Atlanta's 4th City Council district

Atlanta's4th City Council district is one of the twelve geographic districts in the Atlanta City Council. It is currently represented by Jason Dozier, who was elected in 2022 after defeating incumbent Cleta Winslow.

The district was created in 1973 after a new city charter was passed, which replaced the former at-large six-member Board of Aldermen with a 15-member City Council of 12 districts and 6 (later 3) at-large posts. A previous Third Ward existed in various forms from 1854 to 1954.

History

Atlanta's Fourth Ward encompassed mainly what is now called the Old Fourth Ward.

List of aldermen (1854-1954)

1874

Fourth Ward in blue (1874 to 1883)

A new city charter increased the radius of the city from one to one and a half miles, reduced the number of wards back to five and created a bicameral council of two councilmen from each ward and a second body of three at-large aldermen was established.

The new Fourth ward layout was from Pryor and tracks east on Georgia RR to city limits then north west to West Peachtree and south to origin. Two councilmen would be elected from each ward each year.

John H. Flynn	1874	Julius C. Watkins
	1875	John S. Garmany

In late 1875, an ordinance passed where each year one councilman would be elected from each ward for a two-year term. The first year, 1876 just had one citywide alderman and a single councilman from each ward and they would be fully staffed two years later.

Even year elections	Year	Odd year elections
Dr. Samuel Hape	1876	none
	1877	Charles K. Maddox
John H. Flynn	1878
	1879	William H. Patterson
Thomas J. Boyd	1880
	1881	Jack W. Johnson
William H. Howell	1882

1883

Fourth Ward in blue (1883 to 1894)

On November 5, 1883, a Sixth Ward (beige) was carved out of the Fourth and Fifth Wards. The Fourth lost the entire Peachtree St corridor leaving a district of working class citizens: Germans and Jews to the north and Blacks to the south. Before 1910, the ward had become almost exclusively Black centered on Sweet Auburn and a large portion of it was destroyed in the Great Atlanta fire of 1917.

Even year elections	Year	Odd year elections
William H. Howell	1883	Benjamin F. Longley
M. Micklebery	1884
	1885	Edwin F. May
Allison L. Greene	1886
	1887	Levi B. Nelson
Sampson A. Morris	1888
	1889	J.S. McLendon
J.C. Hendrix	1890
	1891	C.E. Murphey
William P. Hill	1892
	1893	W.R. Dimmock
William J. Campbell	1894
	1895	John A. Miller
Sampson A. Morris	1896
	1897	George P. Howard
William S. Thomson	1898
	1899	John S. Parks
William M. Terry	1900
	1901	Henry F. Garrett
J. Frank Beck	1902
	1903	McDonald M. Turner
Alexander C. Bruce	1904
	1905	Frank O. Foster
Edgar E. Pomeroy	1906
	1907	Dr. Benjamin E. Pearce

1935

Aldermen

• Lee Evans ^[1]
• Milton G. Farris ^[2]

Councilmembers

• John T. Marler
• Roy Bell ^[3]

1954

• Douglas Wood
• Guy R. Dunn

List of councilmembers (1974-present)

• James Bond (1974-1986)
• Thomas Cuffie (1986-1994)
• Cleta Winslow (1994-2022)
• Jason Dozier (2022-present)

See also

• Atlanta ward system

References

• Garrett, Franklin Miller (1969). Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events. Georgia: University of Georgia Press. ISBN   0-8203-0263-5.

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2. Georgia, Digital Library of. "The bulletin of the Catholic Laymen's Association of Georgia. (Augusta, Ga.) 1920-1957, December 20, 1952, Image 39".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
3. Georgia, Digital Library of. "The bulletin of the Catholic Laymen's Association of Georgia. (Augusta, Ga.) 1920-1957, August 27, 1949, Image 24".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)