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George W. Wood (1808–1871) 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. - See more at: http://egen.fortwayne.com/ns/projects/history/haw7.php#sthash.Tsps85EY.dpuf ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George W. Wood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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