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    James M. Calhoun (February 12, 1811 – October 1, 1875) was an American politician who served as the sixteenth mayor of Atlanta, Georgia during the American...
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  • Calhoun (politician, born 1802) (1802–1852), American politician, first governor of the Territory of New Mexico James Calhoun (Atlanta politician) (1811–1875)...
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    Calhoun was born in Decatur, Georgia, son of fellow Atlanta mayor James Calhoun. The family moved to Atlanta in 1852 and, at the age of sixteen, William began...
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  • 1875) was a Georgia musician, businessman, and politician who served as the acting mayor of Atlanta, during the early part of the American Civil War...
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    faction, he strongly supported the War of 1812. Calhoun served as Secretary of War under President James Monroe and, in that position, reorganized and modernized...
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  • Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia James Calhoun (politician, born 1802) (1802–1852), Georgia politician, Army colonel, federal Indian agent, and...
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  • James Beverly Langford (April 11, 1922 – April 14, 1996) was an American lawyer and politician. Langford was born in Calhoun, Georgia and graduated from...
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  • James Etheldred Williams (January 16, 1826 – April 10, 1900) was an American politician who served as a two-term mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, during Reconstruction...
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  • James Warren English (October 28, 1837 – February 15, 1925) was an American politician, bank president, and a staff officer during the American Civil War...
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    John H. James (July 14, 1830 – July 14, 1917) was an American banker, politician, and businessman who served as the 21st Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, in...
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    Clark Atlanta University (CAU or Clark Atlanta) is a private, Methodist, historically black research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Clark Atlanta is the...
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    Maynard Jackson (category Burials at Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta))
    1938 – June 23, 2003) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 54th mayor of Atlanta, Georgia from 1974 to 1982, and again as the city's...
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    James Stoddard Boynton (May 7, 1833 – December 22, 1902) was an American politician and jurist. Boynton was born in Henry County, Georgia on May 7, 1833...
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    James G. Woodward (January 14, 1845 – August 29, 1923) was an American newspaperman and politician, having served as the 36th, 39th and 43rd Mayor of Atlanta...
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    "Artists and bands from Atlanta, GA". AllMusic. Retrieved July 11, 2024. Page Fernandez, Nancy (2017). "Biography of Cora Catherine Calhoun Horne (Horn), 1865–1932"...
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    William B. Hartsfield (category Mayors of Atlanta)
    1890 – February 22, 1971), was an American politician who served as the 49th and 51st Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. His tenure extended from 1937 to 1941...
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  • James Lee Key (1867–1939) was a lawyer who served a total of four terms as the 45th and 48th Mayor of Atlanta. James L. Key was born in DeKalb County,...
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  • Sam Massell (category Atlanta City Council members)
    13, 2022) was an American businessman and politician who served from 1970 to 1974 as the 53rd mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. He was the first Jewish mayor in...
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    Benjamin Harrison (category Politicians from Indianapolis)
    Harrison and the regiment joined General Sherman's Atlanta campaign in the Army of the Cumberland. Calhoun 2005, pp. 36–44; Wallace 1888, pp. 209–225. "The...
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  • William Ezzard (category Mayors of Atlanta)
    March 24, 1887) was a Southern United States politician who served as the 11th, 13th and 19th Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, in the 19th century. Ezzard was...
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    Vardaman, Mississippi (category Towns in Calhoun County, Mississippi)
    town in Calhoun County, Mississippi. The town's population was 1,316 at the time of the 2010 United States Census. The town is named after James Kimble...
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  • Thomas Gibbs (mayor) (category Mayors of Atlanta)
    (1798–1859) was an American politician who served as the 5th mayor of Atlanta. Thomas Gibbs was born in 1798. In John H. James' remembrances of this time...
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    Charles A. Collier (category Mayors of Atlanta)
    September 28, 1900) was an American banker, lawyer, and politician who served as Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, from 1897 to 1899. Collier was born in 1848...
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    Courtland Winn (category Mayors of Atlanta)
    Winn ran a successful campaign against James G. Woodward for Atlanta mayor. Winn served one term as mayor of Atlanta from 1911 to 1913 and was considered...
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    Keisha Lance Bottoms (category Atlanta City Council members)
    born January 18, 1970) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 60th mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, from 2018 to 2022. She was elected mayor...
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  • William Butt (category Mayors of Atlanta)
    William Moore Butt (c. 1805–1888) was a politician in Georgia. Butt arrived in Atlanta in 1851 from Campbell County, Georgia, where he had been an Inferior...
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    William Hemphill (category Mayors of Atlanta)
    1842 – August 17, 1902) was an American businessman and politician who served as Mayor of Atlanta from 1891 to 1893. Hemphill was born on May 5, 1842, in...
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    Asa Griggs Candler (category Mayors of Atlanta)
    business tycoon and politician who in 1888 purchased the Coca-Cola recipe for $238.98 from chemist John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. Candler founded...
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    Luther Glenn (category Mayors of Atlanta)
    a prominent Georgia lawyer, politician, Confederate officer during the American Civil War, and antebellum Mayor of Atlanta. He attended the University...
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    Porter King (category Mayors of Atlanta)
    October 24, 1901) was an American attorney and politician who is known primarily for having been Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1895–1897. Born in Marion, Alabama...
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