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Mayor of Fort Wayne
On the record
The reformer of the coal scandal: as a rookie councilman and City Utilities chairman he alleged the Martin Coal overcharges (about $2 a ton) that brought Mayor Branning’s indictment in 1950; he beat Branning in the 1951 primary, and a decade later held the office himself. As mayor he swore in the city’s first African American firefighter (7 October 1961) and received Nickel Plate locomotive 765 — renumbered 767 — for display in Lawton Park (May 1963). He later served for years on council, sponsoring the 1989 COIT ordinance whose Mayor Helmke veto the council overrode.
Find them on this page
- § 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: News-Sentinel retrospectives; ACGSI railroad history; Concordia Lutheran HS alumni record.