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Cicero C. Hammock

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Cicero C. Hammock
20th Mayor of Atlanta
In office
January 1873 – January 1874
Preceded byJohn H. James
Succeeded byS. B. Spencer
22nd Mayor of Atlanta
In office
January 1875 – January 1877
Preceded byS. B. Spencer
Succeeded byNedom L. Angier
Personal details
Born1823
Walton County, Georgia
DiedDecember 15, 1890
Political partyDemocratic Party
Military service
Allegiance Confederate States of America
Branch/service United States Army
 Confederate States Army
RankOfficer
Battles/wars

Cicero C. Hammock (c. 1823 – December 15, 1890)[1] was the 20th and 22nd Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, during the Reconstruction era.

Biography

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Born in Walton County, Hammock served in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War, where he served with another future mayor, Captain Allison Nelson. After the war, he moved to Oglethorpe County, Georgia where he married, but soon after moved to Atlanta.

When the American Civil War began, he entered the Confederate States Army as a commissioned officer.

After the war, he returned to Atlanta and began working as a merchant with the firm Langston, Crane & Hammock and later he worked the real estate trade with a prominent office on Whitehall Street at Five Points.

During his first reconstruction-era term as mayor he inaugurated the city's waterworks system and his second term was the first two-year term after Atlanta adopted a new municipal charter.

He served as president of the city water commission from the mid-1880s until his death.

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Notes

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  1. ^ "Franklin Garrett Necrology Database - Atlanta History Center". 2011-07-07. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
Preceded by Mayor of Atlanta
January 1873 – January 1874
Succeeded by
Preceded by Mayor of Atlanta
January 1875 – January 1877
Succeeded by