Joseph Whitehead (Coca Cola bottler)

Joseph Brown Whitehead (1864–1906) was a lawyer, who, along with Benjamin Thomas and John Thomas Lupton, obtained exclusive rights from Asa Candler to bottle and sell Coca-Cola.

Whitehead was born in Oxford, Mississippi in 1864. He attended the University of Mississippi and graduated with a degree in law.

He married Lettie Pate in 1895, and then the couple moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee.

In 1889, Whitehead and Thomas met with Candler. Candler gave the two exclusive rights to bottle the soft drink. After this meeting Lupton partnered with them.

Whitehead died in 1906 from pneumonia.