Luther Judson Glenn (November 26, 1818June 9, 1886) was a prominent

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lawyer, politician,

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officer during the

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, and

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Mayor of Atlanta. He attended the

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where he was a member of the

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and graduated in 1841. He was married to Mildred Lewis Cobb, a younger sister of Generals Howell and Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (Howell Cobb later served as

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). An attorney, Glenn represented Henry County in the

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as a Democrat before arriving in

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in 1851. Six years later, he was elected mayor and served two consecutive one-year terms. He was the first mayor to appoint regular committees in council for the various functions of city governance: Fire, Streets, Finance, and so on. In March 1861, the Southern states that had

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from the Union appointed special commissioners to travel to those other slaveholding Southern states that had yet to secede. Glenn served as the Commissioner from Georgia to the Missouri Secession Convention, publicly reading Georgia's Articles of Secession and trying to persuade Missouri politicians to vote to join Georgia in seceding from the Union. During the Civil War, he served first as the company commander of C Company,

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(Infantry), and subsequently as Lt. Colonel of Cobb's Legion. He finished the war as the

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of the Post of Atlanta. In that position, he surrendered the remaining Confederate troops of Atlanta to Col. Beroth B. Eggleston of the 1st Ohio Cavalry on May 3, 1865. He remained in Atlanta until his death and was buried in Oconee Hill Cemetery in

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. Of his sons, Howell Cobb Glenn, a lawyer, died young in 1890 and John Thomas Glenn, also an attorney, served as Mayor of Atlanta from 1889 to 1891.

References

''History of the University of Georgia'', Thomas Walter Reed, Imprint: Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia, ca. 1949 p.438''Glenn genealogy'', derived from family records, Helen Glenn Court, 2009
{{DEFAULTSORT:Glenn, Luther Judson Members of the Georgia House of Representatives 1818 births 1886 deaths 19th-century mayors of places in Georgia (U.S. state) Mayors of Atlanta Confederate States Army officers University of Georgia alumni People of Georgia (U.S. state) in the American Civil War People from Henry County, Georgia Signers of the Georgia Ordinance of Secession Burials at Oconee Hill Cemetery 19th-century members of the Georgia General Assembly

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