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Mayor of Fort Wayne
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Civil War mayor in his first administration.
Randall was a lawyer of the founding generation: he arrived in 1838, drafted the city's first charter — approved by the legislature on 22 February 1840 — and designed the city seal that has been in use since 1858. He served as recorder, city attorney, state senator (1847–1850) and county commissioner before the chair. The term itself changed under him: extended to two years in 1859, he won five two-year terms across his two mayoralties. His defining hour came at the start of the Civil War: on 15 April 1861 he called the great Union meeting at Hedekin Hall to order — the war mayor of the city's mobilization.
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- § 04 — the mayoral roster
Roster cross-checked between the City of Fort Wayne’s official mayors page and the full dated list — sources printed under the roster in § 04. Further sources: ACGSI / Allen INGenWeb, the 1840 charter history; Political Graveyard; Griswold, Pictorial History of Fort Wayne (1917).