Mayors of Fort Wayne, 1840-2009(may beincomplete!) GeorgeW. Wood 1840JosephMorgan 1841-42HenryLotz 1843JohnM. Wallace 1844MerchantW. Huxford 1845-49WilliamStewart 1849-52PhilipG. Jones 1852CharlesWhitmore 1853-54WilliamStewart 1855-57SamuelS. Morss 1857-59FranklinP. Randall 1859-64JamesL. Worden 1865BenjaminSaunders 1866HenrySharp 1867-68FranklinP. Randall 1869-73CharlesA. Zollinger 1873-85CharlesF. Muhler 1885-89DanielL. Harding 1889-93CharlesA. Zollinger 1893HenryF. Scherer 1894ChaunceyB. Oakley 1894-97HenryF. Scherer 1897-1901HenryC. Berghoff 1901-05WilliamJ. Hosey 1905-09JesseA. Grice 1909-13WilliamJ. Hosey 1913-17ShermanCutshall 1917-21WilliamJ. Hosey 1921-25WilliamC. Geake 1925-29WilliamJ. Hosey 1929-34HarryW. Baals 1934-47HenryE. Branning, Jr. 1947-51HarryW. Baals 1951-54RobertE. Meyers 1954-59PaulM. Burns 1959-63HaroldS. Zeis 1963-71IvanLebamoff 1971-75RobertE. Armstrong 1975-79WinfieldMoses 1979-87CosetteSimon 1987PaulHelmke 1987-99GrahamA. Richard 2000-07ThomasC. Henry 2008- Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1894:WilliamH. Shambaugh, defeated. 1925 May 4:WilliamJ. Hosey (Dem), nominated;A.C. Gladieux (Dem), defeated in primary;L.C. McCulloch (Dem), defeated in primary. 1925 May 4:WilliamC. Geake (Rep), nominated;JacobBill (Rep), defeated in primary;HarryA. Zwehlen (Rep), defeated in primary;R.L. Langtry (Rep), defeated in primary;F.C. Ireland (Rep), defeated in primary. 1925 Nov 3:WilliamC. Geake (Rep), elected;WilliamJ. Hosey (Dem), defeated. 1929 Nov 5:WilliamJ. Hosey (Dem), elected;JacobBill (Rep), defeated. 1942 Nov 3:HarryW. Baals (Rep), elected. 1954 May 9:HarryW. Baals, died in office. 1963 Nov 5:HaroldS. Zeis (Rep), elected;PaulM. Burns (Dem), defeated. 1975:IvanLebamoff, defeated. 1987:WinfieldMoses, resigned. 1999:DavidChristopher Roach (Dem), defeated in primary. 2003 May 6:GrahamA. Richard (Dem), nominated;CharlesEberhard (Dem), defeated in primary;ThomasAllen Schrader (Dem), defeated in primary;DavidChristopher Roach (Dem), defeated in primary. 2003 May 6:LindaBuskirk (Rep), nominated;O.'Bro' Blye (Rep), defeated in primary. 2003 Nov 4:GrahamA. Richard (Dem), elected;LindaBuskirk (Rep), defeated. 2007 May 8:ThomasC. Henry (Dem), nominated;TomCook (Dem), defeated in primary;FrederickF. Steinke (Dem), defeated in primary. 2007 May 8:MatthewKelly (Rep), nominated;NelsonPeters (Rep), defeated in primary;IvanR. Hood (Rep), defeated in primary;TeresaL. Licari (Rep), defeated in primary;WilbertBrown (Rep), defeated in primary. 2007 Nov 6:ThomasC. Henry (Dem), elected;MatthewKelly (Rep), defeated.
Postmasters at Fort Wayne, 1820-1990(may beincomplete!) BenjaminB. Kercheval 1820SamuelHanna 1820-25AllenHamilton 1825-31HenryRudisell 1831-41SmalwoodNoel 1841-45WilliamStewart 1845-49SamuelStophlet 1849-53JohnG. Maier 1853-61MosesDrake, Jr. 1861-68PeterP. Bailey 1868-69JohnJ. Kamm 1869-77FrederickW. Keil 1877-85WilliamKaough 1885-89CeciliusR. Higgins 1889-93WilliamW. Rockhill 1893-97WilliamD. Page 1897-1906RobertB. Hanna 1906-15EdwardC. Miller 1915-22HarryW. Baals 1922HarryW. Baals 1922-31ErnestJ. Gallmeyer 1931-34LewG. Ellingham 1934-39ClydeF. Driesbach 1939-51AlbertN. Smith 1951-52AlbertN. Smith 1952-65EugeneJ. Gabriel 1965-67EugeneJ. Gabriel 1967-90 Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1939 Mar 18:LewG. Ellingham, died in office.
Registers of U.S. Land Office at Fort Wayne, 1823-43(maybe incomplete!) SamuelC. Vance as of 1823-27WilliamPolke 1841-43 Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1843 Apr 26:WilliamPolke, died in office. | |
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