Isaac Newton Ragsdale (1859–1937) came to Atlanta in 1880 from Dallas, Georgia. He lived for many years in Oakland City and served as mayor there in 1908 before it was annexed into Atlanta. He was in the livestock business and from 1925 to 1926 he served as a Fulton County Commissioner. His time as its mayor came during a 1929 change to the city charter giving mayors a four year term which he was the first to serve. In 1929, the Atlanta graft ring scandal broke and Ragsdale did not run for re-election.
| Preceded by Walter Sims |
Mayor of Atlanta 1927–1931 |
Succeeded by James L. Key |
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| Name | Ragsdale, Isaac Newton |
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| Short description | American politician |
| Date of birth | 1859 |
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| Date of death | 1937 |
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“No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence it follows that space is an effect arising from the first existence of being, because when any being is postulated, space is postulated.”
—Isaac Newton (1642–1727)
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—Bible: Hebrew Jacob, in Genesis, 27:11.
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—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)