{{short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Use American English|date=November 2025}} '''William Moore Butt''' (c. 1805–1888) was a politician in Georgia.

{{Infobox officeholder | name = William Butt | image = | state_house = | district = | term_start = 1854 | term_end = 1855 | predecessor = | successor = | birth_date = c. 1805 | birth_place = | death_date = 1888 | death_place = | party = Republican | education = | office = Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia }}

Butt arrived in Atlanta in 1851 from Campbell County, Georgia, where he had been an Inferior Court judge, and became a merchant.<ref name=garrett353>Garrett (1969) p.353</ref> He served as a councilman in 1853.<ref name=garrett353/> The next year, he was elected the eighth mayor.<ref>Garrett (1969) p.372</ref>

==References== {{reflist|2}} * {{cite book | title=Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events | author=Franklin Miller Garrett | publisher=University of Georgia Press | year=1969 | isbn=0-8203-3127-9 }}

{{S-start}} {{Succession box|title=Mayor of Atlanta |before=William Markham |after=Allison Nelson| years=1854&ndash;1855}} {{S-end}}

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