Editing George Roby Dempster (section)

==Legacy==
Buildings constructed during Dempster's tenures as city manager and mayor include the [[Henley Street Bridge]], the Church Avenue and Fifth Avenue [[viaduct]]s, four public library branches, and [[Bill Meyer Stadium]].  He also convinced the city to buy [[Chilhowee Park]] and Tyson Park.<ref name=tumblin>{{cite web | first=Jim |last=Tumblin |url=http://www.fountaincitytnhistory.info/People7-Dempster.htm | title=Fountain Citians Who Made a Difference &ndash; George R. Dempster|date=2002 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101120335/http://www.fountaincitytnhistory.info/People7-Dempster.htm | archive-date=1 January 2011 | url-status=usurped | access-date=13 October 2023}}</ref>  Dempster built several houses in Knoxville, some of which still stand in Fountain City and [[Old North Knoxville]].<ref name=tumblin /><ref>Ann Bennett, National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form for Old North Knoxville Historic District, August 9, 1991.</ref>

Dempster hired the city's first African-American civil service secretary, and supported desegregation in the 1950s and 1960s.<ref name=tumblin />  He championed a number of causes in support of the handicapped and the blind, including a radio program that featured blind pianists.<ref name=tumblin />  He was given the Father Abram Ryan Award by the [[Knights of Columbus]] in recognition of his civil service shortly before his death.<ref name=deaderick />