Dever, William E. (1862-1929)

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WILPF International Summer School (1924)

Tie on Widening Plan, November 27, 1906 (fragment)

John P. Altgeld Biography Subscription List, December 1922

Louis Freeland Post to Subscribers of the John P. Altgeld Biography, April 5, 1924

Thomas Jefferson Centennial Election Pamphlet, April 1926

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Board of Governors and Chicago Committee list, ca. June 1926

Thomas Jefferson Centennial Election, ca. June 1926

George Hull Porter to Jane Addams, June 3, 1926

Jane Addams, ca. January 1927

Emily Greene Balch to Laura Morris Evans, February 18, 1927

William E. Dever to Jane Addams, April 22, 1926

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Birth Date

1862-03-13

Death Date

1929-09-03

Birthplace

Woburn, Massachusetts

Biographical Text

William E. Dever was a leather tanner who moved to Chicago, eventually becoming an Alderman. He was the Mayor of Chicago throughout much of the unstable Prohibition period. Dever personally disagreed with the 18th Amendment but enforced it while attempting to minimize the damage from the gangsters, such as Al Capone. Afterward, he was Vice President and Trust Officer of the Bank of America. Dever died of cancer in 1929.

Dever married Katherine Conway Dever in 1887. They had two sons.