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	Anton Cermak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anton Cermak, in Czech Antonín Čermák, (May 9, 1873 – March 6, 1933) was the mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1931 until his death in 1933.
		Cermak was elected president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners in 1922, chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party in 1928, and mayor of Chicago in 1931.
		Following Cermak's death, 22nd Street, a major east-west artery that traversed Chicago's West Side and the close-in suburbs of Cicero and Berwyn, areas with a significant Czech population, was renamed Cermak Road.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anton_Cermak (1052 words)

	ipedia.com: Anton Cermak Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Anton Cermak was the mayor of Chicago, Illinois from 1931 until his death in 1933.
		Born in Kladno, Bohemia, Cermak began his political career as a precinct captain and in 1902 was elected to the Illinois state legislature.
		Cermak's son-in-law, Otto Kerner, Jr, was governor of Illinois from 1961 to 1968 and later headed the Kerner Commission, which issued a report on race relations in the United States.
	www.ipedia.com /anton_cermak.html (410 words)

	Eastland Memorial Society - Anton Joseph Cermak
		Anton Joseph Cermak was born May 9th, 1873 in Kladno, Bohemia (a village near Prague), and emigrated to the United States as a child in 1874.
		Cermak was a founder and president of the Czech Assistance Committee, which was created in response to the capsizing of the Eastland.
		Cermak was the second mayor of Chicago to be assassinated.
	www.inficad.com /~ksup/cermak.html (630 words)

	Anton Cermak: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cermak died of his wounds on March 6.
		Cermak is considered the father of Chicago's great Democratic machine.
		The blue line of the chicago transit authority is one of two in the city that runs 24 hours a day....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/anton_cermak.htm (1127 words)

	Mayor Anton Cermak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Anton Joseph Cermak (1875-1933) was born in Kladno, Bohemia, and emigrated to the United States as a child.
		Cermak became a Democratic precinct worker, organized the United Societies for Local Self Government (a group with membership consisting mostly of thieves, gamblers and whores), and in 1902 became a state legislator.
		Cermak had been the second mayor of Chicago to be assassinated.
	www.graveyards.com /IL/Cook/bohemian/cermak.html (333 words)

	1931: Rolling out the Machine
		In April 1931, Cermak was elected Chicago's 38th mayor, an accomplishment that made him the city's first foreign-born (Bohemian) mayor as well as its first mayor not of Anglo-Saxon or Celtic origin.
		Cermak was a hard-nosed street politician who had battled Republicans and fellow Democrats in city wards for decades.
		Seizing the moment, Cermak parlayed his recently won chairmanship of the local Democratic Party organization, his unflinching support from Eastern European ethnic Chicagoans, his alliance with powerful new-breed (business-oriented) Irish politicians and his carefully reconstructed image of himself as a master executive and professional administrator into a landslide victory over Thompson.
	www.suntimes.com /century/m1931.html (681 words)

	Anton Cermak
		Cermak became active in the Democratic Party and in 1902 was elected to the state legislature.
		Cermak was able to use his inside knowledge of proposed government land purchase to speculate on real estate.
		Cermak became extremely wealthy and soon became leader of the party in the city.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAcermak.htm (359 words)

	Nitti
		Cermak had played an important role in getting Roosevelt the Democratic nomination when the convention was held in Chicago, and was looking forward to the political celebration.
		On February 15, 1933, as Roosevelt drove into the waterfront park, Cermak approached the automobile and was shot by Giuseppe Zangara, who jumped out of the crowd and fires several shots at the car.
		Cermak was in the hospital for three weeks before he succumbed to his wounds on March 6.
	crimemagazine.com /nitti.htm (1203 words)

	Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago
		But the rise of Anton J. Cermak is more than the story of personal success, for it carries with it the rise in importance of the group from which he descended and to which he remained faithful to the very end.
		Anton J. Cermak never forgot his humble beginnings and remained firmly rooted in the nationalistic group from which he arose.
		Anton J. Cermak with a thoroughness and vibrant energy so typical of his life, wanted so much to make good as the World's Fair Mayor, he wanted so much through his personal efforts to remove the stigma of slurs that clung injuriously to the name of Chicago.
	www.iarelative.com /cz1933/cermak.htm (410 words)

	AmericanMafia.com - Feature Articles 197
		Cermak was a hustler who saw his opportunity in the rough and tumble world of Chicago's ethnic politics.
		Cermak was also a greedy man who wanted to be rich and the roads he used to riches was to form an organization called the United Societies, a high-sounding name for nothing more then a shakedown operation.
		As Newberry and Cermak saw it, with Capone and most of his top men behind bars, or on the run from the law, what was left of the syndicate would easily fall apart.
	www.americanmafia.com /Feature_Articles_197.html (2472 words)

