# William Butt

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{{short description|American politician}}
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'''William Moore Butt''' (c. 1805–1888) was a politician in [Georgia](/source/Georgia_(U.S._state)).

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| name                = William Butt
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| term_start          = 1854
| term_end            = 1855
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| birth_date          = c. 1805
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| death_date          = 1888
| death_place         = 
| party               = [Republican](/source/Republican_Party_(United_States))
| education           = 
| office              = Mayor of [Atlanta, Georgia](/source/Atlanta%2C_Georgia)
}}

Butt arrived in [Atlanta](/source/Atlanta) in 1851 from [Campbell County, Georgia](/source/Campbell_County%2C_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==
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* {{cite book | title=Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events | author=Franklin Miller Garrett | publisher=[University of Georgia Press](/source/University_of_Georgia_Press) | year=1969 | isbn=0-8203-3127-9 }}

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{{Succession box|title=[Mayor of Atlanta](/source/Mayor_of_Atlanta)
|before=[William Markham](/source/William_Markham_(mayor)) |after=[Allison Nelson](/source/Allison_Nelson)| years=1854&ndash;1855}}
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Category:19th-century mayors of places in Georgia (U.S. state)

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