Dennis Hammond
This article does not cite any sources. (December 2009) |
Dennis Fletcher Hammond (December 15, 1819 – October 31, 1891) was born in the Edgefield District of South Carolina. He moved to Georgia where he was a lawyer and, from 1855 to 1861, judge in the superior court .
In Atlanta after the American Civil War, he was politically influenced by William Markham and became a Radical Republican wanting Blacks to have the right to vote.
When Markham refused to run for mayor, Hammond did and was able to briefly unite working-class whites to win the office. This was the last-gasp of Republican power in Reconstruction-era Atlanta.
After serving one term as mayor, he moved to Orlando, Florida in 1880 where he died a decade later.
Categories:
- 1819 births
- 1891 deaths
- Mayors of Atlanta
- 19th-century American politicians
- Georgia (U.S. state) mayor stubs