Atlanta's 4th City Council district is one of the twelve geographic districts in the Atlanta City Council. It is currently represented by Jason Dozier, who was elected in 2022 after defeating incumbent Cleta Winslow.

The district was created in 1973 after a new city charter was passed, which replaced the former at-large six-member Board of Aldermen with a 15-member City Council of 12 districts and 6 (later 3) at-large posts. A previous Third Ward existed in various forms from 1854 to 1954.

History Atlanta's Fourth Ward encompassed mainly what is now called the Old Fourth Ward.

List of aldermen (1854-1954)

1874

A new city charter increased the radius of the city from one to one and a half miles, reduced the number of wards back to five and created a bicameral council of two councilmen from each ward and a second body of three at-large aldermen was established.

The new Fourth ward layout was from Pryor and tracks east on Georgia RR to city limits then north west to West Peachtree and south to origin. Two councilmen would be elected from each ward each year.

John H. Flynn1874Julius C. Watkins1875John S. Garmany

In late 1875, an ordinance passed where each year one councilman would be elected from each ward for a two-year term. The first year, 1876 just had one citywide alderman and a single councilman from each ward and they would be fully staffed two years later.

Even year electionsYearOdd year electionsSamuel Hape1876none1877Charles K. MaddoxJohn H. Flynn18781879William H. PattersonThomas J. Boyd18801881Jack W. JohnsonWilliam H. Howell1882

1883

On November 5, 1883, a Sixth Ward (beige) was carved out of the Fourth and Fifth Wards. The Fourth lost the entire Peachtree St corridor leaving a district of working class citizens: Germans and Jews to the north and Blacks to the south. Before 1910, the ward had become almost exclusively Black centered on Sweet Auburn and a large portion of it was destroyed in the Great Atlanta fire of 1917.

Even year electionsYearOdd year electionsWilliam H. Howell1883Benjamin F. LongleyM. Micklebery18841885Edwin F. MayAllison L. Greene18861887Levi B. NelsonSampson A. Morris18881889J.S. McLendonJ.C. Hendrix18901891C.E. MurpheyWilliam P. Hill18921893W.R. DimmockWilliam J. Campbell18941895John A. MillerSampson A. Morris18961897George P. HowardWilliam S. Thomson18981899John S. ParksWilliam M. Terry19001901Henry F. GarrettJ. Frank Beck19021903McDonald M. TurnerAlexander C. Bruce19041905Frank O. FosterEdgar E. Pomeroy19061907Benjamin E. Pearce

1935

Aldermen

Lee Evans Milton G. Farris

Councilmembers

John T. Marler Roy Bell

1954

Douglas Wood Guy R. Dunn

List of councilmembers (1974present)

James Bond (19741986) Thomas Cuffie (19861994) Cleta Winslow (19942022) Jason Dozier (2022present)

See also Atlanta ward system

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