John A. Goodlett

His father was Dr. Adam Gibb Goodlett, a physician, surgeon and planter, and his mother, Charlotte Phanuel Campbell.{{Cite web |url=http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nashvillearchives/mayors.html |title=Friends of Metropolitan Archives of Nashville and Davidson County, TN |access-date=2013-03-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313015642/http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nashvillearchives/mayors.html |archive-date=2016-03-13 |url-status=dead }}[http://files.usgwarchives.net/mo/henry/bios/gbio/goodlett.txt Archives: Goodlett Biographies] His siblings were Michael C. Goodlett, George Washington Goodlett, James Goodlett and William Goodlett. His brother Michael was the husband of Caroline Meriwether Goodlett, who founded the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

He served as Mayor of Nashville from 1846 to 1847.[http://www.library.nashville.org/research/res_nash_history_mayors.asp Nashville Library]William B. Nicholson, Profiles of early Tennessee leaders, 1780-1861, Nicholson, 1977, p. 111 [https://books.google.com/books?id=93M8AAAAIAAJ&q=%22john+A.+Goodlett%22+nashville]William Henry McRaven, Nashville, Athens of the South, Tennessee Book Company, 1949, p. 272 [https://books.google.com/books?id=qjAXAAAAIAAJ&q=%22john+A.+Goodlett%22+nashville]

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