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"The John H. James mansion, later the Georgia Governor's mansion 1870-1923 John H. James (July 14, 1830 – July 14, 1917)Franklin Garrett Necrology Database - Atlanta History Center was an American banker, politician, and businessman who served as the 21st Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, in 1871. James was born in Henry County, Georgia, where he farmed until moving to Atlanta in 1850 to clerk for $10 a month and after three years was making $700 a year.Atlanta Journal, June 16, 1883 After that he went into sales, running auctions of books, jewelry and other valuables throughout the Southern states. During the American Civil War he and his wife travelled to Canada and Nassau, Bahamas, and afterwards they returned to Atlanta where he founded the James Bank. In 1869, he purchased a large city lot that stretched from Peachtree to Spring Street along Cain (today's International Blvd) and built a large mansion. Within a year it was purchased by the state of Georgia to become the Governor's mansion for which purpose it survived until 1923.Garrett, vol II, p. 213 He made over $30,000 on the deal and immediately built his next home on the south end of that same block (where the old Macy's building stands today). He won nearly 100% of the December 1871 mayoral election as a Democrat which put an end to the brief surge of Radical Republican power in the city. He sold his home at Ellis and Peachtree in 1883 to the Capital City Club who used it until their new building on Harris was completed in 1913. References See also *Garrett, Franklin, Atlanta and Its Environs, 1954. Category:1830 births Category:1917 deaths Category:Mayors of Atlanta Category:People from Henry County, Georgia Category:Georgia (U.S. state) Democrats Category:19th- century American politicians "
"Dennis Hammond (December 15, 1819October 31, 1891) was born in the Edgefield District of South Carolina. He moved to Georgia where he was a lawyer and, from 1855 to 1861, judge in the superior court Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit. In Atlanta after the American Civil War, he was politically influenced by William Markham and became a Radical Republican wanting Blacks to have the right to vote. When Markham refused to run for mayor, Hammond did and was able to briefly unite working-class whites to win the office. This was the last-gasp of Republican power in Reconstruction-era Atlanta. After serving one term as mayor, he moved to Orlando, Florida in 1880 where he died a decade later. Category:1819 births Category:1891 deaths Category:Mayors of Atlanta Category:19th-century American politicians "
"The Principality of Taranto was a state in southern Italy created in 1088 for Bohemond I, eldest son of Robert Guiscard, as part of the peace between him and his younger brother Roger Borsa after a dispute over the succession to the Duchy of Apulia. Taranto became the capital of the principality, which covered almost all of the heel of Apulia. During its subsequent 377 years of history, it was sometimes a powerful and almost independent feudal fief of the Kingdom of Sicily (and later of Naples), sometimes only a title, often given to the heir to the crown or to the husband of a reigning queen. When the House of Anjou was divided, Taranto fell to the house of Durazzo (1394-1463). Ferdinand I of Naples united the Principality of Taranto to the Kingdom of Naples at the death of his wife, Isabella of Clermont. The principality came to an end, but the kings of Naples continued giving the title of Prince of Taranto to their sons, firstly to the future Alfonso II of Naples, eldest son of Isabella. Counts *Geoffrey (1063 – bef. 1072) *Richard (bef. 1072–1080) Peter, as regent *Robert Guiscard (1080–1085) *Bohemond (1085–1088) Princes =Hauteville (Altavilla) dynasty= * 1088 - Bohemond I (1054–1111), later Bohemond I prince of the crusader state of Antioch; * 1111 - Bohemond II (1108, 1130), also prince of Antioch; * 1128 - King Roger II (1093–1154), duke of Apulia, king of Sicily, unifier of Southern Italy; * 1132 - Tancred, son of Roger II, prince of Bari, received the principality from his father; * 1138 - William I, later king of Sicily, son of Roger II, became prince of Taranto at the death of his brother Tancred; * 1144 - Simon, son of Roger II, became prince of Taranto when his brother William became prince of Capua and Duke of Apulia; * 1157 - William II, later king of Sicily; * 1189 - King Tancred of Sicily, Count of Lecce; * 1194 - William III, king of Sicily (deposed), Count of Lecce; =Hohenstaufen (Svevia) dynasty= *1194 - King Henry, Holy Roman Emperor and king of Sicily; 1198 - Robert; 1200 - Guy Walter III of Brienne, husband of (Albinia, Elvira) Mary of Lecce of Altavilla, daughter of King Tancred of Sicily (Tancred of Hauteville, Count of Lecce). Title confiscated at the death of Walter; * 1205 - King Frederick; * 1250 - Manfred of Sicily, son of Frederick II, later also king; =Angevin (Angiò) dynasty= * 1266 - King Charles I (1227–1285), defeated Manfred and was created King of Sicily by the pope; * 1285 - King Charles II (1248–1309), son of Charles I, king of Naples; * 1294 - Philip I (1278–1331), son of Charles II, and titular Latin Emperor; * 1331 - Robert of Taranto (1299–1364), son of Philip I; * 1346 - Louis of Taranto (1308–1362), son of Philip I, simultaneously king of Naples; * 1364 - Philip II (1329–1374), son of Philip I, and titular Latin Emperor; 1356 - Philip III, son of Philip II, died in his youth, the title returned to his father; =Baux (Del Balzo) dynasty= * 1374 - James of Baux, nephew of Philip II, and titular Latin Emperor; =Welf or Brunswick (Este del Guelfo) dynasty= * 1383 - Otto (1320–1398), widower of Joan I of Naples; =Orsini dynasty= * 1399 - Raimondo del Balzo Orsini, also known as Raimondello, husband of the Countess of Lecce Mary of Enghien, the Brienne heiress; * 1406 - Ladislaus of Durazzo, king of Naples, second husband of Mary of Enghien; * 1414 - James II of Bourbon-La Marche, husband of Joan II of Naples and briefly king-consort * 1420 - Giovanni Antonio del Balzo Orsini, son of Mary of Enghien and Raimondello; * 1463 - Isabella of Clermont, niece of Giovanni Antonio Princesses See also *History of Taranto Category:Lists of Italian nobility Category:Medieval Italy Category:Former countries on the Italian Peninsula Category:Lists of princes Category:States and territories established in 1088 Category:Former principalities "