	Eastland Memorial Society - Guiseppe Zangara
		Guiseppe Zangara, also known as Joseph Zangara, is infamous for the murder of the mayor of Chicago, Anton J. Cermak during an assasination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.
		Cermak suffered from an abdominal wound and was taken immediately to the hospital in Roosevelt's car.
		When Cermak died on March 3, Zangara was put on trial for his murder and was sentenced to death in the electric chair at the Florida State Penitentiary in Raiford.
	www.inficad.com /~ksup/zangara.html (892 words)

	Politicians on Stage, 1931
		Cermak's election as mayor in 1931 was attributable in large part to his use of incentives and threats to secure the support of different factions of the Democratic Party, including former rivals like Smith and Bundesen.
		As president of the Board of Commissioners of Cook County since 1922, and the dominant county Democratic leader after 1928, Cermak commanded considerable patronage.
		Others fell into line as Cermak outmaneuvered his opponents and constructed a new, multiethnic, citywide Democratic "machine" that would be reinforced by his successors.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/3742.html (203 words)

	Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Anton attended just three years of Elementary School being forced into mining work to help support his family.
		Mayor Anton Cermak was placed in the family mausoleum.
		Many memorials exist: Chicago's 22nd street, the main thoroughfare through the Czechoslovak neighborhoods has been re-named Cermak Avenue while a branch of the Blueline of the Chicago El is known as the "Cermak Branch." A Cook County man made fishing lake and park is dubbed Cermak Quarry.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2865 (333 words)

	Ancestry Message Boards [ Cermak ]
		Anton Cermak Mayor of Chicago : Susan Block -- 11 Mar 2003
		Re: Anton Cermak Mayor of Chicago : Vit Cermak -- 17 Mar 2003
		Re: Anton Cermak Mayor of Chicago : herwig zott -- 5 Oct 2003
	boards.ancestry.com /mbexec/board/an/surnames.Cermak (238 words)

	Roosevelt and Kennedy - The Education Forum
		Anton J. Cermak was born in 1873 in Kladno, a town near Prague, Czechoslovakia.
		When he was 19, in 1892, Anton Cermak started his own hauling business in Chicago.
		By 1902, Anton Cermak was an Illinois State Representative.
	educationforum.ipbhost.com /index.php?showtopic=654 (1393 words)

	Stephenson County Historical Society: About the Society
		Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, shot while making a public appearance with FDR, was buried in this graveyard.
		Cermak's fatal mistake was sending police to rough up Frank Nitti, head of Chicago's most powerful mob.
		Assassin Guiseppe Zangara shot Cermak while he was on stage with the president-elect in Miami.
	www.stephcohs.org /cemetery.htm (467 words)

	AmericanMafia.com - Feature Articles 200
		Before he entered the room, Zangara asked to see all of the exits and entrances to the hotel, then he went to his room, left the door open, sat on the edge of the bed and stared down the hallway towards the front door of the hotel.
		Cermak and Clark had known each other when Clark was assigned to the Chicago Office of the Secret Service.
		Cermak didn't die from his bullet wounds, but it was close enough for Zangara to be placed on trial for murder.
	www.americanmafia.com /Feature_Articles_200.html (2175 words)

	Franklin D. Roosevelt Assassination Attempt - FBI Freedom of Information Act Files - Miami Public Pages
		One bullet struck Chicago's Mayor Anton Cermak who was shaking hands with Roosevelt at the time.
		Anton Cermak subsequently died from his wounds two weeks later, and Zangara was immediately tried for his murder.
		Zangara was sentenced to the electric chair and executed on March 20 at Raiford.
	digital.library.miami.edu /gov/FDRAssn.html (450 words)

	Green Line's Cermak Stop May be Rebuilt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Green Line's Cermak L station was torn down in 1978, a year after being shuttered so the cash-strapped CTA could save money.
		The street later was named for Mayor Anton Cermak, and so went the name of the station, which closed in 1977.
		While walking down Cermak one recent afternoon, April Marcus said she might ride the L more if the station was built.
	www.chicago-l.org /articles/cermak.html (361 words)

	The Neil Rogers Show - News - There's no Braveheart running the White House
		Near his automobile was Anton J. (Tony) Cermak, the Mayor of Chicago.
		Anton Cermak lived only a short time, but in the gloom of his death, and the Great Depression that F.D.R. would shortly have to contend with, the nation found out it had elected a man who defied danger, who kept his wits and his command of himself and others under fire, who was a leader.
		A few days later, Roosevelt was inaugurated and told the nation that it had "nothing to fear but fear itself." By his actions, he had made his words believable.
	news.neilrogers.com /news/articles/2004040811.html (1293 words)

