by Geoff Paddock
Indiana Historical Society Press, 2008
Cloth: 978-0-87195-268-4 | eISBN: 978-0-87195-326-1
Library of Congress Classification F525.P33 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 977.20099

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 Hoosier politicians who have made a difference in Indiana and in the nation’s capital.

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