Maynard Jackson

Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Jr. was former mayor of Atlanta, helping to build the new Hartsfield International Airport (also named after a former mayor, William Berry Hartsfield) at the site of Candler Field (named after yet another former mayor and Coca-Cola tycoon Asa Candler). He was also mayor when MARTA began rapid transit service, and when Atlanta won as host of the 1996 Centennial Summer Olympics in September 1990.

He died of cardiac arrest at an Arlington, Virginia hospital after suffering a heart attack at Reagan National Airport in June 2003.