William Butt

William Moore Butt (1805–1888) was a politician in Georgia.

For the missing person, see Cheltenham torso mystery.

Butt arrived in Atlanta in 1851 from Campbell County, Georgia, where he had been an Inferior Court judge, and became a merchant.[1] He served as a councilman in 1853.[1] The next year he was elected the eighth mayor.[2]

References
  1. Garrett (1969) p.353
  2. Garrett (1969) p.372
  • Franklin Miller Garrett (1969). Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 0-8203-3127-9.
Preceded by
William Markham		 Mayor of Atlanta
1854–1855		 Succeeded by
Allison Nelson


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