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.
