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Governor of Indiana
The Governor of Indiana is the chief executive officer of the government of Indiana. Elected to a four year term, the Governor is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day management of the functions of many of state government agencies and shares power in other agencies with publicly elected state...
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Jonathan Jennings
Jonathan Jennings (1784 – July 26, 1834) was a two-term governor and a nine-term congressman from Indiana. Born in Readington, New Jersey, he studied law with his brother before immigrating to Indiana in 1806 where he took part in land speculation....
Date of birth:
- 1784
Date of death:
- Jul 26, 1834 (age 50 years)
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Ratliff Boon
Ratliff Boon (January 18, 1781 – November 20, 1844) was the Governor of Indiana from September 12 to December 5, 1822, after Governor Jonathan Jennings' election to Congress. A prominent politician in the state, he was instrumental the formation of...
Date of birth:
- Jan 18, 1781
Date of death:
- Nov 20, 1844 (age 63 years)
William Hendricks
William Hendricks (November 12, 1782 – May 16, 1850) was a Democratic-Republican member of the House of Representatives from 1816 to 1822, Governor of Indiana from 1822 to 1825, and an Anti-Jacksonian member of the U.S. Senate from 1825 to 1837. He...
Date of birth:
- Nov 12, 1782
Date of death:
- May 16, 1850 (age 67 years)
James B. Ray
James Brown Ray (February 19, 1794 – August 4, 1848) was an Indiana politician and the only Senate President-Pro-Tempore to succeed to become Governor of the State of Indiana. He served during the period when the state transitioned from personal...
Date of birth:
- Feb 19, 1794
Date of death:
- Aug 4, 1848 (age 54 years)
Noah Noble
Noah Noble (January 15, 1794 - February 8, 1844) was a Whig governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1831 to 1837. His two terms focused largely on internal improvements, culminating in the passage of the Mammoth Internal Improvement Act, which...
Date of birth:
- Jan 15, 1794
Date of death:
- Feb 8, 1844 (age 50 years)
David Wallace
David Wallace (September 12, 1799 – September 4, 1859) was a Whig governor of the U.S. state of Indiana. The Panic of 1837 occurred just befofe his election and the previous administration, which he had been part of, had taken on a large public debt...
Date of birth:
- Sep 12, 1799
Date of death:
- Sep 4, 1859 (age 60 years)
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Samuel Bigger
Samuel Bigger (March 20, 1802 – September 9, 1846) was a Whig governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from December 9, 1840 to December 6, 1843. Bigger was nominated to run for governor because he had no connection to the failed public works program....
Date of birth:
- Mar 20, 1802
Date of death:
- Sep 9, 1846 (age 44 years)
Party:
James Whitcomb
James Whitcomb (December 1, 1795–October 4, 1852) was a Democrat United States Senator from and Governor of Indiana. As governor during the Mexican-American War, he oversaw the formation and deployment of the state's levies. He led the movement to...
Date of birth:
- Dec 1, 1795
Date of death:
- Oct 4, 1852 (age 56 years)
Paris C. Dunning
Paris Chipman Dunning (March 15, 1806 – May 9, 1884) was a Democratic state representative, state senator, senate-pro-tempore, lieutenant governor, and governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from December 26, 1848 to December 5, 1849. He is the only...
Date of birth:
- Mar 15, 1806
Date of death:
- May 9, 1884 (age 78 years)
Joseph A. Wright
Joseph Albert Wright (April 17, 1810 – May 11, 1867) was a Democratic governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from December 5, 1849 to January 12, 1857, most noted for his opposition to banking. His positions created a rift between him and the Indiana...
Date of birth:
- Apr 17, 1810
Date of death:
- May 11, 1867 (age 57 years)
Party:
Ashbel P. Willard
Ashbel Parsons Willard (October 31, 1820–October 4, 1860) was state senator, lieutenant governor, and governor of the U.S. state of Indiana. His terms in office were marked by increasingly severe partisanship leading to the breakup of the state...
Date of birth:
- Oct 31, 1820
Date of death:
- Oct 4, 1860 (age 39 years)
Abram A. Hammond
Abram Adams Hammond (March 21, 1814–August 27, 1874) was twelfth governor of the U.S. state of Indiana. He succeeded to the office upon the death of Governor Ashbel P. Willard and completed the remaining three months of Willard's term.
