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Government Of Atlanta
The city government of Atlanta, Georgia, United States, is composed of a mayor and a body of one councilman from each of 12 districts, a City Council President, and 3 other at-large councilmen: *Post 1 representing districts 1–4 *Post 2 representing districts 5–8 *Post 3 representing districts 9–12 The entire slate is elected for four-year terms in off-year elections (2001, 2005, 2009, etc.). History In 1954, Atlanta’s ward system was changed from a bicameral body of councilmen representing Wards and three citywide (at-large) aldermen to a system of six citywide aldermen with a Vice-Mayor who served as the president of the Board of Aldermen. This eliminated the strength of the wards. In 1973 a new charter was passed which shifted the city to a district system and took effect at the start of 1974. The chief architect of that charter was Grace Towns Hamilton with the purpose to more equitably represent the changing racial composure of the city and coincided with the c ...
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ATL City Emblem
ATL may refer to: Places * Atlanta, the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia ** Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (IATA airport code) ** Peachtree station (Amtrak station code) * Attleborough railway station, in Norfolk, England (National Rail code) Media * ''ATL'' (film), a 2006 film set in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States * Across the Line (radio show), a BBC Northern Ireland music brand * ATL (band), an R&B boy band * Above the Law (group), a Los Angeles–based rap group * All Time Low, a pop punk band from Lutherville-Timonium, Maryland * ''Among the Living'', an album by heavy metal band Anthrax Technology * Advanced Tactical Laser, a US military program to mount a laser weapon on an aircraft for use against ground targets * Americans for Technology Leadership, an organization that advocates limited government regulation of technology * Active Template Library, from Microsoft * ATLAS Transformation Language, a QVT model ...
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Local Government In The United States
Most U.S. states and territories have at least two tiers of local government: County (United States), counties and municipality, municipalities. Louisiana uses the term List of parishes in Louisiana, parish and Alaska uses the term List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska, borough for what the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau terms county equivalents in those states. Civil townships or towns are used as subdivisions of a county in 20 states, mostly in the Northeast and Midwest. Depending on the state, local governments may operate under their own charters or under general law, or a state may have a mix of chartered and general-law local governments. Generally, in a state having both chartered and general-law local governments, the chartered local governments have more local autonomy and home rule. Municipalities are typically subordinate to a county government, with some exceptions. Certain cities, for example, have consolidated with their county government as ...
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Atlanta
Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georgia, Fulton County and extends into neighboring DeKalb County, Georgia, DeKalb County. With a population of 520,070 (2024 estimate) living within the city limits, Atlanta is the eighth most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast and List of United States cities by population, 36th most populous city in the United States according to the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census. Atlanta is classified as a Globalization and World Cities Research Network#Beta +, Beta + global city and is the principal city of the much larger Atlanta metropolitan area, the core of which includes Cobb County, Georgia, Cobb, Clayton County, Georgia, Clayton and Gwinnett County, Georgia, Gwinnett counties, in addition to Fulton and DeKalb. ...
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Atlanta City Council
The Atlanta City Council (formerly the Atlanta Board of Aldermen until 1974) is the main municipal legislative body for the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It consists of 16 members: the council president, twelve members elected from districts within the city, and three members representing at-large posts. The city council is the legislative branch of the Atlanta city government. History Atlanta's first city charter dated to 1874. The Board of Aldermen consisted of 18 members and each alderman was elected citywide. Since its founding in 1847, Atlanta was divided into wards. On December7, 1870, William Finch and George Graham became the first black men to be elected to the Atlanta Board of Aldermen. Graham represented the Third Ward, and Finch represented the Fourth Ward. No other black people were elected to the city council until Q. V. Williamson in 1965. In 1965, Louise Watley became the first black woman to run for the board of aldermen. The first woman to ser ...
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Atlanta Annexations
From its incorporation in 1847, the municipal boundaries of Atlanta, Georgia, United States, were extended repeatedly from a small area around its railroad station to today's city covering . Prior to 1954, Atlanta was divided into political divisions called wards. The number of wards were increased as the city grew. List of annexations Annexations by year 1847 City is incorporated — city limits are a radius from the zero mile marker of the Western & Atlantic Railroad. City covers , . 1854 The 1848 charter only specified election of six citywide councilmembers, but on January 9, 1854, an ordinance was adopted that divided the town into five wards and two councilmen from each ward would be elected to coincide with the completion of the first official city hall. The next election with the new rules on January 15, 1855, decided those first Ward bosses who would serve with the short-term mayor, Allison Nelson. The boundaries were as follows: *First (yellow): all land we ...
