Thomas Dyer

Thomas Dyer served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois 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.
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.
Running as a "pro-Nebraska" Democrat, Dyer won the contentious 1856 Chicago mayoral election, defeating former mayor Francis Cornwall Sherman.
He died in Middletown, Connecticut on June 6, 1862, and was buried at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.