Dennis Hammond
18th Mayor of Atlanta
In office
1871โ€“1872
Preceded byWilliam Ezzard
Succeeded byJohn H. James
Personal details
Born
Dennis Fletcher Hammond

(1819-12-15)December 15, 1819
Edgefield County, South Carolina, U.S.
DiedOctober 31, 1891(1891-10-31) (aged 71)
Orlando, Florida, U.S.
Political partyRepublican

Dennis Fletcher Hammond (December 15, 1819 โ€“ October 31, 1891) was born in the Edgefield District of South Carolina. He moved to Georgia where he was a lawyer and, from 1855 to 1861, judge in the superior court Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit.

In Atlanta after the American Civil War, he was politically influenced by William Markham and became a Radical Republican supporting black suffrage.

When Markham refused to run for mayor, Hammond did and was able to briefly unite working-class whites to win the office. This was the last-gasp of Republican power in Reconstruction-era Atlanta.

After serving one term as mayor, he moved to Orlando, Florida in 1880 where he died a decade later.


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