Abram Adams...
Date of birth:
- Mar 21, 1814
Date of death:
- Aug 27, 1874 (age 60 years)
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Henry Smith Lane
Henry Smith Lane (February 24, 1811 – June 19, 1881) was a United States Representative, Senator, and Governor of Indiana; he was by design the shortest-serving Governor of Indiana, having made plans to resign the office should his party take...
Date of birth:
- Feb 24, 1811
Date of death:
- Jun 18, 1881 (age 70 years)
Party:
Oliver Hazard Perry Morton
Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton (August 4, 1823–November 1, 1877) was a U.S. Republican Party politician from Indiana. He served as Governor of Indiana during the American Civil War, and was a stalwart ally of President Abraham Lincoln. During the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 4, 1823
Date of death:
- Nov 1, 1877 (age 54 years)
Party:
Conrad Baker
Conrad Baker (February 12, 1817 – April 28, 1885) was a state representative, lieutenant governor, and a Republican governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1867 to 1873. Baker had served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, rising to...
Date of birth:
- Feb 12, 1817
Date of death:
- Apr 28, 1885 (age 68 years)
Party:
Thomas A. Hendricks
Thomas Andrews Hendricks (September 7, 1819 – November 25, 1885) was a U.S. Representative and a Senator from Indiana, a Governor of Indiana, and the 21st Vice President of the United States (serving with Grover Cleveland). The first Democratic...
Date of birth:
- Sep 6, 1819
Date of death:
- Nov 25, 1885 (age 66 years)
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James D. Williams
James Douglas Williams (January 16, 1808 – November 20, 1880), nicknamed "Blue jeans Bill", was a farmer and Indiana Democratic politician holding public office for forty-one years, and was the only farmer elected the governor of Indiana and served...
Date of birth:
- Jan 16, 1808
Date of death:
- Nov 20, 1880 (age 72 years)
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Isaac P. Gray
Isaac Pusey Gray (October 18, 1828 - February 14, 1895) was the governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1880 to 1881 and from 1885 to 1889. Originally a Republican, he oversaw the forceful passage of the post-American Civil War constitutional...
Date of birth:
- Oct 18, 1828
Date of death:
- Feb 14, 1895 (age 66 years)
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Albert G. Porter
Albert Gallatin Porter (1824-1897), was an Indiana governor, and United States Congressman. Only the second person born in Indiana to become the state's governor, he reluctantly accepted his party's nomination to run. His term saw the start of...
Date of birth:
- Apr 20, 1824
Date of death:
- May 3, 1897 (age 73 years)
Alvin P. Hovey
Alvin Peterson Hovey (September 6, 1821 –November 23, 1891) was a Union general during the American Civil War, an Indiana Supreme Court justice, congressman, and a governor of Indiana. During the war he played an important role in several battles...
Date of birth:
- Sep 6, 1821
Date of death:
- Nov 23, 1891 (age 70 years)
Party:
Ira Joy Chase
Ira Joy Chase (December 7, 1834 – May 11, 1895) was a veteran of the American Civil War, a leading member of the Grand Army of the Republic, a prominent Church of Christ evangelist, and the Governor of Indiana between November 23, 1891 – January 9,...
Date of birth:
- Dec 7, 1834
Date of death:
- May 11, 1895 (age 60 years)
Claude Matthews
Claude Matthews (1845 - 1898) was a Democratic governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1893 to 1897. A farmer, he was nominated to prevent the loss of voters to the Populist Party. The Panic of 1893 occurred just before he took office, leading to...
Date of birth:
- Dec 14, 1845
Date of death:
- Apr 28, 1898 (age 52 years)
Party:
James A. Mount
James Atwell Mount (1843 - 1901) was Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1897 to 1901. His term occurred during the economic recording following the Panic of 1893, and focused primarily on industrial regulations and advancement of agriculture...
Date of birth:
- Mar 24, 1843
Date of death:
- Jan 16, 1901 (age 57 years)
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Winfield T. Durbin
Winfield Taylor Durbin (1847 – 1928) was governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1901 to 1905. His term focused on progressive legislation and suppression of white cap vigilante organizations operating in the southern part of the state. He was...
