John Maynard Harlan

John Maynard Harlan (1864–1934) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Chicago City Council. Harlan, multiple times, ran for the mayoralty of Chicago. He was the son and father of United States Supreme Court associate justices (the elder and the younger John Marshall Harlans, respectively). Early life and family Harlan was born December 12, 1864, in Frankfort, Kentucky. He was the youngest son of John Marshall Harlan (who would serve as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1877 through 1911) and Malvina Shanklin Harlan. Historically, Harlan's family had been politically active. His forebear George Harlan served as one of provincial governors of the lower three counties of the Province of Pennsylvania during the seventeenth century (these counties would later form the state of Delaware; his grandfather James Harlan was a congressman during the 1830s.