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View of a crowd watching the results of the Atlanta municipal election, including (from left to right) John Evans, the director of the DeKalb County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); Georgia State Senator Horace Ward; Atlanta City Councilman James Howard; and unidentified individuals, on election night in Atlanta, Georgia.Horace T. Ward (b. 1927) was an Atlanta attorney who was a partner in the law firm of Hollowell, Ward, Moore and Alexander in the early 1960s. He later served as a Georgia State Senator from 1965 to 1974. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter appointed him to a federal judgeship on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Ward was the first African American appointed to the federal bench in Georgia.

Record Contributed By

Atlanta History Center

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia