William Butt

For the missing person, see Cheltenham torso mystery.

William M. 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 2 Garrett (1969) p.353
↑ 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

Mayors of Atlanta

Formwalt Bomar Buell Norcross Gibbs Mims Markham Butt Nelson J. Glen Ezzard L. Glenn Ezzard Whitaker Lowe J. Calhoun Williams Hulsey Ezzard Hammond James Hammock Spencer Hammock Angier W.L. Calhoun English Goodwin Hillyer Cooper J.T. Glenn Hemphill Goodwin King Collier Woodward Mims Howell Woodward Joyner Maddox Winn Woodward Candler Key Sims Ragsdale Key Hartsfield LeCraw Lyle Hartsfield Allen Massell Jackson Young Jackson Campbell Franklin Reed acting Mayors in italics

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