List of People From Indiana - Politicians and Activists

Politicians and Activists

  • Frank J. Anderson, Marion County Sheriff (Indianapolis)
  • Birch Bayh, former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate (Terre Haute)
  • Evan Bayh, U.S. Senator and former Governor of Indiana (Shirkieville)
  • Albert J. Beveridge, U.S. Senator of Indiana (Indianapolis)
  • Otis R. Bowen, Governor of Indiana and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
  • Roger D. Branigin, Governor of Indiana and 1968 candidate for President. (Franklin)
  • Jesse D. Bright, U.S Senator and President Pro Tempore of the Senate (Madison)
  • George Washington Buckner, U.S. minister to Liberia, 1913–1915, (Evansville)
  • Earl Butz, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (Albion)
  • Maria Cantwell, U.S. Congresswoman and U.S. Senator (Indianapolis)
  • Homer E. Capehart, businessman and U.S. Senator (Algiers)
  • James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence under President Barack Obama (Fort Wayne)
  • Benjamin V. Cohen - a key figure in the administrations of presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (Muncie)
  • Schuyler Colfax, U.S. Congressman and Speaker of the House of Representatives, U.S. Vice President (South Bend)
  • John Wesley Davis, U.S. Congressman and Speaker of the House of Representatives (Carlisle)
  • Eugene V. Debs, labor and political leader (Terre Haute)
  • William Hayden English, U.S. Congressman and Vice Presidential Candidate (Lexington)
  • Charles W. Fairbanks, U.S. Senator and Vice President of the United States (Indianapolis)
  • John W. Foster, U.S. Secretary of State (Evansville)
  • Walter Q. Gresham, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Postmaster General, Secretary of State (Lanesville)
  • Charles A. Halleck, U.S. Congressman (Rensselaer)
  • Lee H. Hamilton, U.S. Congressman (Bloomington)
  • Clifford Hardin, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (Knightstown)
  • Benjamin Harrison, U.S. President
  • William Henry Harrison, U.S. President and Governor of Indiana Territory
  • Richard Hatcher, Gary Mayor (Gary)
  • John Hay, U.S. Secretary of State (Salem)
  • Will H. Hays, U.S. Postmaster General (Sullivan)
  • Thomas A. Hendricks, U.S. Senator and Vice President (Indianapolis)
  • Louis McHenry Howe, close political advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Indianapolis)
  • Jonathan Jennings, First congressional representative from the Indiana Territory and early abolitionist (Vincennes)
  • Cleve Jones, Gay/Human rights activist, created the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt (West Lafayette)
  • Michael C. Kerr, U.S. Congressman and Speaker of the House of Representatives (New Albany)
  • Ron Klain, Chief of Staff to Vice President Joe Biden (Indianapolis)
  • Abraham Lincoln, 16th President, lived in Indiana from ages 7–21 (Spencer County)
  • Richard Lugar, U.S. Senator and former Mayor of Indianapolis (Indianapolis)
  • Thomas R. Marshall, U.S. Vice President (North Manchester)
  • Mack F. Mattingly, U.S. Senator from Georgia, Asst. Sec Genl. NATO, US Ambassador
  • Edward Ralph May, only delegate to the Indiana Constitutional Convention of 1850 to support African American suffrage (Angola)
  • Hugh McCulloch, US. Secretary of the Treasury (Fort Wayne)
  • William H.H. Miller, U.S. Attorney General (Indianapolis)
  • Sherman Minton, U.S. Senator and Supreme Court Justice
  • Oliver P. Morton, Governor of Indiana (Centerville)
  • Harry S. New, U.S. Postmaster General (Indianapolis)
  • Mike Pence, US Congressman (Columbus)
  • Dennis Pennington, State Senator and early abolitionist (Central Barren)
  • Bart Peterson, former Mayor of Indianapolis (Indianapolis)
  • John Poindexter, National Security Advisor under President Ronald Reagan (Washington)
  • John Wesley Posey, Abolitionist (Petersburg, Indiana)
  • Dan Quayle, former U.S. Senator and U.S. Vice President (Indianapolis)
  • John Rarick, former U.S. Representative from Louisiana
  • John Roberts, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice (Long Beach)
  • William Ruckelshaus, former U.S. Director of the F.B.I. and Deputy Attorney General.
  • Caleb Blood Smith, U.S. Secretary of the Interior (Indianapolis)
  • Ted Stevens, U.S. Senator from Alaska (Indianapolis)
  • John Palmer Usher, U.S. Secretary of the Interior (Terre Haute)
  • Mark Warner, current U.S. Senator for Virginia, former Governor of Virginia (Indianapolis)
  • Gary Webb, Journalist (Indianapolis)
  • Ryan White, AIDS activist (Kokomo)
  • Claude R. Wickard, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (Camden)
  • Wendell Willkie, 1940 Republican presidential nominee (Elwood)

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