Joe Donnelly
Joseph Simon "Joe" Donnelly, Sr. (born September 29, 1955) is the junior United States Senator from Indiana and a member of the Democratic Party.
Born in Massapequa, New York, Donnelly graduated from The University of Notre Dame. From 1997 to 2001, he was a member of the Mishawaka Marian School Board, serving as the board's President from 2000 to 2001. In 2004, he ran for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, losing to Republican Chris Chocola. In 2006, he ran for the same seat, this time defeating incumbent Chocola. Donnelly represented Indiana's 2nd congressional district from 2007 to 2013. In May 2011, Donnelly announced his intentions to run for the U.S. Senate, winning his party's nomination one year later in an uncontested primary. He faced Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock, who had defeated 36-year incumbent Richard Lugar in the Republican primary. On November 6, 2012 Donnelly defeated Mourdock in the general election, securing 50% of the vote to Mourdock's 44%.
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“While we were thus engaged in the twilight, we heard faintly, from far down the stream, what sounded like two strokes of a woodchopper’s axe, echoing dully through the grim solitude.... When we told Joe of this, he exclaimed, “By George, I’ll bet that was a moose! They make a noise like that.” These sounds affected us strangely, and by their very resemblance to a familiar one, where they probably had so different an origin, enhanced the impression of solitude and wildness.”
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