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South Bend: Mishawaka: Roberts Grew up Schulyer Colfax John Brademas Was the First Greek-American Member Here and Was Gary: Was One of Two Men of the U.S Long Beach: Chief Justice John South Bend: Mishawaka: Roberts grew up Schulyer Colfax John Brademas was the first Greek-American member here and was Gary: was one of two men of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving from 1959- Whigs, captain of the in history to serve as On 1981, the last four as the Majority Whip. He is best football team at La the Speaker of the January 1, 1968, known for creating the National Endowment for the Lumiere School in House and Vice Richard Hatcher Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. La Porte. President (1863-1869 became the first and 1869-1873). African-American Bremen: mayor in Indiana Home of Governor Otis Willkie, and the first in the Bowen (1973-1981), who U.S. of a city with was the first to serve eight a population over consecutive years in office 100,000 people. since 1851. Bowen holds Katie Hall served in the distinction of winning the U.S. House of the most votes ever by an and the Representatives Indiana governor in 1976. from 1982-1985 and led the campaign to Mayor Richard Hatcher Harry Truman in Marion establish the Dr. Ft. Wayne: Martin Luther King, Governor Otis Bowen Catherine Jr., national holiday. North Manchester: Dinklage was the first White Thomas Marshall served as the Vice President under woman elected to office in Woodrow Wilson from 1913-1921, a position he once Indiana, serving on the city described as “a disease, not an office.” council. She was chosen as a delegate to the Huntington: Democratic National Hometown of Dan Quayle, Vice Convention in 1924. President from 1989 -1993. House: J. Edward Roush preceded Quayle Logansport: in the U.S. House of U.S. Senator John Tipton served as the Representatives from 1971-1977. Chairman of Native Affairs under Andrew The Huntington Reservoir was Jackson, and in 1838 organized the forced renamed “J. Edward Roush Lake” removal of Potawatomi Native Americans to in his honor. Indiana Kansas, known as the “Trail of Death.” The town and county of Tipton are named for him. Lafayette: Franklin D. Roosevelt in Indianapolis Political Tecumseh was a Shawnee who organized the George Dale largest Native American tribal confederacy in Wendell Willkie 1808, attempting to establish a pan-Indian Elwood: nation. American troops destroyed his home Hometown of Wendell Theodore Roosevelt in Lebanon village at Prophetstown during the Battle of Willkie, who was the Tippecanoe while Tecumseh was away in 1811. unsuccessful Republican History nominee for President in 1940—the Muncie: last from the two major parties to Julia D. Nelson was the first Covington: never previously hold an office. woman to serve in the Indiana U.S. Senator Daniel Yorktown: General Assembly in 1921. Voorhees (1877-1897) David Kilgore was George Dale, as mayor of was instrumental in creating Lebanon: Muncie (1930-1935), battled Crawfordsville: the only Speaker of the Library of Congress. Stephen Neal was a founder of the the Indiana House the Ku Klux Klan, replacing Cecil M. Harden Henry Smith Lane Republican Party in Boone County in the entire police and fire was a U.S. Representative and the 13th of Representatives served in the U.S. 1856, later serving as a judge. It is departments and most of the Governor, serving for only two days (1855) from the House of alleged that Neal wrote a draft of the local government. before becoming a U.S. Senator. Lane Fusion political Representatives 14th Amendment. His bust is was the keynote speaker at the 1856 party. from 1949-1959. displayed in the outer Rotunda Republican Convention and was “Cecil M. Harden in the Statehouse. Centerville: Lake” is named influential in the nomination of Abraham Lincoln. Home of bitter rivals in her honor. Indianapolis: Oliver P. Morton and State Capital since 1825 (See George W. Julian: inset map). Morton was the 14th Governor of Indiana Robert Brokenburr Shirkieville: Home of U.S. Senator (1999-2011) and during the Civil War. Indiana Governor (1989-1997) Evan Bayh. In his reelection Morton was an as Governor in 1992, Bayh won the highest percentage of opponent of abolition the vote in a statewide election in modern Indiana history. Shelbyville: but an ally to Lincoln. Thomas Hendricks Julian, an abolitionist, Terre Haute: In 1920, Eugene Debs, served as Vice President under served in the U.S. arrested under the Espionage Act for Martinsville: Grover Cleveland in 1885 but House of speaking against World War I, became the Paul McNutt served as died in office after only eight Representatives and only person to run for President while in the 34th Governor of months. The office remained wrote the first prison. Indiana (1933-1937) during the Great vacant until 1889. women’s suffrage In 1933 Virginia Jenckes became the first Depression and saved the state from amendment in 1868. Indiana woman elected to the U.S. House bankruptcy. McNutt later became a of Representatives. prominent member of Franklin Senator Birch Bayh (1963-1981) was on the Roosevelt’s administration, appearing on master list of Nixon opponents and is the the covers of Time and Life magazines. only non-Founding Father to author two amendments to the Constitution. Bayh drafted an updated version of the Equal Rights Amendment and was the author of Butlerville: Title IX. Hannah Milhous Nixon, Richard Nixon’s mother, was born near Butlerville in 1885. President Nixon received his biggest majority win in Indiana Governor Paul McNutt in the 1968 presidential Charlestown: election. Jonathan Jennings was the first Governor of the Vincennes: state of Indiana (1816- Capital of the Indiana 1822) and nine-time Territory, then Territorial Senator Birch Bayh member of the U.S. Governor William Henry House of Indianapolis: Harrison built a home, Representatives. French Lick: James Hinton was elected as an at-large delegate to the Grouseland, here. Harrison Jennings strongly Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1872 Republican National Convention and was elected supported a ban of was elected President in announced his intention to run Georgetown: to the Indiana House of Representatives in 1880, 1840. A month after he for President at a National slavery in the new state. U.S. Senator Sherman becoming its first African-American member. Robert delivered the longest Governors’ Convention in Minton (1935-1941) Brokenburr was the first African-American State inaugural address, French Lick in 1931. was nominated by Senator in 1940. Harrison died of President Truman to Corydon: The State pneumonia. Indianapolis attorney Benjamin Harrison was elected serve on the Supreme Capital until Senator Vance Hartke President in 1888. Although Harrison received 100,000 Stendal: Court. A bridge 1825 less votes, he carried the Electoral College. (1959-1977) is best-known for crossing the Ohio opposing the Vietnam War; he also River is named in his At a party for President Theodore Roosevelt in is responsible for requiring all cars honor. to be equipped with seatbelts. Indianapolis in 1907, Vice President Charles Fairbanks served drinks and created a media firestorm that Gentryville: damaged his political career. But Fairbanks, Alaska, is Abraham Lincoln’s family moved here in named in his honor. 1816 and stayed 14 years. Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln is buried on the Robert Kennedy was campaigning in Indianapolis on grounds of the Lincoln April 4, 1968, the day of the assassination of Martin Boyhood National Luther King, Jr. Kennedy announced King’s death in a Memorial. historic speech, and he is credited with the reason Indianapolis was one of the only major cities to avoid rioting on that night. Richard Lugar, the former Mayor of Indianapolis, is Indiana’s longest-serving U.S. Senator, representing the state from 1977-2013. Map created by the Ball State University Libraries’ GIS Research and Map Collection for use in classrooms or educational research and learning. Sources: Ball State University Libraries’ Digital Media Repository; Indiana Historical Society; The Indiana Book of Records, Firsts, and Fascinating Facts by Fred D. Cavinder; Indiana: A History by William E. Wilson. .
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