talking to a press aide, he suddenly slumped over, his
face resting on the desktop. He had suffered a heart attack and died in office.
britannica.com/biography/Harold-Washington and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Washington
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