Richard Green Lugar 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 politician. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as a member of United States Senate 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 United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution,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 United States Electoral College.
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%.
Brandt Hershman is an American politician and a former Republican state senator for Indiana. He served from 2000 to 2018. He is married to Lisa Hershman.
Darryl Brent Waltz Jr. is an American politician and businessman. He served in the Indiana Senate from 2005 to 2017,representing southern Marion County and northern Johnson County which comprise the 36th Senate District of Indiana following his defeat of Senate Finance Chairman Larry Borst in the May 2004 Republican primary election. His investment banking company,The Baron Group,Inc.,specializes in mergers,acquisitions,and capitalization of small to midsize private companies in the transportation and manufacturing industries. In 2016 Waltz announced he would not seek reelection in order to run for Indiana's 9th congressional district being vacated by Congressman Todd Young. Waltz was unsuccessful in this campaign and subsequently indicted for violating federal campaign finance law.
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 2020 Indiana gubernatorial election was won by incumbent Republican Eric Holcomb on November 3,2020. The election was held concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election,as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local 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.
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.
