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View of Alderman Marvin Arrington (left), Alderman Henry Dodson (center), and Ethel Mathews (right), founder of the Atlanta Welfare Rights Organization, conferring at a meeting of the Atlanta Board of Aldermen at Atlanta City Hall in downtown Atlanta, Georgia.Marvin S. Arrington (1941- ) is an attorney who was elected to the Atlanta Board of Alderman (a precursor to the present-day City Council) in 1969. A decade later, he became president of the Atlanta City Council and served in that capacity until 1997, when he ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Atlanta. Arrington currently serves as a judge in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia.

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Atlanta History Center

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Digital Library of Georgia