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Senate Years of Service: 1977- Party: Republican
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LUGAR, Richard Green, a Senator from Indiana; born in Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind.,
April 4, 1932; attended the public schools of Indianapolis; graduated, Denison
University, Granville, Ohio 1954; attended Pembroke College, Oxford, England,
as a Rhodes Scholar and received a graduate degree in 1956; businessman,
involved in the manufacturing of food production equipment, livestock and grain
operations; United States Navy 1957-1960; member, Indianapolis Board of School
Commissioners 1964-1967; mayor, Indianapolis 1968-1975; unsuccessful Republican
candidate for the United States Senate in 1974; elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate in 1976 and reelected in 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000, and again
in 2006 for the term ending January 3, 2013; chair, Republican Senatorial
Campaign Committee (Ninety-eighth Congress), Committee on Foreign Relations
(Ninety-ninth Congress, One Hundred Eighth and One Hundred Ninth Congresses),
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry (One Hundred Fourth through
One Hundred Sixth Congresses, One Hundred Seventh Congress [January 20-June 6,
2001]).
BibliographyLugar, Richard.
Indianapolis: Crossroads of the American Dream. Memphis,
Tenn.: Towery Publishing, 1996; Lugar, Richard.
Letters to the Next President. New York: Simon & Schuster,
1988.
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