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Measured against the banked rosters · Osceola and Penn Township
The type case — a forty-year elected official, the pattern of South Bend's long-serving city clerk John Voorde — was tested against every Osceola and Penn Township tenure this build holds. The measured longest services print whole: Denese Thornburg, clerk-treasurer 2012–2023, about twelve years; Doris Portolese, Penn Township trustee since 2015, eleven years and standing; Timothy Wesco, state representative since 2010 (art-71-10), sixteen years, but a state seat, not a town one. No town or township tenure in the record reached approaches forty years, and no press or official source reached names one. The test is printed as what it is: a tested negative at roster strength — the rosters themselves are the search, and they are short because the town is young as a corporation (incorporated after 1917) and small. A forty-year tenure hidden in the pre-2012 dark line of the clerk-treasurer's office cannot be excluded from the open record; its settler is named.
Named gap: any long tenure in the unrecorded spans (notably the clerk-treasurer line 1993–2012) — settler: town minute books and the SBOA Schedules of Officials read as a continuous run.
Sources: Government and Notable People (banked rosters); SBOA Schedule of Officials; IIMC newsletters.