William Moore Butt (c. 1805–1888) was a politician in Georgia.
William Butt | |
Term Start: | 1854 |
Term End: | 1855 |
Birth Date: | c. 1805 |
Death Date: | 1888 |
Party: | Republican |
Office: | Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia |
Butt arrived in Atlanta in 1851 from Campbell County, Georgia, where he had been an Inferior Court judge, and became a merchant.[1] He served as a councilman in 1853.[1] The next year, he was elected the eighth mayor.[2]