Date of birth:
- May 4, 1847
Date of death:
- Dec 18, 1928 (age 81 years)
Party:
Frank Hanly
James Franklin Hanly (April 4, 1863 – August 1, 1920) was a United States politician who served as a congressman from Indiana from 1895 until 1897, and was the 26th Governor of Indiana from 1905 to 1909. He was the founder of Hanly's Flying Squadron...
Date of birth:
- Apr 4, 1863
Date of death:
- Aug 1, 1920 (age 57 years)
Party:
Thomas R. Marshall
Thomas Riley Marshall (March 14, 1854 – June 1, 1925) was an American Democratic politician who served as the 28th Vice President of the United States under Woodrow Wilson from 1913 to 1921. A prominent lawyer in Indiana, he became an active and...
Date of birth:
- Mar 14, 1854
Date of death:
- Jun 1, 1925 (age 71 years)
Party:
Samuel M. Ralston
Samuel Moffett Ralston (December 1, 1857–October 14, 1925) was Democratic politician, governor of and a United States Senator from the U.S. state of Indiana. Born into a large impoverished family, he took many jobs as a child including working in a...
Date of birth:
- Dec 1, 1857
Date of death:
- Oct 14, 1925 (age 67 years)
Party:
James P. Goodrich
James Putnam Goodrich, (February 18, 1864 - August 15, 1940), a Republican, was Governor of Indiana from 1917 to 1921. His term focused on reforming the operations of the state government and overseeing the state's contributions for World War I. He...
Date of birth:
- Feb 18, 1864
Date of death:
- Aug 15, 1940 (age 76 years)
Party:
Warren T. McCray
Warren Terry McCray (February 4, 1865 near Brook, Indiana – December 19, 1938 in Kentland, Indiana) was governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1921 to 1924. He came into conflict with the growing influence of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan after...
Date of birth:
- Feb 4, 1865
Date of death:
- Dec 19, 1938 (age 73 years)
Party:
Emmett Forrest Branch
Emmett Forrest Branch (May 16, 1874 – February 23, 1932) was governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1924 to 1925, serving the remainder of the term of Warren T. McCray after he resigned from office after being convicted for mail fraud. His brief...
Date of birth:
- May 16, 1874
Date of death:
- Feb 23, 1932 (age 57 years)
Party:
Ed Jackson
Edward L. "Ed" Jackson (December 27, 1873 - November 18, 1954) was governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from January 12, 1925, to January 14, 1929. A member of Indiana branch of the Ku Klux Klan, he became involved in several scandals that...
Date of birth:
- Dec 27, 1873
Date of death:
- Nov 18, 1954 (age 80 years)
Party:
Harry G. Leslie
Harry Guyer Leslie (April 6, 1878 - December 10, 1937) was a Indiana Republican Party politician, speaker of the state house and governor. His term as governor was marked by the start of the Great Depression.
Harry G. Leslie was born in West...
Date of birth:
- Apr 6, 1878
Date of death:
- Dec 10, 1937 (age 59 years)
Party:
Paul V. McNutt
Paul Vories McNutt (July 19, 1891 - March 24, 1955) was an American politician who served as governor of Indiana during the Great Depression, high commissioner to the Philippines, administrator of the Federal Security Agency, chairman of the War...
Date of birth:
- Jul 19, 1891
Date of death:
- Mar 24, 1955 (age 63 years)
Party:
M. Clifford Townsend
Maurice Clifford Townsend (1884 - 1954) was governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1937 to 1941. During his term he led relief efforts during and after the Great Flood of 1937.
Maurice Clifford Townsend, known as Clifford to his friends and...
Date of birth:
- Aug 11, 1884
Date of death:
- Nov 11, 1954 (age 70 years)
Henry F. Schricker
Henry Frederick Schricker (30 August 1883 – 28 December 1966) was Democratic governor of the American state of Indiana from 1941 to 1945 and from 1949 to 1953. He is the only Indiana governor elected to two non-consecutive terms, and the only...
