Other High Offices Held
This is a table of congressional seats and other federal offices held by governors. All representatives and senators mentioned represented Indiana except where noted.
- * Denotes those offices for which the governor resigned the governorship.
- † Denotes those offices from which the governor resigned to take the governorship.
Governor | Gubernatorial term | U.S. Congress | Other offices held | Sources | |
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U.S. House | U.S. Senate | ||||
William Henry Harrison | 1800–1812 | Delegate from Northwest Territory†, U.S. Representative and Senator from Ohio, Minister to Gran Colombia, President of the United States |
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Thomas Posey | 1813–1816 | U.S. Senator from Louisiana | |||
Jonathan Jennings | 1816–1822 | H* | Delegate from Indiana Territory | ||
Ratliff Boon | 1822 | H | |||
William Hendricks | 1822–1825 | H† | S* | ||
David Wallace | 1837–1840 | H | |||
James Whitcomb | 1843–1848 | S* | |||
Joseph A. Wright | 1849–1857 | H | S | Minister to Prussia | |
Henry Smith Lane | 1861 | H | S* | ||
Oliver P. Morton | 1861–1867 | S* | |||
Thomas A. Hendricks | 1873–1877 | H | S | Vice President of the United States | |
James D. Williams | 1877–1880 | H† | |||
Albert G. Porter | 1881–1885 | H | Minister to Italy | ||
Alvin P. Hovey | 1888–1891 | H† | Minister to Peru | ||
J. Frank Hanly | 1905–1909 | H | |||
Thomas R. Marshall | 1909–1913 | Vice President of the United States | |||
Samuel M. Ralston | 1913–1917 | S | |||
Paul V. McNutt | 1933–1937 | High Commissioner to the Philippines, Ambassador to the Philippines | |||
Otis R. Bowen | 1973–1981 | U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | |||
Robert D. Orr | 1981–1989 | Ambassador to Singapore | |||
Evan Bayh | 1989–1997 | S | |||
Mitch Daniels | 2005– | Director of the Office of Management and Budget |
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