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Harrison (CARTER HENRY an American)

CARTER HENRY, an American public official, born in Chicago in 1860. He graduated from St. Ignatius College in 1881 and afterward studied law at Yale. He engaged in the real-estate and publishing business in Chicago and was elected mayor of that city for 5 terms from 1897 to 1905 and from 1911 to 1915. During the World War he was in charge of the American Red Cross activities in 12 hospitals in France.