James E. Williams (mayor)
- James E. Williams (mayor)
James Etheldred Williams (
January 16 ,1826 –April 10 ,1900 ) was an American politician who served as a two-termantebellum mayor ofAtlanta, Georgia , during Reconstruction.Born in
Grainger County, Tennessee , the second of ten children, he began working in Knoxville in the post office and, with his cousins, operated a line ofsteamboat s on theTennessee River from that city toDecatur, Alabama .He moved to Atlanta in October 1851, and with his
Tennessee connections was able to set up a prosperous warehousing business. He built a larger warehouse on Decatur Street in Atlanta with an upper floor that was used as the popular theater of the time, the Atheneum. He ran both until their destruction in 1864 during the burning of Atlanta in the Civil War. Williams was not physically fit for active service during the Civil War. but after his warehouse was destroyed, he became a fireman underCaptain Samuel B. Sherwood .Politically, he was "Always a Democrat, strongly opposed to Whiggery, Know-Nothingism and Abolitionism"1 and was a staunch
secession ist.He served on the Atlanta city council before and after the war, and served as two terms as mayor (the second was extended to 1868 by order of the commandant of the post of Atlanta, Major General John Pope).He then began independent trading, but retired from active business in 1880.
Notes
Note 1: "Pioneers History of Atlanta" (1901)
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