Charles Collier

Charles Augustus Collier (; July 19, 1848 – September 28, 1900) was an American banker, lawyer, and politician who served as Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, from 1897 to 1899.

Early career Collier was born in 1848 in a Georgia village that would later be known as Gate City. He was the son of Judge John J. Collier and Henrietta E. Wilson. At the age of 18, he entered into the University of Georgia to study law. While there, he joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. In 1899, Collier was elected mayor again, pro tem. Just a year after leaving office he was accidentally shot and killed while searching for a burglar in his backyard in the early morning of September 28, 1900. He was buried in Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery.

His wife, Suzie (died 1897) was the daughter of William A. Rawson. His son John Collier Sr. was commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1933 to 1945 and known for his effort to reform the BIA with the Indian New Deal. His daughter Julia Collier Harris was a writer and journalist who won a 1926 Pulitzer Prize, the first to go to a Georgian.