Cicero C. Hammock (December 15, 1890) was the 20th and 22nd mayor of

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, Georgia, during the

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era.

Biography

Born in Walton County, Hammock served in the

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during the

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, where he served with another future mayor, Captain

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. After the war, he moved to

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where he married, but soon after moved to Atlanta. When the

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began, he entered the

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as a

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. After the war, he returned to Atlanta and began working as a merchant with the firm Langston, Crane & Hammock and later he worked the real estate trade with a prominent office on Whitehall Street at Five Points. During his first reconstruction-era term as mayor he inaugurated the city's waterworks system and his second term was the first two-year term after Atlanta adopted a new

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. He served as president of the city water commission from the mid-1880s until his death.

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Mayors of Atlanta 19th-century mayors of places in Georgia (U.S. state) American military personnel of the Mexican–American War People of Georgia (U.S. state) in the American Civil War Confederate States Army officers 1820s births 1890 deaths {{AmericanCivilWar-bio-stub

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