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Photographer: The University of Arkansas Press
Caption:
the William Ashmead Courtenay Bust, as mentioned | Additional Description:
WILLIAM ASHMEAD COURTENAY
Mayor of Charleston, 1879-1887
As Chief Magistrate
He administered the government with
firmness, impartiality and success.
Even amid the disasters of cyclone and earthquake,
signally illustrating the safe maxim, that,
"PUBLIC OFFICE IS A PUBLIC TRUST"
This memorial erected by his grateful fellow-citizens,
December 19th, 1888.
The following biography is reprinted from "The News and Courier" Charleston, SC Dec. 15, 1952, page 16:
William A. Courtenay Ranks With the City's Greatest Mayors A bust of William Ashmead Courtenay, considered by many persons to have been Charleston's greatest mayor, occupies a niche in the corner of the committee room to the west of the City Council Chamber in City Hall. It is almost as if this likeness of the man who guided Charleston's destinies through its greatest disaster, the 1886 earthquake, watches over the deliberations of the committees which mold the policies of city government.
Submitted: January 18, 2012, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p189564
File Size: 0.035 Megabytes
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