death_date successor death_place birth_place profession birth_date order term_start image article_title term_end name
1871 joseph morgan fort wayne , indiana new york -lrb- state -rrb- newspaperman 1808 1st mayor of fort wayne , indiana march 1 , 1840 george wood.png george w. wood
 july 5 , 1841 george w. wood
george w. wood

george w. wood -lrb- 1808 -- 1871 -rrb- 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 .
from the news-sentinel : when fort wayne was incorporated as a city in 1840 , elections were promptly conducted and george w. wood was chosen as the first mayor .
wood was born in 1808 in new york state and came to fort wayne after studying law for a time at ann arbor , mich. .
but he gave up the legal profession to join thomas tigar , the founder of the fort wayne sentinel , as the town 's second newspaperman .
wood soon owned the newspaper , and he bought another , the fort wayne times .
he was elected to serve a second one-year term as mayor in 1841 , but halfway through the year he asked the council to allow him to return to his private affairs .
it seems wood was more interested in reporting the news than making it .
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