Charles Anson Bond (February 3, 1873 – January 5, 1943) was the
37th mayor of
Columbus, Ohio
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, USA, and the 34th person to hold that office.
Career
Bond was elected on November 5, 1907, 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
Bond Clothing Stores, Bond Clothes, Bond Clothiers, or Bond Stores, was a men's clothing manufacturing company and retailer. The company catered to the middle-class consumer.
History
The company was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914, when Mor ...
. 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
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, on January 5, 1943.
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Charles Anson Bondat ''
Political Graveyard
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Mayors of Columbus, Ohio
1873 births
1943 deaths
Ohio Republicans
People from Findlay, Ohio
20th-century mayors of places in Ohio
Burials at Green Lawn Cemetery (Columbus, Ohio)
20th-century American businesspeople