Thomas Dyer
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Thomas Dyer (January 13, 1805Template:Spaced ndashJune 6, 1862) served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1856–1857) for the Democratic Party. He also served as the founding president of the Chicago Board of Trade.
Biography
Thomas Dyer was born in Canton, Connecticut on January 13, 1805.<ref name=Earliest>Template:Cite book</ref>
He was a meat-packing partner of former mayor John Putnam Chapin, who was one of Chicago's first meat packers. Chapin built a slaughterhouse on the South Branch of the Chicago River in 1844.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Running as a "pro-Nebraska" Democrat (aligned with Stephen A. Douglas, who publicly backed his candidacy), Dyer won the contentious 1856 Chicago mayoral election, defeating former mayor Francis Cornwall Sherman (who ran as an anti-Nebraska candidate).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872 by Robin L. Einhorn</ref>
He died in Middletown, Connecticut on June 6, 1862, and was buried at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.<ref name=Earliest/>
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Further reading
- Melvin G. Holli and Peter D'A. Jones, eds. Biographical Dictionary of American Mayors 1820-1980, (1981) p. 107.