Gravesite of Samuel Bigger (Fort Wayne, Indiana)

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Samuel Bigger (March 20, 1802 – September 9, 1845) was a Whig governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from December 9, 1840, to December 6, 1843. He was born in Franklin, Ohio, the son of John Bigger, the Ohio House of Representatives Speaker of the House. Samuel Bigger was a student at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio in the 1820s where he received both A.B. and A.M. degrees. Samuel Bigger later moved to Liberty, Indiana in 1829. His governorship was beset by the state’s debts, resulting from the failure of the Internal Improvements Program. He died in 1845 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, aged 43, and was buried in the city's McCulloch Park.

A stone memorial to the former governor was dedicated on August 13, 1994, by General Electric Company employees in recognition of the city's bicentennial.