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Atkinson graduated from the University Of Georgia with an LL.B. (law degree) in 1877. He married Susie Cobb Milton in 1880 . (Their son,'William Yates Atkinson, Jr., was the Georgia Democratic state chair in 1942 as well as a Georgia state Supreme Court justice from 1943 to 1948.) The elder Atkinson was the solicitor of the Coweta Superior Court circuit. He then represented Coweta County as a member of the Georgia House Of Representatives (1886-94), where he was the speaker, or presiding officer, during the last two years. He was also the Georgia Democratic Party state chair from 1890 to 1892. Atkison died on August 8 , 1899 in Newnan, Georgia . He is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in that city. Other notable facts about Atkinson:
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