# Albert Staton

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**Albert Hammond Staton** (December 4, 1899 – January 15, 1980) was a [college football](/source/College_football) and [basketball](/source/Basketball) player for the [Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets](/source/Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets) of the [Georgia Institute of Technology](/source/Georgia_Institute_of_Technology),[1] and a [Coca-Cola](/source/Coca-Cola) executive in [Colombia](/source/Colombia).

## Early years

Albert Staton was born on December 4, 1899, in [Attalla, Alabama](/source/Attalla,_Alabama), the son of John Curtis Staton and Bivien Hammond Staton.[2] He attended [Boys High School](/source/Midtown_High_School_(Atlanta)) in [Atlanta](/source/Atlanta), [Georgia](/source/Georgia_(U.S._state)).

## Georgia Tech

Staton graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from Georgia Tech. He was a prominent end for the [Georgia Tech football](/source/Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football) team. He was selected [All-Southern](/source/College_Football_All-Southern_Team) every year he played,[3] and picked for its All-Era Team. Albert played with his brother [John](/source/John_Staton).

In 1921, Staton was captain of the basketball team.[4]

Staton was elected into the Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame in 1963.[5]

Al Staton was the first chief executive officer of the Alumni Association and editor of its magazine.[6] He could also sing, a [baritone](/source/Baritone).[7]

## Coca-Cola

He worked for the [Coca-Cola](/source/Coca-Cola) company in [Colombia](/source/Colombia), founding the company Panamerican Beverages.[8][9] He joined the company in 1924.[10]

## World War II

During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps.[11]

## References

1. ["Albert H. Staton"](https://web.archive.org/web/20171107002757/http://www.gshf.org/pdf_files/inductees/football/albert_h_staton.pdf). Archived from [the original](http://www.gshf.org/pdf_files/inductees/football/albert_h_staton.pdf) on November 7, 2017. Retrieved November 4, 2017.

1. "Georgia, World War I, Statement of Service Cards, 1920-1929," database, *FamilySearch* ([https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPF7-MBJS](https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPF7-MBJS): 9 September 2019), Albert Hamon Staton, 1 Oct 1918; citing Atlanta, DeKalb, Georgia, United States, Military Service, Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta.

1. ["Georgia Tech Has Four on All-Southern Team"](http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=D4EJ51UHMTQwOTk3NTY4OC42OTUzOTk6MToxMzoxMzIuMTk4LjUwLjEz&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=13&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=13&p_docnum=21&p_docref=v2:114CF48AE24B9638@EANX-117ECE2B64E18F10@2423402-117ECE2E09804428@20-117ECE4B4D0B4778@Georgia%20Tech%20Has%20Four%20on%20All%20-%20Southern%20Team%20Bomar%2C%20Vanderbilt%2C%20Barron%2C%20Yellow-Jacket%20Are%20Universal%20Selections). *Miami Herald*. December 13, 1922.

1. ["Staton Elected"](https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/26926669/). *The Atlanta Constitution*. March 20, 1920. p. 14.

1. ["Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160807093222/http://www.ramblinwreck.com/extras/local/halloffame.html). Archived from [the original](http://www.ramblinwreck.com/extras/local/halloffame.html) on 2016-08-07. Retrieved 2014-11-28.

1. ["75 Years Ago"](http://issuu.com/gtalumni/docs/2007_84_1/71). *Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine*. **84** (1): 69. 2007.

1. [*Southern Telephone News*](https://books.google.com/books?id=ekJEAQAAMAAJ). Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company, Incorporated. 1921.

1. [*Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation*](https://books.google.com/books?id=gviPDwAAQBAJ). Univ of California Press. 28 May 2019. ISBN 9780520970946.

1. Parkinson, Charles (March 8, 2012). ["New Colombian entrant on Forbes rich list"](https://colombiareports.com/new-colombian-entrant-on-forbes-rich-list/)

1. Ciafone, Amanda (2018). "Selling Local Modernization through the Global Corporation: Coca-Cola Bottling in Colombia, 1927-1944". *Historia y Sociedad*. '***(34): 41–75. [doi:10.15446/HYS.N34.65507](https://doi.org/10.15446/HYS.N34.65507). [S2CID 158980469](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:158980469)***

1. Staton, Inge & Villa, Ofelia Luz de (2015). [*The Unknown Legacy of Albert H. Staton*](https://books.google.com/books?id=wL3LoQEACAAJ). White Poppy Press. ISBN 9780990570905.

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