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3 unusual facts about Vance Hartke


Vance Hartke

He also was instrumental in creating the International Executive Service Corps, an organization, modeled after the Peace Corps that sent retired U.S. businessmen to poor countries to help turn small businesses into large ones.

Four year later, after narrowly surviving a primary challenge by freshman Eighth District Congressman Philip Hayes, Hartke was defeated for reelection by Indianapolis Mayor Richard Lugar in a landslide; he only carried one county, Lake County.

Senator Hartke introduced a bill to create the George Washington Peace Academy and a Department of Peace.



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