By this time, Dunning had established a reputation as a leading Indiana politician: he had served in the state legislature, been elected to the position of Lieutenant Governor, and served as Governor from 1838 to 1850.
William Henry Harrison, Governor of the Indiana Territory, often stopped to rest at their home while travelling to and from Vincennes.
In February 1851, at the urging of agricultural promoter Governor Wright, the Indiana General Assembly passed an act intended "to encourage agriculture" growth in the state, which also included the formation of a State Board of Agriculture.
Edward L. Jackson, 32nd Governor of Indiana was a member of Indiana branch of the Ku Klux Klan, he became involved in several scandals that continued throughout his term in office.
Jill Long Thompson, former U.S. Representative, former candidate for Governor of Indiana
He made an unsuccessful bid to become the Republican nominee for Governor of Indiana in 2003, losing to Mitch Daniels.
Otteson also edited a 14-volume study for the Governor of Indiana "which influenced state economic policy into the 1960s."
On December 15, 2013, was appointed by Governor Mike Pence to serve as the 56th State Auditor of Indiana, after the resignation and brief tenure of former State Auditor Dwayne Sawyer.
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In 1989, he was appointed to the United States Senate by Indiana Gov. Robert D. Orr following U.S. Sen. Dan Quayle's resignation from the Senate due to Quayle's election as Vice President of the United States.
With the outbreak of the American Civil War, Meredith enlisted in the Union Army, but Governor of Indiana Oliver Hazard Perry Morton soon appointed Meredith state commissary-general.
Jill Long Thompson, 2008 Democratic Party nominee for Governor of Indiana
Governors James B. Ray, Noah Noble and David Wallace were known as the "Brookville Triumvirate," in that they all had lived in Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana and served consecutive terms in the office of Governor of Indiana.
Henry Smith Lane (1811–1881), United States Representative, Senator and Governor of Indiana
In 1913, Thomas Marshall, Governor of Indiana, became yet another Democratic Hoosier to be a Vice President (under Woodrow Wilson).
Matthew E. Welsh (1912–1995), 41st governor of Indiana, from 1961–1965
WGU Indiana was the first state established school created June 11, 2010 by Executive Order 10-04, signed by then governor of Indiana Mitch Daniels.
In 2010, the first state-established school, WGU Indiana, was founded by Mitch Daniels, governor of Indiana, and the school reached 20,000 students for the first time.
James D. Williams, the fourteenth governor of Indiana, lived in Wheatland.