John A. Goodlett was an American politician. He served as the Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 1846 to 1847.
Biography His father was Dr. Adam Gibb Goodlett, a physician, surgeon and planter, and his mother, Charlotte Phanuel Campbell.Archives: Goodlett Biographies His siblings were Michael C. Goodlett, George Washington Goodlett, James Goodlett and William Goodlett. His brother Michael was the husband of Caroline Meriwether Goodlett, who founded the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
He served as Mayor of Nashville from 1846 to 1847.Nashville LibraryWilliam B. Nicholson, Profiles of early Tennessee leaders, 1780-1861, Nicholson, 1977, p. 111 William Henry McRaven, Nashville, Athens of the South, Tennessee Book Company, 1949, p. 272
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