“I remember how brave it was when he ran for mayor,” said former Ald. Dick Simpson, who supported Richard E. Friedman in the race. “Most people were afraid to do that because of the power of the machine.”
Republican candidate for Chicago mayor Richard Friedman at a news conference in his office on March 29, 1971.
Born Richard Emanuel Friedman in the Austin neighborhood, Friedman graduated from private schools. In 1951, he received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Grinnell College in Iowa, driving a taxicab to support himself. Friedman then moved to south suburban Flossmoor with his family and enrolled at Northwestern University’s School of Law, where he worked on Republican Robert Merriam’s unsuccessful 1955 mayoral campaign against Daley.
“I suppose I got frustrated running the BGA,” Friedman told the Tribune in 1971. “You see all that’s going on and you really can’t do anything about it. I want to do something. I like to do things.” In the end, however, Daley defeated Friedman with nearly 70% of the vote, winning all but two of the city’s 50 wards.
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