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Mayor of Fort Wayne
On the record
Two separate administrations.
Before the mayor's chair he was the city's street commissioner (1843) and then its high constable and collector (1844) — the man who kept the streets and collected the money — and from 1845 to 1849 he held the federal patronage post of postmaster, appointed by President Polk. His five one-year terms in the chair made him the city's most-repeated early mayor, and his first mayoralty ran straight into the gold-rush years, when Fort Wayne men were leaving for California in companies. Of the administrations themselves almost nothing survives in the consulted record — the offices around the chair are what the record kept.
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: U.S. Official Register (1847); Fort Wayne city rosters and the History Center’s mayoral record.