Julian Sidney Rumsey Republican Francis Cornwall Sherman Democratic In the Chicago mayoral election of 1862, Democrat Francis Cornwall Sherman won a second non-consecutive term, defeating Republican Party nominee Charles N. Holden.

Sherman had previously served as mayor two decades earlier, after winning the 1841 election.

[1] It was the second of four Chicago mayoral elections which took place during the course of the American Civil War.

Democratic nominee Francis Cornwall Sherman, was a businessman who had previously served as mayor from 1841 through 1842.

[2][3] Efforts had been made for the party to nominate former congressman and mayor John Wentworth.