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1898–1902 · THE YOUNGEST MAYOR IN THE CITY'S HISTORY
The mayor: South Bend's eleventh mayor was the son of the most famous man the city ever sent to Washington. Schuyler Colfax III — son of Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House and Grant's vice president — was twenty-eight when he took the office in 1898, the youngest mayor in the city's history, a mark the Government section's roster still carries. His administration holds one landmark of its own: it was in his term, in 1902, that James Oliver's new City Hall opened on North Main Street and the government of South Bend moved into a building of its own for the first time, thirty-seven years after incorporation. The youngest mayor's monument is the first city hall.
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- The Government section of this history — the roster of mayors (Colfax III, 1898–1902, "the city's youngest mayor") and his profile: twenty-eight at taking office, son of Vice President Schuyler Colfax, and the 1902 City Hall opening in his term.