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1963 — the present
The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, has never gone to a person born, raised, or based in Fort Wayne. The full recipients' roster was read for the city and the name does not appear; Indiana's medalists belong to other Indiana cities — Senator Richard Lugar of Indianapolis, who received the medal in 2013, and the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame at South Bend, who received it in 1964, are the roster's Indiana figures. The line is printed empty for the same reason the Nobel answer is printed in full: a ledger of honors that quietly drops the categories where the city has none would mislead in exactly the way this section exists to prevent.
Sources:
- The recipients' roster of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, read in full for any Fort Wayne name (none) and for its Indiana entries — Hesburgh (1964) and Lugar (2013) — whose cities are South Bend and Indianapolis.