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
- 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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