Editing Carter Harrison III (section)

==Assassination==
[[File:Carter H. Harrison's last speech, World's Fair, October 28, 1893 (NBY 3023) (a).jpg|thumb|Harrison delivers a speech during "American Cities Day" at the [[World's Columbian Exposition]] on October 28, 1893. He was [[assassinated]] later that day.]]
[[File:Harper's Weekly illustration of the assassination of Carter Harrison Sr.png|thumb|Illustration of Harrison's assassination]]
[[File:Grave of Carter Harrison Sr. (1825–1893) at Graceland Cemetery 1.jpg|thumb|Harrison's tomb at [[Graceland Cemetery]]]]

On October 28, 1893, a few months into his fifth term and just two days before the close of the World's Columbian Exposition, Harrison was murdered in his home by [[Patrick Eugene Prendergast]], an office-seeker who had supported Harrison's re-election under the idea that Harrison would reward him with an appointment to a post within his mayoral administration. Harrison was buried in Chicago's [[Graceland Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chipublib.org/mayor-carter-henry-harrison-iii-biography/ |title=Mayor Carter Henry Harrison III Biography |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=Chicago Public Library |access-date=September 9, 2017 }}</ref> As part of his funeral services, Harrison [[lay in state]] in the City Hall.<ref>{{cite web |title=Chicago's Mayor Killed |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/171710266 |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=Abbeville Press and Banner |access-date=21 May 2022 |language=en |url-access=subscription |date=15 Nov 1893}}</ref> A celebration planned for the close of the Exposition was cancelled and replaced by a large public memorial service for Harrison. Prendergast was sentenced to death for the crime and [[hanging|hanged]] on July 13, 1894.

While Harrison died at a time when the elites, Protestants, and Republicans of all kinds greatly disliked him, he never lost his core supporters of labor unions, Catholics and immigrants. He was Chicago's first mayor to be elected five times; eventually his son [[Carter Harrison IV]] was also elected mayor five times.

Harrison's career and assassination are closely associated with the World's Columbian Exposition, and are discussed at some length as a subplot to the two main stories (about the fair and serial killer [[H. H. Holmes]]) in [[Erik Larson (author)|Erik Larson]]'s best-selling 2003 non-fiction book ''[[The Devil in the White City]]''.