	Horner
		Horner had been a probate judge in Cook County for 18 years when, with the backing of Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, he ran for governor in 1932.
		He then snubbed Cermak by appointing men he thought would be best for the job rather than loyal Democrats.
		Cermak was assassinated in Florida two months after Horner became governor, but Horner didn’t get along any better with the next mayor, Edward J. Kelly.
	www.adaustin.com /HBA/documents/HORNER.HTM (818 words)

	Skolnick - Uncle Sugar And His Sugar Bowl
		[Cermak was in the illegal booze business in competition in Chicago with Al Capone and another gang.] There was a plan to scare Roosevelt into accepting Hoover's plea.
		Actually, there was a lone gunman, as a patsy, and then a separate group of assassins, the real shooters, For complicated reasons relating to Cermak and Capone, the real assassins shot to death Cermak.
		In the 1970s, our investigations sent Cermak's son-in-law, Chicago Federal Appeals Judge Otto Kerner, Jr., to prison for bribery, the highest level sitting federal judge to be thus jailed in U.S. history.] The way the patsy was blamed was similar to the patsy, Sirhan Sirhan, in the Bobby Kennedy murder, 1968.
	www.rense.com /general26/sugar.htm (2000 words)

	Timeline: 1933-1935 - A History of Corrections in Florida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On the way to the hospital he cradled Anton Cermak's head on his shoulder and kept talking to him -- "Tony, keep quiet, don't move, Tony" -- a steady murmur of encouragement that doctors later said kept Cermak from going into shock.
		Walter Winchell, who was in Miami that night, immediately concluded that Zangara was not a presidential assassin but a hit man for the Chicago mob who had been sent to shoot the man he did in fact shoot: Mayor Anton Cermak.
		Many people agreed; Cermak was a reform mayor and dedicated anti-Prohibitionist who had made enemies in the underworld, but Zangara insisted that he wanted to shoot only "kings and presidents" and disclaimed all ties to all groups except the bricklayers' union, which, he said, he had joined only because he had to.
	www.dc.state.fl.us /oth/timeline/1933-1935.html (1555 words)

	Cermak Family Genealogy Forum
		Andreas Cermak (and#268;ermak) of Veterov, Moravia - Ronald Mlejnek 4/30/03
		Anton J. Cermak - Karen Meyers Newton 7/21/00
		Re: Anton J. Cermak - karen Newton 8/07/01
	genforum.genealogy.com /cermak (137 words)

	Assassination Attempt on Franklin Roosevelt
		Cermak was loaded into the car and comforted on the ride to the hospital by the president-elect.
		Zangara was quickly tried and convicted on charges of assault with the intent to kill; he was sentenced to 80 years in prison.
		Zangara was hastily retried and convicted on murder charges; he insisted on pleading guilty despite the belief of some that doctors had misdiagnosed Cermak’s condition and contributed to his death.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1516.html (577 words)

	12
		Story is that he got into trouble, probably gambling debts, and was offered a choice, be tortured and killed by the mob, or do a job and go to the chair.
		Mayor of Chicago: Anton Cermak, making war on Outfit to place his own gangsters in, Teddy Newberry.
		In Feb, 1933, was showing off with FDR in open car in Miami, when Zangara opened fire and "missed" the president, but hit Cermak.
	www.fsu.edu /~crimdo/faculty/waddell/twelve.html (1010 words)

	SECTION SEVEN EMAIL PAGE TEN
		After returning to Miami, he went to a park, where, seated in the back of an open touring car, he spoke to some thousands of people, one of whom was Anton Cermak, the Mayor of Chicago.
		Cermak stood close to the President-elect and thus was in the direct line of fire when an assassin took aim at Roosevelt.
		Or there is the example of Abraham Lincoln, repeatedly warned not to appear in public, who told his bodyguards that their protecting him could not be allowed to interfere with his connection to the people who had chosen him to lead them and the nation.
	www.bigmagic.com /pages/blackj/column64f10.html (1269 words)

	Mayors of Chicago
		Anton Cermak began his political career as a precinct captain and in 1902 was elected to the Illinois state legislature.
		Once elected mayor, in 1931, Cermak treated the city as if it were a personal business and tried to provide the best service possible.
		When Anton Cermak was killed by Giuseppe Zangara in 1933, Cook County Democratic Chariman Pat Nash chose Kelly, who had never held an elected office, as Cermak's successor.
	www.geocities.com /athens/4208/mayors.html (3948 words)

	1933: Awe-inspiring fair takes center stage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But there was no work for my grandfather, Anton Aarns, who moved here with his wife and toddler son after losing his Downstate home and coal mining job to the Depression.
		No wonder Mayor Anton Cermak, an old coal hauler who got the Democratic Machine humming, was a fan of President-elect Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and traveled to Miami to meet him.
		The two were riding in a parade on Feb. 15 when Giuseppe Zangara fired at their car and hit Cermak and four others.
	www.suntimes.com /century/m1933x.html (713 words)

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