John Thomas Glenn

John Thomas Glenn (April 21, 1844  March 14, 1899)[1] was the 31st Mayor of Atlanta from 1889 to 1891, and the son of another Atlanta mayor, Luther Glenn, and like his father an attorney at law.

At the beginning of the American Civil War he was attending the University of Georgia where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree just before the institution was shut down in September 1863. He then served as a captain in the Confederate army.

After the war, on April 23, 1873, he married Helen Augusta Garrard (1850–1924) of Columbus, Georgia, where her father William Waters Garrard (1818  1866) practiced law. They had four children who lived to adulthood: Isa Garteray Urquhart Glenn (1874  1951), a novelist and contemporary of Ellen Glasgow; Garrard Glenn (1878  1949), noted attorney in New York City and subsequently professor of law at The University of Virginia; Helen Mildred Lewis Glenn (1885  1971), who married Theodore Gordon Ellyson of Richmond, Virginia, the first Naval aviator; and William Louis Glenn (1887–1950), an attorney in New York City.

Glenn practiced law in Atlanta, served as Atlanta's mayor, and died less than a decade later. Money from his estate was used to develop the Glenn Building at Spring St and Marietta which was commissioned by the George Fuller Company to coincide with the Spring Street Viaduct which they were building at the time. It was completed in 1923 and named for him.

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Preceded by
John Tyler Cooper
Mayor of Atlanta
January 1889  January 1891
Succeeded by
William Hemphill


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