Richard Green Lugar KBE was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1977 to 2013. He was a member of the Republican Party.
William Doyle Ruckelshaus was an American attorney and government official.
Birch Evans Bayh Jr. was an American Democratic Party politician who served as U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1963 to 1981. He was first elected to office in 1954,when he won election to the Indiana House of Representatives;in 1958,he was elected Speaker,the youngest person to hold that office in the state's history. In 1962,he ran for the U.S. Senate,narrowly defeating incumbent Republican Homer E. Capehart. Shortly after entering the Senate,he became Chairman of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments,and in that role authored two constitutional amendments:the Twenty-fifth—which establishes procedures for an orderly transition of power in the case of the death,disability,or resignation of the President of the United States—and the Twenty-sixth,which lowered the voting age to 18 throughout the United States. He is the first person since James Madison and only non–Founding Father to have authored more than one constitutional amendment. Bayh also led unsuccessful efforts to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and eliminate the Electoral College.
The 1982 United States Senate elections were held on November 2,1982. They were elections for the United States Senate following Republican gains in 1980. The 33 Senate seats of Class 1 were up for election in 1982. A total of four seats changed hands between parties,with Democrats winning seats in New Jersey and New Mexico,and Republicans taking seats in Nevada and the seat of the lone independent,Senator Harry Byrd Jr.,in Virginia. Democrats made a net gain of one seat bringing them to 46 seats,while Republicans stayed at 54 seats for a majority. However,the Democratic gain in New Jersey replaced a Republican that had been appointed earlier in the year.
Edgar Doud Whitcomb was an American attorney,writer and politician,who served as the 43rd governor of Indiana. His term as governor began a major rift in the Indiana Republican Party as urban Republicans became more numerous than rural Republicans,leading to a shift in the priorities of the party leadership.
Earl Fredrick Landgrebe was an American politician and businessman who served as a Republican senator in the Indiana Senate and member of the United States House of Representatives. During the Watergate scandal he defended President Richard Nixon,which cost him his seat in the 1974 congressional election.
Lawrence Keith Bulen was an Indiana politician.
For John Waterman of Rhode Island see John R. Waterman House
Floyd James Fithian was an American educator and politician who served as a United States Representative from Indiana as a Democrat. He was one of the forty nine Watergate Babies who won election to the House of Representatives in the wake of the Watergate scandal during the 1974 House elections with Fithian himself defeating Earl Landgrebe,who became infamous for his stalwart defense of President Richard Nixon. He was one of the fourteen members of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) and believed that the Kennedy assassination in 1963 was orchestrated by members of organized crime.
Teresa S. Lubbers currently serves as president of Sagamore Institute,a think tank. She was Indiana Commissioner for Higher Education from 2009 to 2020. She served from 1992 to 2009 as a Republican member of the Indiana Senate,representing the 30th District. She resigned in 2009 and was replaced by former Indianapolis City-County Councilman Scott Schneider,who served the rest of her term.
James W. Merritt Jr. is an American politician and former Republican member of the Indiana Senate from 1991 to 2020,representing the 31st District. He was first elected to the Indiana Senate in 1990. He was reelected to the state Senate in the 2010 election,defeating then-Marion County Sheriff Frank J. Anderson by a margin of 52% to 44%.
Rudolph M. Clay Sr. was an American activist and politician who was active in Indiana politics as a member of the Democratic Party. Clay was first active in politics with his election to the Indiana Senate from the 3rd district,then served in local politics in Lake County,Indiana,and served as the 19th Mayor of Gary,Indiana. He was the first black person elected to the state senate from Lake County and the first black person elected countywide in Lake County.
Joseph Hadden Hogsett is an American attorney,prosecutor,and politician who is the 49th mayor of Indianapolis,Indiana. Prior to being elected,Hogsett served as the Secretary of State of Indiana from 1989 to 1994 and as the Chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party from 2003 to 2004. He was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1992,for Indiana's 2nd congressional district in 1994 and for Attorney General of Indiana in 2004. He most recently served as the United States attorney for the Southern District of Indiana from 2010 to 2014. On November 3,2015,he won the race for Mayor of Indianapolis in the 2015 election. He won reelection to a second term in 2019. In 2023,he won reelection to a third term in office.
The 2016 United States Senate election in Indiana was held on November 8,2016,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Indiana. The election was held alongside the presidential election and 2016 Indiana elections.
The 1968 United States Senate election in Indiana took place on November 5,1968. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Birch Bayh was re-elected to a second consecutive term in office,defeating Republican State Representative William Ruckelshaus.
Steven James Braun was an American businessman and politician from the state of Indiana. A member of the Republican Party,he served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 2012 to 2014.
Jack Eugene Sandlin was an American politician who was a Republican member of the Indiana Senate,representing Senate District 36 from 2016 until his death. He previously served as a policeman,a Trustee in Perry Township,Indiana,and a member of the Indianapolis City-County Council.
Jill Elizabeth Ruckelshaus is a former special White House assistant and head of the White House Office of Women's Programs and a feminist activist. She also served as a commissioner for the United States Commission on Civil Rights in the early 1980s. Currently,she is a director for the Costco Wholesale Corporation.
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana were held on November 3,2020,to elect the nine U.S. representatives from the state of Indiana,one from each of the state's nine congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2020 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.
John Christian "Jack" Ruckelshaus II was an American lawyer and politician.
