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Mayors of Fort Wayne
Wikipedia list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Fort_Wayne,_Indiana
List of Fort Wayne Mayors since 1840 on the City of Fort Wayneweb site and photo of most of those mayors posted July 5, 2018 on Facebook and Twitter. Mayors and Postmasters of Fort Wayne, Indiana on PoliticalGraveyard.com.

Mayor of Fort Wayne 1885-1917
Allen County Community Album photo
See photo Mayors of Fort Wayne 1885 to 1917: composite of portrait photographs of Charles F. Muhler, Daniel L. Harding, Henry P. Scherer, Chauncey B. Oakley, Henry C. Berghoff, Jesse Grice, William J. Hosey. Reproduced from a printed source. Original rather dark. at the Allen County Community Album.
- George W. Wood 1840 photo March 22, 2014 onthe original Great Memories and History of Fort Wayne, Indiana page on Facebook. Photo of burial site discussed September 14, 2018 on You are positively from Fort Wayne, if you remember... Archived group only visible to existing members on Facebook.
- Joseph Morgan 1841 & 1942
- Henry Lotz 1843
- John M. Wallace 1844
- Dr. Merchant W. Huxford 1845 - 1849
- William Stewart 1849 - 1852, 1855 - 1857
- Dr. Philip G. Jones 1852
- Charles Whitmore 1853 & 1854
- Samuel S. Morss 1857 - 1859
- Franklin P. Randall 1859 - 1864, 1869 - 1873
- Judge James L. Worden 1865
- Benjamin Saunders 1866
- Henry Sharp 1867 & 1868
- Col. Charles Zollinger 1873 - 1885,
1893, a democrat was elected to six successive two-year terms.
In 1891, after being out of office for six years, he was elected mayor for a seventh time. Zollinger’s seventh term was for three years, but he died in office in late December of 1893. At the time of his death, Zollinger had served as Fort Wayne’s mayor for more than 14 years.
Copied from Media, Henry wrong on mayoral facts by G. Stanley Hood in Letters published Janaury 16, 2015 in The Journal Gazette newspaper. See also Colonel Charles A. Zollinger: seven-time mayor of Fort Wayne (1956) Archive.org - Charles F. Muhler 1885 - 1889
- Daniel L. Harding 1889 - 1893
- Henry F. Scherer 1894, 1897 - 1901
- Chauncey B. Oakley 1894 - 1897
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Annual message of ... , mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind. with annual reports of heads of departments of the city government for the fiscal year ending ...(1896) - Fort Wayne (Ind.) Archive.org - Henry F. Scherer 1894, 1897 - 1901
Annual message of ... , mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind. with annual reports of heads of departments of the city government for the fiscal year ending .. (Volume yr.1898) - Fort Wayne (Ind.) and a second copy Archive.org - Henry C. Berghoff 1901 - 1905
Annual message of ... , mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind. with annual reports of heads of departments of the city government for the fiscal year ending .. (Volume yr.1901) - Fort Wayne (Ind.) Archive.org
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Annual message of ... , mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind. with annual reports of heads of departments of the city government for the fiscal year ending (1905) Archive.org - William J. Hosey 1906 - 1910
Annual message of ... , mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind. with annual reports of heads of departments of the city government for the fiscal year ending .. by Fort Wayne (Ind.) Publication date 1906 - Jesse Grice 1910-1914 Jesse A. Grice; sheriff and mayor, 1852-1915 - Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County, sheriff 1904-1908, mayor 1910-1914 Archive.org
- William J. Hosey 1914 - 1918
- Sherman Cutshall 1918-1922
- William J. Hosey 1922-1926
- William C. Geake 1926 - 1930
- William J. Hosey 1930-1934
- Harry W. Baals 1934 - 1947, frequently and erroneously accredited as Fort Wayne’s longest-serving mayor, he served 15 years when he died in office in May of 1954.
- Henry Branning 1948 - 1951
- Harry W. Baals 1952-5/9/1954
- Robert Meyers 1954 - 1959
- Paul Mike Burns 1960 - 1963
- Harold S. Zeis 1964 - 1971
- Ivan Lebamoff 1972 - 1975
- Robert Armstrong 1976 - 1979
- Winfield Moses 1980 - 1985
- Cosette Simon 7/8/1985-7/19/1985
- Winfield Moses 7/20/1985 1987
- Paul Helmke 1988 - 1999
- Graham Richard 2000 -2007
- Tom Henry 2008 - 2011, 2012 - 2015, 2016 - , 2020, 2021 - present, The last mayor to win three straight terms was Paul Helmke, a Republican who served from 1988 through 1999. Henry is the first Democrat to win a third straight term as mayor and first Democrat to serve a third term as mayor since Charles Zollinger 1873 to 1885. Read more Henry wins 3rd straight term by Dave Gong published November 4, 2015 in The Journal Gazette newspaper.
- Meet the Mayor web page