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Grace Towns Hamilton
Grace Towns Hamilton (February 10, 1907 – June 17, 1992) was an American politician who was the first African-American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly. As executive director of the Atlanta Urban League from 1943 to 1960, Hamilton was involved in issues of housing, health care, schools and voter registration within the black community. She was 1964 co-founder of the bi-racial Partners for Progress to help government and the private sector effect compliance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In 1973, Hamilton became a principal architect for the revision of the Atlanta City Charter. She was advisor to the United States Civil Rights Commission from 1985 to 1987. Early life and background Grace Towns was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on February 10, 1907, to community activist parents George Alexander Towns Sr. and Nellie McNair Towns. She was the second of five children. Her sister Helen had died in 1905. Grace was followed by siblings George Jr. in 1909, Myron in 191 ...
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Maynard Jackson
Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr. (March 23, 1938 – June 23, 2003) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 52nd mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, from 1974 to 1982, and again as the city's 54th mayor from 1990 to 1994. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American mayor of Atlanta and of any major city in the South; his three terms made him the second longest-serving mayor in the city's history, after six-term mayor William B. Hartsfield. He is notable also for public works projects, primarily the new Maynard H. Jackson International terminal at the Atlanta airport, and for greatly increasing minority business participation in the city. After his death, the William B. Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport was renamed Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport to honor his service to the expansion of the airport, the city and its people. Family history, background and personal life Jackson was born into a family that valued education a ...
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Capital Terminus Collective
The Capital Terminus Collective (CTC) was an anarchist group based in Atlanta, Georgia with sympathetic or contributing members throughout that state. It was affiliated with NEFAC and shared some members with the Atlanta group of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) . One of its members was a fighter in the anarchist Durruti Column during the Spanish Civil War. The group engaged in various political activities including pamphleting, demonstrating against groups such as The 21st Century Paul Revere Ride and Hammerskins, protesting war, and helping to organize public housing tenants. Birth It was the idea of a few Atlanta attendees of the Million Worker March in 2004 to create an anarchist collective in Atlanta, and early in 2005, a few locals began holding study groups on anarchism and political theory. Apart from the study groups, the collective began organizing to promote the idea of a Southeast anarchist-communist federation, much like that of NEFAC, or FAI of Ibe ...
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Government Of Georgia (U
Government of Georgia may refer to: * Government of Georgia (country), an executive council of government ministers in the sovereign nation of Georgia, headed by the Prime Minister * Government of Georgia (U.S. state), the government of the state of Georgia, in the United States {{disambig ...
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Invest Atlanta
Invest Atlanta is the City of Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georg ...'s Development Authority. It is also known by its previous name, the Atlanta Development Authority. Invest Atlanta consists of the Urban Residential Finance Authority, Downtown Development Authority and the Atlanta Economic Renaissance Corporation, along with the subsidiary, Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. It is the official economic development authorityfor the City of Atlanta, and describes its mission as "to strengthen Atlanta’s economy and global competitiveness in order to create increased opportunity and prosperity for the people of Atlanta." Invest Atlanta is Governed by a nine-member board of directors, chaired by the Mayor of Atlanta, and states that it "creates programs and initiatives foc ...
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Atlanta Housing Authority
The Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) is an agency that provides affordable housing for low-income families in Atlanta. Today, the AHA is the largest housing agency in Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia and one of the largest in the United States, serving approximately 50,000 people. The AHA was founded in 1938, taking over from the Public Works Administration (PWA). Due to the lobbying of Charles Forrest Palmer, Charles Palmer, an Atlantan real estate developer, Atlanta had been the site of Techwood Homes, the first Public housing in the United States, public housing project in the country in 1936. Early public housing projects such as Techwood and its sister project, University Homes, were built for working-class families on the sites of former Slum, slums. Charles Palmer became the AHA's first chairperson, and under him and his successors, the agency continued to Slum clearance in the United States, clear slums and build public housing complexes. The first phase of construction lasted ...
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