02341nam 2200565 450 991082049930332120230721041940.00-87195-326-9(CKB)3710000000274771(EBL)1793943(SSID)ssj0001352700(PQKBManifestationID)12537033(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001352700(PQKBWorkID)11311891(PQKB)10488412(MiAaPQ)EBC1793943(Au-PeEL)EBL1793943(CaPaEBR)ebr10939780(OCoLC)923709047(EXLCZ)99371000000027477120080128d2008 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIndiana political heroes /Geoffrey PaddockIndianapolis :Indiana Historical Society Press,2008.1 online resource (193 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87195-268-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Birch Bayh -- John Brademas -- R. Vance Hartke -- Richard Hatcher -- William Hudnut -- Richard Ristine -- J. Edward Roush -- William Ruckelshaus.Politics has always played an important role in Indiana, and the state itself at one time furnished candidates for national office for an assortment of American political parties. From 1840, when Whig William Henry Harrison captured the White House with his "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" campaign, to 1940, when Wendell Willkie won the Republican presidential nomination and challenged incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt's try for a third term in office, approximately 60 percent of the elections had Hoosiers on a party's national ticket. Indiana Political Heroes features essays on eight HoosiePoliticiansIndianaBiographyHeroesIndianaBiographyIndianaPolitics and governmentIndianaBiographyPoliticiansHeroes977.2009/9BPaddock Geoffrey1645805MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820499303321Indiana political heroes3992509UNINA