Courtland Winn

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Portrait of Winn from 1913

Courtland Simmons Winn (1863–1940) was an American politician.

He was born in Lawrenceville, Georgia while the American Civil War raged. His father Judge Samuel J. Winn (1837-1919) was then acting Colonel of the 13th regiment of Georgia Cavalry riding with Morgan's Raiders in Northeast Georgia and East Tennessee. His mother Sara Simmons was at home in Lawrenceville looking after her first-born. Both parents were from pioneer Gwinnett County families, Elisha Winn (1777-1842) and Adam Q. Simmons.^[1]

At the age of 21 in 1884, he was elected mayor of Lawrenceville and served two terms after which he moved his family to Atlanta in 1888.

Winn served one term as mayor of Atlanta from 1911 to 1913 and was considered a progressive. During his term he increased teacher's pay, eliminated many garbage dumps and oversaw the building of a garbage incinerator, had a bridge built over the railroad eliminating a dangerous level crossing, opened a fire station in South Atlanta and began the switch from horse-drawn to motor-driven firefighting equipment. Although he was to never enter politics again, Winn was a leading lawyer in the city for over fifty years and served as assistant city attorney for Atlanta.^[2]

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