{"id":11438,"date":"2022-12-06T16:40:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T21:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=11438"},"modified":"2023-04-05T14:17:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:17:20","slug":"barton-00-seeks-fourth-term-as-crawfordsville-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2022\/12\/06\/barton-00-seeks-fourth-term-as-crawfordsville-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Barton \u201900 seeks fourth term as Crawfordsville mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/12\/Todd-Barton-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"162\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/12\/Todd-Barton-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11439\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Todd Barton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Crawfordsville Mayor Todd Barton \u201900 announced that he will seek a seek a fourth term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barton was first elected the city\u2019s mayor in 2011 and took office Jan. 1, 2012. He was subsequently elected to serve second and third terms after being unopposed in the 2015 and 2019 elections. His 2015 and 2019 election victories mark the only times in Crawfordsville\u2019s 186-year history that a mayor\u2019s race was uncontested in the General Election. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have been fortunate to build a very strong team and we have partnered with the people of Crawfordsville to accomplish much over the last several years,\u201d Barton said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalreview.com\/stories\/crawfordsville-mayor-barton-to-seek-fourth-term,219113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Journal Review report<\/a>. \u201cTo say that Crawfordsville is a different place than when I was first elected, would be a significant understatement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Municipal offices will be on the ballot in Indiana in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barton is a Crawfordsville native and previously served the community for 26 years as a firefighter\/paramedic with the Crawfordsville Fire Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He earned his degree in three years by attending the liberal arts school full-time, working full-time, and raising a family. While at Wabash, Barton majored in political science and was an independent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crawfordsville Mayor Todd Barton \u201900 announced that he will seek a seek a fourth term. Barton was first elected the city\u2019s mayor in 2011 and took office Jan. 1, 2012. He was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/12\/Todd-Barton-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11440,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438\/revisions\/11440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}