Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton, Coca-Cola was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century.

* 1851 – Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician ( d. 1929 )

* March 12 – Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician ( b. 1851 )

* December 30 – Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician ( d. 1929 )

The following important figures were also born in Villa Rica: Coca-cola business tycoon and former mayor of Atlanta Asa Griggs Candler ; former Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and tenth president of Emory University Warren Akin Candler ; former baseball star Fred " Dixie " Walker ; former University of Georgia offensive tackle Ken Shackleford ; and former NFL punter Herman " Thunderfoot " Weaver.

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* 2011: Paul Root Wolpe, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics, Director, Center for Ethics, Emory University

Woodruff was born in Columbus, Georgia, the son of Ernest Woodruff, an Atlanta businessman who, among other things, was leader of the group of investors who bought The Coca-Cola Company from Asa Griggs Candler in 1919.

After the turn of the 20th century, Emory College received a generous monetary and land grant from Asa Griggs Candler, president of The Coca-Cola Company, and moved its operations to Druid Hills, closer to Atlanta.

Atlanta was chosen as the home of new Emory University after Asa Griggs Candler, president of The Coca-Cola Company, deeded the university 65 acres of land in Druid Hills, six miles from the city's downtown, and contributed $ 1 million to the school's endownment.

He was the son of Harris Henry Dobbs, and cousin of Asa Griggs Candler, founder of The Coca-Cola Company.

It is named after Coca-Cola magnate Asa Griggs Candler, who donated this land to the city in 1922.

* Callan also has links with Asa Griggs Candler's family and the Coca-Cola company.

Geoffrey Bennington ( born 1956 ) is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emory University, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee ( Switzerland ), as well as a member of the International College of Philosophy.

P. Merle Black ( born 1942 ) is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Political Science at Emory University.

Coca-Cola founders Asa G. Candler and Dr. John S. Pemberton are seen together at Asa G. Candler & Co. pharmacy, 47 Peachtree St., Atlanta in the only extant albumen photograph from 1888.

The result was an early version of Coca-Cola, although the coca ingredient ( cocaine ) was the main active ingredient when the company was acquired by Asa Candler.

In 1891, Asa Candler became the sole proprietor of Coca-Cola after purchasing the rights to the business.

As part of the agreement, the property was renamed Candler Field after its former owner, Coca-Cola tycoon and former Atlanta mayor Asa Candler.

In 1887, the Coca-Cola Company was incorporated in Atlanta with Asa Candler as one of the partners.

* 1888 – Asa Candler used paper tickets for free glasses of Coke to help market his new soda

Asa Candler was also a philanthropist, endowing numerous schools and universities as well as the Candler Hospital in Savannah, GA.

* The second son, Asa G. Candler, Jr. ( 1880 – 1953 ), eccentric, alcoholic and depressed, became a real-estate developer, opening the Briarcliff Hotel.

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William Asa Hutchinson ( born December 3, 1950 ) is a former U. S. Attorney for the Fort Smith-based Western District of Arkansas, U. S. Congressman from the Third District of Arkansas, Administrator of the U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the first-ever Under Secretary for Border & Transportation Security at the U. S. Department of Homeland Security.

Asa Packer ( December 29, 1805-May 17, 1879 ) was an American businessman who pioneered railroad construction, was active in Pennsylvania politics, and founded Lehigh University.

In December 1859 the botanist Asa Gray negotiated with a Boston publisher for publication of an authorised American version, however, he learnt that two New York publishing firms were already planning to exploit the absence of international copyright to print Origin.

A 1997 poll in the Japanese TV Asahi program Asa Made Nama Terebi showed that 70 percent of respondents opposed enjo-kōsai involving sexual interactions, while 30 percent approved of it.

Asa Gray ( November 18, 1810 – January 30, 1888 ) is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century.

* September 30, 1956 The towns of Asa and Habu merged to form the town of San ' yō.

On 30 June 1794, a supply column left Fort Recovery for Fort Greenville, under the command of Major William McMahon and escorted by ninety riflemen under Captain Asa Hartshome and fifty dragoons under Lieutenant Edmund Taylor.

John Wright and Asa Pingree were among the Topsfield men who chartered the Danvers and Georgetown Railroad in 1851, with plans to run a rail line between those two towns through Topsfield.

* 1810 – Asa Gray, American botanist ( d. 1888 )

American botanist Asa Gray ( 1810 – 1888 )

* April 1 – Asa Butterfield, English actor

1867 ) proposed by Asa Hutchinson ( R – Arkansas ) put a ban on soft money and raised hard money limits.

* अस ा म ी अस ा म ी ( Asa Mi Asami ) – 1964

* Asa Lyon ( 1763 – 1841 ) a United States Representative from Vermont was born in town.

) Other notable Revolutionary War era residents included Asa Pollard ( 1735 – 1775 ), the first soldier killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and Thomas Ditson ( born 1741 ), who was tarred and feathered by the British in 1775 while on a visit to Boston.

* Asa Adgate, ( 1767 – 1832 ), born in Canaan, United States Congressman

* April 10 – A group of racial segregationists ( followers of Asa Earl Carter ) rush the stage at a Nat King Cole concert in Birmingham, Alabama, but are quickly captured.

* Asa Bird Gardiner ( 1839 – 1919 ), controversial soldier, attorney, and prosecutor

* Asa Trenchard ( a rustic American ) – Joseph Jefferson

* The BBC – The First Fifty Years, by Briggs, Asa.

* The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume I – The Birth of Broadcasting, by Briggs, Asa.

Asa Philip Randolph ( April 15, 1889 – May 16, 1979 ) was a leader in the African-American civil-rights movement, the American labor movement and socialist political parties.

* Asa Adgate ( 1767 – 1832 ), United States Congressman from New York, held several local government positions here.

Another Hiroshima woman, Asa Takii ( 1884 – 1998 ), had also lived to age 114, and in doing so she had become the oldest in Japan, but Kawate is the oldest person in the city's history and the only one from there to become the oldest recognized living person.

* A flora of North America: containing abridged descriptions of all the known indigenous and naturalized plants growing north of Mexico, arranged according to the natural system by John Torrey and Asa Gray ( 1838 – 1843 ) Two volumes.

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Asa Shinn Mercer ( June 6, 1839 – August 10, 1917 ) was the first president of the Territorial University of Washington and a member of the Washington State Senate.