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Mayor of Fort Wayne
On the record
First mayor; the pioneer newspaperman. Resigned mid-term in his second year.
A New Yorker who had read law at Ann Arbor, then gave it up to become the town’s second newspaperman alongside Sentinel founder Thomas Tigar. City government begins 22 February 1840: incorporation, a prompt election, and Wood as first mayor. He won a second one-year term in 1841, then asked the council, halfway through it, to let him go back to his private affairs — the first mayor was also the first to quit.
New York-born, law-trained, then the town's second newspaperman beside Sentinel founder Thomas Tigar. Elected the city's first mayor in 1840, and the first to resign the office, halfway through his second term.
Find them on this page
- § 04 — the mayoral roster
- § 06 — people of the record
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.