1929 Indianapolis mayoral election

The Indianapolis mayoral election of 1929 took place in November 5, 1929 and saw Democrat Claude E. Negley, who defeated Republican incumbent John L. Duvall.^[1]

Duvall mayor had been elected in 1925 with the support of the Ku Klux Klan, and the Marion County Republican Party had close Klan ties.^[1] The City Council and school board both were composed of Klan-supported members.^[1] Opposition arose by 1929 to both the Klan and to the corruption in the city government.^[1]

Negeley defeated Duvall in a landslide victory.^[1]

Coinciding mayoral elections across the state also saw Klan-supported, generally Republican, mayors voted out and replaced by new, generally Democratic, mayors.^[1] Anderson, Elkhart, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Lafayette, Muncie, and Terre Haute all replaced Klan-supported Republicans with Democratic mayors in what the New York Times hoped would be, "The dawn of a more liberal and cleaner political day in Indiana".^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Madison, James H. (1982). Indiana Through Tradition and Change: A History of the Hoosier State and Its People, 1920-1945. Indiana Historical Society. pp. 73 and 74.

Preceded by 1925	Indianapolis mayoral election 1929	Succeeded by 1933

[madison-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Madison, James H. (1982). Indiana Through Tradition and Change: A History of the Hoosier State and Its People, 1920-1945. Indiana Historical Society. pp. 73 and 74.

[1]