| John Staton | |
| Birth Date: | 9 June 1902 |
| Birth Place: | Atlanta, Georgia, US |
| Death Place: | Atlanta, Georgia, US |
| Currentposition: | End |
| School: | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets |
| Highschool: | Boys |
| Class: | 1924 |
| Pastschools: | Georgia Tech (1920 - 1923) |
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John Curtis Staton (June 9, 1902 - September 16, 1990) was a college football player and Coca-Cola executive.[1]
John Curtis Staton was born June 9, 1902, in Atlanta, the son of John Curtis Staton and Bivien Hammond Staton.[2] He attended Boys High School.
Staton was an All-Southern end for William Alexander's Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets of the Georgia Institute of Technology.[3] He played with his brother Albert Staton, and also played basketball, track, and swimming. John was elected to the Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame in 1965.[4] He was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.
Staton then joined Coca-Cola in 1924, becoming vice president before retiring in 1968.[5] It was said it was him who designed the company's first cooler and developed its first fountain dispenser.[6] Prior to being vice president he was export manager, and his career included time spent in several other countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and Mexico.[7] [8]