Personal Life
Mourdock is a pilot, motorcyclist and an avid runner who has completed nine marathons, including one on his 60th birthday. He first began entering marathons at age 49. He formerly built open-wheel modified race cars and raced them on dirt roads. He is a history buff who has been a speaker on the subjects of early U.S. politics and Abraham Lincoln. Mourdock is a longtime active member of the non-denominational evangelical Christian Fellowship Church in Evansville and has made a number of Christian missionary trips through his church to Bolivia. He resides in Darmstadt, Indiana, a small town near Evansville, with his wife, Marilyn.
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