Luther A. Alverson oral history interview, 1990 Oct. 11, Oct. 22.

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Luther A. Alverson oral history interview, 1990 Oct. 11, Oct. 22.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477610

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Luther A. Alverson on October 11, 1990 in which he discusses his family background; education; early occupations; law school; Hooper and Miller; military service; entry into politics; consolidation of Buckhead and Atlanta; Everett Millican; "Four Horsemen"; debates over total consolidation legislation; Elbert Tuttle; Richard Rich; William B. Hartsfield; DeKalb delegation members Pierre Howard and Richard Bell; recruiting vote for consolidation referendum; campaign versus Hamilton Douglas for Superior Court; 1948 campaign for legislature versus Frank Morrison; three-governor controversy; interposition as political issue; role of black vote in Georgia; urban renewal; Alverson's Congressional ambitions; Charles Weltner; Milledgeville Hospital; Jack Nelson; role in creating Mental Health Commission; and the Jekyll Island Authority.

3 audiotape ; cassette.

Georgia State University

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SNAC Resource ID: 7404310

Georgia State University

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Georgia. General Assembly. House of Representatives

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Milledgeville State Hospital (Milledgeville, Ga.)

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Alverson, Luther A., 1907-

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Hartsfield, William Berry

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William Berry Hartsfield (1890-1971) served as Mayor of Atlanta 1937-1962. He served on the Atlanta City Council from 1923-1928 and represented Fulton County in the state legislature. Hartsfield was Mayor of Atlanta in 1939 when the city hosted the premiere of Gone With the Wind, the movie based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell (Marsh). The film Gone With the Wind, based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell (Marsh), premiered in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 15, 1939. From the descript...

Nelson, Jack, 1895-

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Weltner, Charles Longstreet

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Charles Weltner, U.S. House of Representatives (1963-1967), Fulton County Superior Court Judge (1963-1967), and Associate Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court (1981-1991). From the description of Charles Longstreet Weltner oral history interviews, 1986 July 9 and 17. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38477735 U.S. representative, lawyer, and judge, of Atlanta, Ga.; b. 1927. From the description of Papers, 1950-1991. (Atlanta History Center). WorldCa...

Millican, Everett, 1897-

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Morrison, Frank

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Tuttle, Elbert P. (Elbert Parr), 1897-1996

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Judge Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897-1996) was a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit from 1954, and served as Chief Judge of that court from 1960 until his 70th birthday in 1967. While he "retired" to Senior Judge status a year later, in 1968, he remained actively involved in Court work until very near his death and sat on cases until 1990. From the description of Elbert P. Tuttle papers, 1917-1995. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122517636 Elbert Parr ...

Howard, Pierre, 1943-

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Larcom, Anne,

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Rich, Richard H., 1901-1975

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Richard H. Rich (December 24, 1901-May 1, 1975), merchant and business executive, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Herman and Rosalind Rich Rosenheim. His father was a shoe manufacturer in Savannah, his mother the daughter of Morris Rich, founder of Rich's department stores in Atlanta. Richard Rich legally changed his name from Rosenheim to Rich in 1920 at the urging of his grandfather. On December 29, 1930, he married Virginia Lazarus of New Orleans, Louisiana. They had three children, ...