Isaac Newton Ragsdale (1859–1937) came to
Atlanta
Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...
in 1880 from
Dallas, Georgia
Dallas is a city in, and the county seat of, Paulding County, Georgia, United States. The estimated population, as of 2010, was 11,544. Dallas is a northwestern exurb of Atlanta, located approximately from the downtown area. It was named for G ...
. He lived for many years in
Oakland City and served as mayor there in 1908 before it was annexed into Atlanta. He was in the
livestock
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business and from 1925 to 1926 he served as a
Fulton County Fulton County is the name of eight counties in the United States of America. Most are named for Robert Fulton, inventor of the first practical steamboat:
*Fulton County, Arkansas, named after Governor William Savin Fulton
*Fulton County, Georgia
*F ...
Commissioner. His time as its mayor came during a 1929 change to the
city charter
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Traditionally the granting of a charter ...
giving mayors a four-year term which he was the first to serve. In 1929, the
Atlanta graft ring scandal broke and Ragsdale did not run for re-election.
1859 births
1937 deaths
Fulton County commissioners
Mayors of Atlanta
People from Dallas, Georgia
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