Albert Staton

Albert Staton

Staton c. 1920
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Position	End
Class	1922
Personal information
Born:	(1899-12-04)December 4, 1899 Attalla, Alabama
Died:	January 15, 1980(1980-01-15) (aged 80) Medellin, Colombia
Weight	182 lb (83 kg)
Career history
College	Georgia Tech (1918–1922)
High school	Boys
Career highlights and awards
SIAA championship (1918, 1920, 1921) SoCon championship (1922) All-Southern (1919, 1920, 1921, 1922) Tech Athletics Hall of Fame Tech All-Era Team (John Heisman Era)

Albert Hammond Staton (December 4, 1899 – January 15, 1980) was a college football and basketball player for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets of the Georgia Institute of Technology,^[1] and a Coca-Cola executive in Colombia.

Early years

Albert Staton was born on December 4, 1899, in Attalla, Alabama, the son of John Curtis Staton and Bivien Hammond Staton.^[2] He attended Boys High School in Atlanta, Georgia.

Georgia Tech

Staton graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from Georgia Tech. He was a prominent end for the Georgia Tech football team. He was selected All-Southern every year he played,^[3] and picked for its All-Era Team. Albert played with his brother John.

In 1921, Staton was captain of the basketball team.^[4]

Staton was elected into the Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame in 1963.^[5]

Al Staton was the first chief executive officer of the Alumni Association and editor of its magazine.^[6] He could also sing, a baritone.^[7]

Coca-Cola

He worked for the Coca-Cola company in Colombia, founding the company Panamerican Beverages.^[8][9] He joined the company in 1924.^[10]

World War II

During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps.^[11]

References

1. Albert H. Staton
2. "Georgia, World War I, Statement of Service Cards, 1920-1929," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPF7-MBJS: 9 September 2019), Albert Hamon Staton, 1 Oct 1918; citing Atlanta, DeKalb, Georgia, United States, Military Service, Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta.
3. "Georgia Tech Has Four on All-Southern Team". Miami Herald. December 13, 1922.
4. "Staton Elected". The Atlanta Constitution. March 20, 1920. p. 14.
5. "Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on August 7, 2016. Retrieved November 28, 2014.
6. "75 Years Ago". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine. 84 (1): 69. 2007.
7. Southern Telephone News. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company, Incorporated. 1921.
8. Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation. Univ of California Press. May 28, 2019. ISBN 9780520970946.
9. Parkinson, Charles (March 8, 2012). "New Colombian entrant on Forbes rich list".
10. Ciafone, Amanda (2018). "Selling Local Modernization through the Global Corporation: Coca-Cola Bottling in Colombia, 1927-1944". Historia y Sociedad (34): 41–75. doi:10.15446/HYS.N34.65507. S2CID 158980469.
11. Staton, Inge; Villa, Ofelia Luz de (2015). The Unknown Legacy of Albert H. Staton. White Poppy Press. ISBN 9780990570905.