Dennis Hammond

Dennis 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 Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit.

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.

Preceded by William Ezzard	Mayor of Atlanta 1871–1872	Succeeded by John H. James

Mayors of Atlanta

Formwalt Bomar Buell Norcross Gibbs Mims Markham Butt Nelson J. Glen Ezzard L. Glenn Ezzard Whitaker Lowe J. Calhoun Williams Hulsey Ezzard Hammond James Hammock Spencer Hammock Angier W.L. Calhoun English Goodwin Hillyer Cooper J.T. Glenn Hemphill Goodwin King Collier Woodward Mims Howell Woodward Joyner Maddox Winn Woodward Candler Key Sims Ragsdale Key Hartsfield LeCraw Lyle Hartsfield Allen Massell Jackson Young Jackson Campbell Franklin Reed acting Mayors in italics

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