John Houston Marshall (June 18, 1904 – November 7, 1977) was a college football player and

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, with various business interests, including trucking and insurance.

Georgia Tech

Johnny Marshall was a prominent

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for William Alexander's Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football teams. He was selected All-Southern in 1926. The yearbook in 1925 remarked '"Johnnie" could have made " All-American" had he caught that pass in the

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game."

Personal life

Marshall was from

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, where he returned after graduation from Georgia Tech, founding the John Marshall Agency Inc. He married Catherine M. Beckham. She was the daughter of Charlotte W. Mahone, the first woman to serve as

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; and

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Robert H. Beckham, a former

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who served in the

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. His only child, Carlotta Marshall, worked as a photographer in New York where she formed a close friendship with

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Georgia Tech

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