Date of birth:
- Aug 30, 1883
Date of death:
- Dec 28, 1966 (age 83 years)
Party:
Ralph F. Gates
Ralph Fesler Gates (February 24, 1893 - July 28, 1978) was Republican Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1945 to 1949. A lawyer and veteran of World War I, he is credited with returning his party to power after the Ku Klux Klan scandal in...
Date of birth:
- Feb 24, 1893
Date of death:
- Jul 28, 1978 (age 85 years)
Party:
George N. Craig
George North Craig (August 6, 1909-December 17, 1992) was a Republican Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1953 until 1957. A lawyer and veteran of World War II who was promoted to serve in a division command staff, Craig first gained...
Date of birth:
- Aug 6, 1909
Date of death:
- Dec 17, 1992 (age 83 years)
Party:
Harold W. Handley
Harold Willis Handley (November 27, 1909 - August 30, 1972) was a Republican governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1957 to 1961. A veteran of World War II, and furniture salesman by trade, Handley began his political career as a state senator....
Date of birth:
- Nov 27, 1909
Date of death:
- Aug 30, 1972 (age 62 years)
Party:
Matthew E. Welsh
Matthew Empson Welsh (September 15, 1912 - May 28, 1995) was a Governor of Indiana from the Democratic Party, serving from 1961 to 1965. His term as governor saw a major increase in statewide taxation, including the first state sales tax, and the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 15, 1912
Date of death:
- May 28, 1995 (age 82 years)
Party:
Roger D. Branigin
Roger Douglas Branigin (July 26, 1902–November 19, 1975) was a Democrat Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from January 11, 1965 to January 13, 1969. A veteran of World War II, and well known public speaker, when Branigin took office with a...
Date of birth:
- Jul 26, 1902
Date of death:
- Nov 19, 1975 (age 73 years)
Edgar Whitcomb
Edgar Doud Whitcomb (born November 6, 1917), a veteran and escaped prisoner of war during World War II, he returned to the United States an became and attorney and the 43rd Governor of Indiana. His term as governor began a major rift in the Indiana...
Date of birth:
- Nov 6, 1917 (age 92 years)
Party:
Otis R. Bowen
Dr. Otis Ray Bowen (born February 26, 1918) is a retired U.S. politician and physician. He served as Governor of Indiana from 1973 to 1981 and as Secretary of Health and Human Services from 1985 to 1989.
Bowen was born near Rochester, Indiana, to...
Date of birth:
- Feb 26, 1918 (age 91 years)
Party:
Robert D. Orr
Robert Dunkerson Orr (November 17, 1917 - March 10, 2004) was an American political leader and Governor of Indiana from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Orr was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, but was raised in Evansville, Indiana...
Date of birth:
- Nov 17, 1917
Date of death:
- Mar 10, 2004 (age 86 years)
Party:
Evan Bayh
Birch Evans "Evan" Bayh III (pronounced /ˈbaɪ/, like "by"; born December 26, 1955) is an American Democratic politician who has served as the junior U.S. Senator from Indiana since 1999 and earlier served as Governor of Indiana.
Bayh first held...
Date of birth:
- Dec 26, 1955 (age 53 years)
Party:
Frank O'Bannon
Frank Lewis O'Bannon (January 30, 1930-September 13, 2003) was an American politician who was Governor of Indiana from 1997 until his death in 2003.
O'Bannon was a native of Corydon, Indiana (the first state capital of Indiana), where his family...
Date of birth:
- Jan 30, 1930
Date of death:
- Sep 13, 2003 (age 73 years)
Party:
Joe Kernan
Joseph "Joe" Eugene Kernan (born April 8, 1946) is an American politician who became the Governor of Indiana on September 13, 2003 upon the death of Frank O'Bannon. He was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1946. Kernan is a member of the Democratic Party...
Date of birth:
- Apr 8, 1946 (age 63 years)
Party:
Mitch Daniels
Mitchell Elias "Mitch" Daniels, Jr. (born April 7, 1949) is the current Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana. A Republican, he began his four-year term as Indiana's 49th Governor on January 10, 2005 and was elected to his second term on November 4,...
Date of birth:
- Apr 7, 1949 (age 60 years)
