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Augustus Garrett
	Augustus Garrett
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7th Mayor of Chicago
	In office; 1843 – 1844
Preceded by	Benjamin Wright Raymond
Succeeded by	Alson Sherman
9th Mayor of Chicago
	In office; 1845 – 1846
Preceded by	Alson Sherman
Succeeded by	John Putnam Chapin
Born	1801 (month and day unknown); New York
Died	November 30, 1848; Chicago, Illinois
Political party	Democratic Party
Spouse(s)	Eliza Clark
Residence	Chicago, Illinois

Augustus Garrett (1801 - November 30, 1848; buried in Rosehill Cemetery) twice served as Mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1843-1844, 1845-1846) for the Democratic Party.

Garrett married Eliza Clark in 1825 and moved to Chicago from New York in 1834. He had a small auction house near the Chicago River and by the following year had formed a partnership with the Brown Brothers, which allowed him to become a leading land speculator and auctioneer. By October 1836, he had sales of more than $1.8 million.

Elected mayor in 1843, he won re-election in 1844 only to have the election invalidated. During his terms in office, Garrett pushed to have the first brick school in Chicago, Dearborn School, turned into either a warehouse or an insane asylum, believing that the building was too large for use as a school.^[1]

Following his death, Eliza established the Garrett Bible Institute, now Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, in nearby Evanston, Illinois.

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^ Gale, Edwin O. (1902). Reminiscences of Early Chicago and Vicinity. Chicago: Revell. pp. 384.

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[0] Gale, Edwin O. (1902). Reminiscences of Early Chicago and Vicinity. Chicago: Revell. pp. 384.

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