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During that second term, he established Atlanta"s first City Planning Commission and issued bonds to build the Spring Saint viaduct (completed December 20, 1923).
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James Lee
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By 1902, he was councilman representing the Sixth Ward and ran for mayor in 1904 and 1918 first losing to then defeating James G. Woodward. He was easily re-elected in the 1920 election. He didn"t run in 1922 but lost in 1924.
He was elected to a third term in the wake of the Atlanta graft ring scandal and early in that term he made public statements against Prohibition and the blue law bans of Sunday baseball games and Sunday movies.
This precipitated a recall vote in 1932 that he would have lost if not for support from the black community. He was instrumental in getting Harry Hopkins and his World Pet Association program to update the city sewer system and nearly a million dollars to remodel the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium and Cyclorama building.
By the time he was campaigning for his fifth term, against William B. Hartsfield in 1936, the nearly 70-year-old Key was accused of spending only an hour a day at his office and lost a contentious race. He died in 1939 after finally seeing the end of Prohibition.
