Carter Henry Harrison I (~1727 – 1793/1794), member of the Virginia House of Delegates
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Carter Harrison, Jr. (1860–1953), mayor of Chicago, 1897–1905 & 1911–1915
He was a member of many organizations including the Freemasons, Knights Templar, the Society of the Cincinnati, Sons of the Revolution, Sons of the American Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion and the Military Order of the World Wars.
Harrison's career and assassination are closely connected with the World's Columbian Exposition, and are discussed at some length as a subplot to the two main stories (about the fair and serial killer H. H. Holmes) in The Devil in the White City.
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Harrison ran an unsuccessful campaign in 1872 for election to the Forty-third Congress.
In 1893, after the assassination of Carter Harrison, Sr., the mayor of Chicago, he invented the first commercial bulletproof vest.
Carter H. Harrison II, a mayoral candidate, was an advocate for cyclists.
The next year, when it was displayed in a window of an art gallery in Chicago, Illinois (USA), it came to the attention of the mayor of the city, Carter Harrison, Jr., who charged the owner of the gallery with indecency.
During his career, he performed works by such choreographers as Kennet Oberly, Lauri Stallings, Bill Soleau, Septime Webre, Stephen Mills, Frank Chavez, and Ann Reinking; Reinking created the role of Carter Harrison in the ballet, "The White City: Chicago's Colombian Exposition".
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At the urging of the Mayor of Chicago, Carter Harrison, Jr., Mayer became involved in Chicago civic organizations, starting in 1912 when he was named to the board of the Chicago Public Library.
Patrick Eugene Prendergast (1868–1894), assassin of Chicago mayor Carter Harrison, Sr