List of mayors of Fort Wayne, Indiana

The following people have served as mayor

Mayor

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of Fort Wayne, Indiana

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Fort Wayne is a city in the US state of Indiana and the county seat of Allen County. The population was 253,691 at the 2010 Census making it the 74th largest city in the United States and the second largest in Indiana...

#	Name	Party	Term	Notes
1	George W. Wood George W. Wood George W. Wood was an American politician. He was elected as the first mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1840. He served only 16 months before resigning on July 5, 1841....	Whig Whig Party (United States) The Whig Party was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy. Considered integral to the Second Party System and operating from the early 1830s to the mid-1850s, the party was formed in opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic...	1840	Elected mayor March 1, 1840 for the newly incorporated city of 2,080. Resigned July 5, 1841.
2	Joseph Morgan	Whig	1841-1842	Elected in special election to replace Wood.
3	Henry Lotz	Whig	1843	Resigned June 22, 1844.
4	John M. Wallace	Whig	1844	Elected in special election to replace Lotz. Resigned May 8, 1845.
5	Dr. Merchant W. Huxford Merchant W. Huxford Merchant W. Huxford was a physician, United States politician and former mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was born in Conway, Massachusetts and later moved to St. Marys, Ohio before finally settling permanently in Fort Wayne....	Whig	1845-1849	Elected in special election to replace Wallace.
6	William Stewart	Democrat	1849-1852
7	Dr. Philip G. Jones	Know Nothing Know Nothing The Know Nothing was a movement by the nativist American political faction of the 1840s and 1850s. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic immigrants, who were often regarded as hostile to Anglo-Saxon Protestant values and controlled by...	1852
8	Charles Whitmore	Democrat	1853-1854
9	William Stewart	Democrat	1855-1857
10	Samuel S. Morss	Know Nothing	1857-1859
11	Franklin P. Randall	Democrat	1859-1864
12	Judge James L. Worden	Democrat	1865	Resigned
13	Benjamin Saunders	Democrat	1866	Acting Mayor
14	Henry Sharp	Republican	1867–1868
15	Franklin P. Randall	Democrat	1869-1873
16	Charles Zollinger	Democrat	1873-1885
17	Charles F. Muhler	Democrat	1885-1889	Elected by council to complete Zolliger's term; reelected to second term.
18	Daniel L. Harding	Republican	1889-1893
19	Charles Zollinger	Democrat	1893	Died in office, December 28, 1893.
20	Henry P. Scherer	Democrat	1894
21	Chauncey B. Oakley	Republican	1894-1897
21	Henry P. Scherer	Democrat	1897-1901
22	Henry C. Berghoff	Democrat	1901-1905
23	William J. Hosey William J. Hosey William J. Hosey was an American politician and the 20th mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Between 1905 and 1934 he served four non-consecutive terms of office.-History:...	Democrat	1905-1909
24	Jesse Grice	Republican	1909-1913
25	William J. Hosey	Democrat	1913-1917
26	Sherman Cutshall	Republican	1917-1921
27	William J. Hosey	Democrat	1921-1925
28	William C. Geake	Republican	1925-1929
29	William J. Hosey	Democrat	1929-1934
30	Harry W. Baals	Republican	1934-1947
31	Henry Branning	Democrat	1947-1951	Indicted on charges of larceny Larceny Larceny is a crime involving the wrongful acquisition of the personal property of another person. It was an offence under the common law of England and became an offence in jurisdictions which incorporated the common law of England into their own law. It has been abolished in England and Wales,... while in office, charges later dropped
32	Harry W. Baals	Republican	1951-1954	Died in office.
33	Robert Meyers	Republican	1954-1959
34	Paul Mike Burns	Democrat	1959-1963
35	Harold S. Zeis	Republican	1963-1971
36	Ivan Lebamoff	Democrat	1971-1975
37	Robert E. Armstrong Robert E. Armstrong Robert E Armstrong was a former mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, former councilman of Allen County, Indiana and former athletic director of Snider High School.-Education:...	Republican	1975-1979
38	Winfield Moses Winfield Moses Winfield "Win" C. Moses Jr. is an American politician from Fort Wayne, Indiana.-Educational Background:Moses graduated from South Side High School in Fort Wayne in 1960. He then went on to Indiana University, where he graduated in 1964 with AB degrees in Economics and Philosophy and an MBA in 1966...	Democrat	1979-1985	Resigned from office in 1985 due to legal scandal.
39	Cosette Simon Cosette Simon Cosette Renee "Cosy" Simon is an American politician, business leader and philanthropist. As of June 2006, she was Vice President of Government and Industry Relations at insurance giant Swiss Re.-Political career:...	Democrat	1985	First woman mayor; appointed acting-mayor until special election, serving just 11 days.
40	Winfield Moses	Democrat	1985-1987	Re-elected to complete term after special election.
41	Paul Helmke Paul Helmke Walter Paul Helmke, Jr. is an American politician, and the former president of the Washington, DC-based Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. He held this position from July 2006 to July 10, 2011...	Republican	1987-1999	First mayor elected to three consecutive terms since Harry W. Baals.
42	Graham Richard Graham Richard Graham Richard is an American politician and entrepreneur, and the 34th and former mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, serving from 2000–2008. He was succeeded by Democrat Tom Henry.-Current work:...	Democrat	1999-2007
43	Tom Henry Tom Henry Tom Henry is an American politician, former Fort Wayne City Councilman, and current Mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA. He has an MBA from the University of Saint Francis and is the President and CEO of the Gallant Group, a small insurance company in Fort Wayne...	Democrat	2007-present	First Democrat elected to succeed another Democrat as mayor since 1905.

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