Daniel Ray Coats is an American politician,attorney,and diplomat. From 2017 to 2019,he served as the Director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration. A member of the Republican Party,he served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1989 to 1999 and again from 2011 to 2017. He was the United States Ambassador to Germany from 2001 to 2005,and a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1989. Coats served on the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence while in the U.S. Senate.
Reagan's coattails refers to the influence of Ronald Reagan's popularity in elections other than his own,after the American political expression to "ride in on another's coattails". Chiefly,it refers to the "Reagan Revolution" accompanying his 1980 election to the U.S. presidency. This victory was accompanied by the change of twelve seats in the United States Senate from Democratic to Republican hands,producing a Republican majority in the Senate for the first time since 1954.
Thomas Matthew McDermott Jr. is an American attorney and politician from the state of Indiana serving as the 20th mayor of Hammond,Indiana. He took office on January 1,2004,the first elected government office he has held. He is a member of the Democratic Party. After winning the general election in November 2015 for a fourth term,McDermott became the longest-serving mayor in Hammond's history. He was elected to a sixth term in 2023.
Birch Evans "Evan" Bayh III is an American politician who served as the 46th governor of Indiana from 1989 to 1997 and as a United States senator representing Indiana from 1999 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party,he currently serves on the President's Intelligence Advisory Board.
Elections were held in Indiana on Tuesday,November 2,2010. Primary elections were held on May 4,2010.
Todd Christopher Young is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Indiana,a seat he has held since 2017. A member of the Republican Party,Young previously served as the U.S. representative for Indiana's 9th congressional district. He was elected to the United States Senate in the November 8,2016,general election,succeeding retiring Republican Dan Coats. From 2019 to 2021,he served as the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Young was reelected in 2022.
Pamela Lynn Carter is an American lawyer,politician,and business executive. She was the first black woman to serve as a state's attorney general. She served as Indiana Attorney General from 1993 to 1997.
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.
John Phillip Devine is an American attorney and judge who is a justice on the Supreme Court of Texas. A Republican,he was a judge on a Texas District Court from 1995 to 2002. Since 2013,he has been on the Texas Supreme Court. According to The Texas Tribune,Devine's juridicial philosophy is strongly "shaped by his religious beliefs and deeply conservative politics."
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 1996 Indiana gubernatorial Election was held on November 5,1996,alongside the election of both houses of the Indiana General Assembly. Incumbent Governor Evan Bayh,a Democrat,was ineligible to run for a third consecutive term due to term limits established by the Indiana Constitution. He was succeeded by Lt. Governor Frank O'Bannon,who won election over Republican Stephen Goldsmith with 52% of the vote.
The 1992 Indiana gubernatorial election was held on November 3,1992. Incumbent Governor Evan Bayh,a Democrat,won reelection over his Republican challenger,Linley E. Pearson with 62% of the vote. He was the first Democratic governor of Indiana to win reelection since governors became eligible for election to consecutive terms in office in 1972.
Rodric D. "Rod" Bray is an American politician from Indiana. A member of the Republican Party,Bray has been a member of the Indiana State Senate since 2012,representing the 37th state Senate district,which comprises all of Morgan County and a portion of Johnson,Owen and Putnam counties.
The 1988 Indiana gubernatorial election was held on November 8,1988,in all 92 counties in the state of Indiana. Incumbent Governor Robert D. Orr,a Republican,was ineligible to run for a third consecutive term due to term limits established by the Indiana Constitution. In the general election,the Republican nominee,Lieutenant Governor John Mutz,was defeated by Democrat Indiana Secretary of State Evan Bayh by a margin of six percentage points. Bayh was the first Democrat to be elected Governor of Indiana since Roger D. Branigin's victory during the 1964 Democratic landslides twenty-four years previously.
Curtis Theophilus Hill Jr. is an American prosecutor from the Republican Party who served as the 43rd Attorney General of Indiana from 2017 to 2021. He was the first African American to be elected to a statewide office in Indiana.
Theodore Lorraine Sendak was an American politician who served as the thirty-sixth Attorney General of Indiana from January 13,1969,to January 12,1981.
Virginia Dill McCarty was an American lawyer who served as the U.S. Attorney for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana from 1977 to 1981,and became the first woman to be appointed and serve a full,four-year term as U.S. Attorney. McCarty's career as a public servant in Indiana also worked as a deputy attorney general and assistant attorney general for the State of Indiana (1964–1969),a member of the Indiana Board of Law Examiners (1971–1976),chief counsel to the Marion County,Indiana,Prosecutor (1975–1976),and chairman of the Board for the Indiana Department of Correction (1989–2006). In addition,McCarty co-founded the Indiana Women's Political Caucus and the Greater Indianapolis Women's Political Caucus in 1971 and served as the first president of each organization. As an advocate for women's equality and increasing women's roles in politics and government,McCarty was also involved in the campaign to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in Indiana in 1977.
The 2022 United States Senate election in Indiana was held on November 8,2022,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Indiana. Incumbent Senator Todd Young won to a second term.
The 2020 Indiana Attorney General election was held on November 3,2020,to elect the Attorney General of the U.S. state of Indiana. The Democratic primary convention was scheduled for June 13,2020. The Republican primary convention was scheduled with a live stream on June 18,2020,followed by mail-in voting between June 22 and July 9.
John J. Dillon Jr. was an American lawyer and politician who served as the thirty-fifth Indiana Attorney General from January 11,1965,to January 13,1969.
