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[ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 10/20/03 ]
City Council OKs new airport name
The Associated Press
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City Council members voted today to rename Atlanta's sprawling Hartsfield International Airport, adding former Mayor Maynard Jackson's name to its title.
Hartsfield International Airport will become Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport under a compromise put forward by Mayor Shirley Franklin and approved by the City Council members.
The council members discussed the proposal for about two hours before voting 12 to two in favor of the change.
The measure needed eight votes to pass. Council members Anne Fauver and Clair Muller voted against the renaming.
Much of the opposition leading up to the vote came from the heirs of current airport namesake William B. Hartsfield, the city's longest-serving mayor, who as a councilman in the 1920s was instrumental in selecting a blackberry patch south of town as the original site for the airport.
The effort to put Jackson's name on the airport began almost immediately after his death in June.
Atlanta airport name change approved
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daniel18
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Posted 20 October 2003 - 07:38 PM
Don't you think we've had enough with "Jackson" place names here in the South?
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Posted 20 October 2003 - 07:54 PM
Sounds okay to me. Its great they were able to come to a quick compromise instead of letting it turn into a mud-slinging, hate filled debate.
