Mims, Livingston, 1833-1906

Livingston Mims was a Confederate officer and later mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. Born in 1833 in Edgefield, South Carolina, Mims moved as a child with his family to Mississippi. He entered politics as a young man, winning a seat in the Mississippi legislature in 1859. He served until 1861, then volunteered for service in the Confederate army after Mississippi’s secession. Mims served as a staff officer under Confederate general John C. Pemberton and then General Joseph E. Johnston, and became the chief quartermaster of the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana.

Following the Civil War, Mims served as a southern manager of the New York Life Insurance Company, remained active in social and business circles among notable public officials, and was elected mayor of Atlanta in 1900. He passed away after a brief illness in on March 4, 1906. He was married three times and had one surviving child at the time of his death. He is buried in Westview Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. (Wikipedia; FindaGrave; The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, GA, March 6, 1906)