Everything about Levi Boone totally explained
Levi Day Boone (born:
December 6,
1808 in
Kentucky; died:
January 24,
1882; buried in
Rosehill Cemetery) served as mayor of
Chicago,
Illinois (
1855-
1856) on the
Know-Nothing Party.
Boone, a great-nephew of
Daniel Boone, graduated from the medical school of
Transylvania University in
Lexington, Kentucky and arrived in Chicago in
1835. He helped organize the
Cook County Medical Board and served as the organization's first secretary. Boone had a medical practice with
Charles V. Dyer. He was elected the first president of the
Chicago Medical Society in
1850.
He was elected mayor on an anti-
immigrant platform. Although Boone won, there were claims that the votes of
German and
Irish immigrants in
Bridgeport, which wasn't yet a part of the city, hadn't been counted. Boone also claimed that
scripture provided the basis for
slavery. His party opposed slavery, but on economic grounds, not moral ones.
In his first year in office, he established the first Chicago police force under
Luther Nichols. He barred all immigrants from city jobs. He also proposed an ordinance which would close taverns on Sundays and raise the cost of liquor licenses by 2,400%. Many saw this as a means of attacking German immigrants and on
April 21, the move sparked the
Lager Beer Riot after several tavern owners were arrested for selling beer on a Sunday.
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