Charles Anson Bond

Charles Anson Bond
37th Mayor of Columbus
In office 1908–1909
Preceded by	De Witt C. Badger
Succeeded by	George S. Marshall
Personal details
Born	(1873-02-03)February 3, 1873 Findlay, Ohio, US
Died	January 5, 1943(1943-01-05) (aged 69)
Resting place	Green Lawn Cemetery Columbus, Ohio
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Blanche Hull Lelia Keys
Children	Charles Anson Girard Louise

Charles Anson Bond (February 3, 1873^[1] – January 5, 1943) was the 37th mayor of Columbus, Ohio, USA, and the 34th person to hold that office.^[2]

Career

Bond was elected on November 5, 1907,^[3] and served one term. The campaign was one of the dirtiest in Columbus history and, two weeks after winning the election, Bond's wife Blanche Hull Bond died in childbirth. As a result, he was at a disadvantage when he took the oath of office and only mounted a half-hearted re-election campaign in 1909, when he was defeated by George S. Marshall.

Following the 1909 election, Bond relocated his family to Cleveland, Ohio, and co-founded Bond Clothing Stores. While he had owned and operated a menswear store under his name in Columbus, Ohio, before his election as mayor of Columbus, Bond Clothing Stores was created as a retail business for selling suits manufactured by the factory co-owned by Bond, Mortimer Slater and Lester Cohen. Bond sold his interests and naming rights in the 1920s to take up horse breeding in Virginia.

Following retirement from public office, Bond married his late wife's second cousin, Leila Keys, of Cleveland.

He died in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, on January 5, 1943.^[4]

References

Bibliography

• "Bond, Charles Anson (1873-1/5/1943)". Columbus in Historic Photographs. Columbus. Ohio: Columbus Metropolitan Library. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
• Columbus Police Benevolent Association (1908). History of the Police Department of Columbus, Ohio. Columbus, Ohio – via Google Books.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Egger, Charles, ed. (1975). Columbus Mayors (PDF). Columbus, Ohio: Columbus Citizen-Journal.

Further reading

• "Charles Anson Bond Obituary". The Columbus Dispatch. Columbus, Ohio. January 6, 1943. p. 6A.
• "Mayor Loses His Wife. Man Elected to Office in Columbus Bereaved by Death in Hospital". The Plain Dealer. Cleveland, Ohio. December 7, 1907. p. 1, col. 6.
• Oleson, Olaf (1908). "The Saloon In Our Town". Collier's. 42 (3). Crowell-Collier Publishing Company: 24–25.

External links

• Charles Anson Bond at Political Graveyard

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Mayors of Columbus, Ohio

1. Jarvis W. Pike
2. John Kerr
3. Eli C. King
4. John Laughrey
5. William T. Martin
6. James Robinson
7. William Long
8. Philo H. Olmsted
9. John Brooks
10. John Bailhache
11. Warren Jenkins
12. Philo H. Olmsted
13. John G. Miller
14. Thomas Wood
15. Abram I. McDowell
16. Smithson E. Wright
17. Alexander Patton
18. Augustus S. Decker
19. Alexander Patton
20. Lorenzo English
21. Wray Thomas
22. James G. Bull
23. George W. Meeker
24. James G. Bull
25. John H. Heitmann
26. Gilbert G. Collins
27. George S. Peters
28. Charles C. Walcutt
29. Philip H. Bruck
30. George J. Karb
31. Cotton H. Allen
32. Samuel L. Black
33. Samuel J. Swartz
34. John N. Hinkle
35. Robert H. Jeffrey
36. De Witt C. Badger
37. Charles A. Bond
38. George S. Marshall
39. George J. Karb
40. James J. Thomas
41. Henry W. Worley
42. Myron B. Gessaman
43. Floyd F. Green
44. Jim A. Rhodes
45. Robert T. Oestreicher
46. Jack Sensenbrenner
47. Ralston Westlake
48. Jack Sensenbrenner
49. Tom Moody
50. Buck Rinehart
51. Greg Lashutka
52. Michael B. Coleman
53. Andrew Ginther