Livingston Mims

Livingston Mims (1833 – March 4, 1906)[1] was an American politician who served as the 37th mayor of Atlanta, Georgia during the early 20th century.

Born in Edgefield, South Carolina, Mims later moved to Mississippi and represented Hinds County in the state legislature from 1859 to 1861.

He was the eldest child of Henry Mims and Susan Burr Read of Edgefield, South Carolina.

On October 9, 1901 he rode in the inaugural streetcar over the Peachtree-Whitehall viaduct – before then it was a dangerous at-grade crossing of many busy railroad tracks.

His two-story residence was on the northeast corner of Peachtree St and Ponce de Leon Avenue (current location of the Georgian Terrace Hotel).