An election was held in New York City to election the President of its Council on November 2, 1897. The charter of the new City of Greater New York had created a bicameral Municipal Assembly, comprising an upper Council and a lower Board of Aldermen. The Council president was elected citywide while the Board of Aldermen elected its own president.
General election Candidates R. Ross Appleton, cotton goods broker and banker (Republican) Randolph Guggenheimer, philanthropist (Democratic) John H. Schumann, manufacturer and banker (Citizens Union and National Democratic) Jerome O'Neill, secretary of the New York Central Labor Union (Jeffersonian Democracy)
Schumann was a member of the Republican Party running on the Citizens Union ticket. He was a German-born resident of Brooklyn.
Results
Aftermath The bicameral Municipal Assembly would prove to be short-lived, and it was replaced with a unicameral Board of Aldermen in 1901, whose President was elected citywide.
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