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The city's first federal officer of consequence has already appeared in this record: John Tipton, the Fort Wayne Indian agent of 1823–1828, sat in the United States Senate from 1832 to 1839. A generation later Fort Wayne produced a cabinet officer — Hugh McCulloch, cashier of the Fort Wayne branch of the State Bank of Indiana, who served as Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson (1865–1869) and again under President Arthur (1884–1885), the only Fort Wayne resident to hold a cabinet portfolio.
In the House of Representatives, the Fort Wayne district — numbered the Fourth until 2003 and the Third since — has been held in the modern era by: E. Ross Adair of Fort Wayne (Republican, 1951–1971), the district's twenty-year postwar congressman; J. Edward Roush (Democrat, 1971–1977), who beat Adair in 1970; Dan Quayle (Republican, 1977–1981), later Vice President; Dan Coats (Republican, 1981–1989), who left the seat for the United States Senate, where he served 1989–1999 and again 2011–2017; Jill Long (Democrat, 1989–1995); Mark Souder of Fort Wayne (Republican, 1995–2010), who carried the seat through the 2003 renumbering and resigned on 21 May 2010; Marlin Stutzman (Republican, 2010–2017), elected to finish Souder's term; Jim Banks (Republican, 2017–2025), who left to run for the Senate and won it in 2024; and Stutzman again, returned to the seat on 3 January 2025. In the statehouse, the city and county send a multi-member delegation of senators and representatives to the General Assembly each session; the county's own formation, its townships and its annexation law — the subjects of this whole section — are all creatures of that body's statutes, from the act of 17 December 1823 forward.
Sources: List of United States representatives from Indiana and Indiana's 3rd congressional district (en.wikipedia.org); Capitol and Washington (capitolandwashington.com), U.S. House District 4 roster.