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Ron Brill. Ronald M. Brill is a former American retail executive and is a co-founder of the Home Depot. He worked with Arthur Blank and Bernard Marcus at Handy Dan Home Improvement and was fired from that company at the same time they were. Brill was Home Depot's first official employee. He worked with Home Depot for over 20 years, serving as ...
List. See the mayors of Atlanta category for an alphabetical list. Mayor Asa Griggs Candler (1917–1919). Candler incorporated The Coca-Cola Company in 1892. Mayor William B. Hartsfield (1937–1941; 1942–62). He was the longest serving Atlanta Mayor, running the city politics for ca. 30 years. Mayor Kasim Reed (2010–2018)
In 1981, after being urged by a number of people, including Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., Democratic Congressman Andrew Young ran for mayor of Atlanta. He was elected later that year with 55% of the vote, succeeding Maynard Jackson. As mayor of Atlanta, he brought in $70 billion of new private investment.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 September 2024. American multinational home improvement supplies retailing company The Home Depot, Inc. An aerial view of a Home Depot in Onalaska, Wisconsin Company type Public Traded as NYSE: HD DJIA component S&P 100 component S&P 500 component Industry Retail (home improvement) Founded February 6 ...
United States. Branch/service. United States Air Force. Samuel A. Massell Jr. (August 26, 1927 – March 13, 2022) was an American businessman and politician who served from 1970 to 1974 as the 53rd mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. He was the first Jewish mayor in the city's history and the most recent non-black mayor of Atlanta.
Ronald Reagan, President of the U.S.; Governor of California 1967–68; John V. Tunney, U.S. Congressman; U.S. Senator 1966–67; Jonathan B. Bingham, U.S. Congressman 1966–67; Richard C. Lee, Mayor of New Haven 1966–67; Robert Smylie, Governor of Idaho 1966–67; Lt. General Sir John Bago Glubb 1966–67; Robert Wagner, Mayor of New York ...
The New York Times reported that when Mayor James G. Woodward, a Democrat, was asked as to the measures taken to prevent a race riot, he replied: The best way to prevent a race riot depends entirely upon the cause. If your inquiry has anything to do with the present situation in Atlanta then I would say the only remedy is to remove the cause.
First African American to be appointed mayor of Gainesville, Georgia: John W. Morrow Jr. [58] [59] First African-American to be appointed mayor of Lynwood, California: Robert Henning [60] First African American to be elected mayor of Mount Vernon, New York, and first African American elected mayor in New York: Ronald Blackwood [61]