| 词条 | William Lowndes Calhoun |
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| honorific-prefix = | name = William Lowndes Calhoun | honorific-suffix = | image = Wlowndes-calhoun-1891.JPG | caption = | order = | office = Mayor of Atlanta | term_start = January 1879 | term_end = January 1881 | succeeding = | predecessor = Nedom L. Angier | successor = James W. English | constituency = | majority = | birth_date = November 23, 1837 | birth_place = Decatur, Georgia | death_date = November 16, 1908 (aged 69) | death_place = | restingplace = Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta | restingplacecoordinates = | birthname = | nationality = {{flag|United States}} | party = | otherparty = | spouse = Mary Jane Oliver Calhoun | partner = | relations = | children = | residence = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = |nickname = |allegiance = {{flag|Confederate States}} |branch = {{army|CSA}} |serviceyears = 1862-1865 |rank = Colonel |unit ={{flagicon image|Flag_of_Georgia_non_official.svg}} 42nd Georgia Infantry {{flagicon image|Tennessee 1861 proposed.svg}} Army of Tennessee |commands = |battles = American Civil War
|awards = }} William Lowndes Calhoun (November 23, 1837{{spaced ndash}}November 16, 1908)[1] was an American attorney and politician from the state of Georgia who served as the 26th Mayor of Atlanta. A member of the Democratic Party, Calhoun is the first in a string of Democrat mayors that lasts to the present day. BiographyCalhoun was born in Decatur, Georgia, son of fellow Atlanta mayor James Calhoun. The family moved to Atlanta in 1852 and, at the age of sixteen, William began reading law at his father's firm. He passed the bar in 1857. In March 1862, Calhoun enlisted in the Confederate States Army and was commissioned as captain of Company K of the 42nd Georgia Infantry. He served in Knoxville, Tennessee, and then in the Vicksburg Campaign, where he and his regiment were surrendered by John C. Pemberton on July 4, 1863. After being exchanged, Calhoun served in the Atlanta Campaign and was wounded at the Battle of Resaca. After his recovery, he served in the Army of Tennessee under General Hood in Tennessee. Returning to Atlanta after the war, he served in the state legislature from 1872 to 1876 and, following in his late father's footsteps, was elected Mayor of Atlanta in 1879. During his term of service, he inaugurated the city's street paving system. He left his law practice to serve as judge of the Court of Ordinary of Fulton County from 1881 to 1897. Notes1. ^Franklin Garrett Necrology Database - Atlanta History Center }}{{s-start}}{{succession box|title=Mayor of Atlanta |before=Nedom L. Angier|after=James W. English| years=January 1879{{spaced ndash}}January 1881}}{{s-end}}{{Mayors of Atlanta}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Calhoun, William}}{{GeorgiaUS-mayor-stub}}{{AmericanCivilWar-bio-stub}} 10 : Mayors of Atlanta|Members of the Georgia House of Representatives|Confederate States Army officers|People of Georgia (U.S. state) in the American Civil War|American Civil War prisoners of war|1837 births|1908 deaths|Calhoun family|American people of Scotch-Irish descent|American lawyers admitted to the practice of law by reading law |
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