- Has 5 children.
- Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia from 1974-1982; and from 1989-1993.
- He adopted his first wife's daughter and fathered four biological children; two with his first wife, the former Burnella Hayes Burke and two with his present wife, the former Valerie Richardson.
- An attorney by profession, he graduated from North Carolina Central University Law School in Durham, North Carolina, USA.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 269-271. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
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