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]

Charles Anson Bond
37th Mayor of Columbus
In office
1908–1909
Preceded byDe Witt C. Badger
Succeeded byGeorge S. Marshall
Personal details
Born(1873-02-03)February 3, 1873
Findlay, Ohio, US
DiedJanuary 5, 1943(1943-01-05) (aged 69)
Resting placeGreen Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio
Political partyRepublican
Spouse(s)Blanche Hull
Lelia Keys
ChildrenCharles Anson
Girard
Louise

Career

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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.

 
Headstone

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

References

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Bibliography

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  • "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

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  • "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.
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Political offices
Preceded by Mayor of Columbus, Ohio
1908-1909
Succeeded by