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List of mayors of Athens, Georgia

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The following is a list of mayors of the city of Athens, Georgia, USA.

City Hall building in Athens, Georgia, USA, in 2022

Prior to 1991

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  • Henry Carlton Tuck, 1892-1893[1][2]
  • J.J. Crittenden McMahan, ca.1897[3][1]
  • Edward Thomas Brown[4]
  • Edward I. Smith, ca.1900[5]
  • William F. Dorsey, ca.1906-1909[6]
  • Hugh Jackson Rowe, ca.1912[7][4]
  • Robert O. Arnold, ca.1916[8]
  • Andrew Cobb Erwin, 1918-1922[9]
  • Alonzo Gordon Dudley, 1926-1935, 1938-1939[10][11]
  • T. S. Mell, ca.1937[12]
  • Bob McWhorter, 1940-1947[12]
  • Jack R. Wells, ca.1951-1956[12]
  • Ralph M. Snow, ca.1958-1959[13]
  • Upshaw Bentley, 1977-1980[14]

Since 1991

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In 1990, the governments of Clarke county and the city of Athens merged to form the Athens-Clarke County unified government.[15][16]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ University of Georgia Libraries, Henry Carlton Tuck papers, retrieved 2024-07-10
  2. ^ Who's who in the South, Washington DC: Mayflower Publishing Company, 1927
  3. ^ Athens city directory, 1897 – via Digital Library of Georgia
  4. ^ a b Book of Georgia: A Work for Press Reference, 1920
  5. ^ "Municipal Government of Athens", Athens Daily Banner, 1900-12-14 – via Digital Library of Georgia
  6. ^ Directory, City of Athens, Georgia, 1909
  7. ^ The Georgia annual 1912: a compendium of useful information about Georgia, Atlanta: A.B. Caldwell – via HathiTrust
  8. ^ "Hon. Robert O. Arnold Next Mayor of Athens", Athens Daily Herald, 1915-11-24 – via Digital Library of Georgia
  9. ^ Georgia's Official Register, 1927, State of Georgia Department of Archives and History
  10. ^ "Notable career closes as A.G. Dudley passes", Athens Banner-Herald, 1947-08-04 – via Digital Library of Georgia
  11. ^ "Dudley Park Historical Marker", Historical Marker Database, retrieved 2024-07-11
  12. ^ a b c Lawrence Kestenbaum (ed.), "Mayors and Postmasters of Athens, Georgia", Political Graveyard, retrieved 2024-07-10
  13. ^ "Mayor-elect restates tag proposal", The Red and Black, Athens, Georgia, 1957-10-31 – via Digital Library of Georgia
  14. ^ "Former Athens mayor Upshaw Bentley dies", onlineathens.com, 2013-08-15
  15. ^ "Historical Timeline", accgov.com, Athens-Clarke County Unified Government, retrieved 2024-07-10
  16. ^ "Athens-Clarke County Unification 25th Anniversary", accgov.com, Athens-Clarke County Unified Government, retrieved 2024-07-10
  17. ^ "O'Looney reflects on 8 years as mayor", The Red and Black, Athens, Georgia, 1998-09-28 – via Digital Library of Georgia
  18. ^ "Eldridge new mayor of Athens", The Red and Black, Athens, Georgia, 1998-11-04 – via Digital Library of Georgia
  19. ^ "Athens-Clarke County Mayor and Commission", athensclarkecounty.com, archived from the original on 2000-12-02 – via Wayback Machine
  20. ^ "Mayor", accgov.com, archived from the original on 2019-02-12 – via Wayback Machine
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