William Butt

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

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
18541855
Succeeded by
Allison Nelson


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