Isaac Newton Ragsdale

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Mayor Ragsdale (left) poses with Charles Lindbergh (center) and Georgia Governor L. G. Hardman (right) at Candler Field on October 11, 1927

Isaac Newton Ragsdale (1859–1937) was mayor of Atlanta from 1927 to 1931. He moved to Atlanta in 1880 from Dallas, Georgia. He lived for many years in Oakland City and served as mayor there in 1908 before it was annexed into Atlanta. He was in the livestock business and from 1925 to 1926 he served as a Fulton County Commissioner. His time as its mayor came during a 1929 change to the city charter giving mayors a four-year term which he was the first to serve. In 1929, the Atlanta graft ring scandal broke, and Ragsdale did not run for re-election in 1931. He died in 1937.

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Preceded by Walter Sims	Mayor of Atlanta 1927–1931	Succeeded by James L. Key

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Formwalt Bomar Buell Norcross Gibbs J. Mims Markham Butt Nelson J. Glen^a Ezzard L. Glenn Ezzard Whitaker Lowe^a J. Calhoun Williams Hulsey Ezzard Hammond James Hammock Spencer Hammock Angier W.L. Calhoun English Goodwin Hillyer Cooper J.T. Glenn Hemphill Goodwin King Collier Woodward L. Mims Howell Woodward Joyner Maddox Winn Woodward Candler Key Sims Ragsdale Key Hartsfield LeCraw Lyle^a Hartsfield Allen Massell Jackson Young Jackson Campbell Franklin Reed Bottoms Dickens ^a — acting Mayor

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