List Of People From Indiana
This is a list of notable people who were born or lived in the American state of Indiana. Founders and pioneers * Squire Boone, frontiersman (Laconia) * Jonathan Jennings, first Governor of Indiana * Dennis Pennington, first speaker of the house in Indiana, also built the first capitol building ( Corydon) * Spier Spencer, militia leader who died in the Battle of Tippecanoe Military * Marion T. Anderson, Medal of Honor recipient in American Civil War (Decatur County) * Martha Baker, nurse in the American Civil War (Concord) * Jeremy Michael Boorda, Admiral, Chief of Naval Operations (South Bend) * Ambrose Burnside, General in the Civil War, sideburns are named after him (Liberty) * John Howard Cassady U.S. Navy Admiral, Commander in Chief Naval Forces Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean ( Spencer) * George Rogers Clark, man who conquered Indiana for the United States ( Clarksville) * Sammy L. Davis, Medal of Honor recipient from Vietnam War, U.S. Army (Freedom) * Jonathan ...
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Flag Of Indiana
The flag of Indiana was designed by Paul Hadley and officially adopted by the state of Indiana on May 11, 1917. It was the state's first official flag and has remained unchanged since then except for the creation of a statute to standardize the production of the flag. History To commemorate the state's 1916 centennial, centennial anniversary, the Indiana General Assembly issued a resolution to adopt a state flag. At the request of the General Assembly, a contest was sponsored by the Indiana Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution to design a flag to serve as the official state banner. As an incentive to increase the number of submissions, the contest offered the winner a one hundred dollar cash prize. More than two hundred submissions were received and examined by the Society before a winner was selected. The entry created by Paul Hadley of Mooresville, Indiana, was ultimately chosen as the winner of the contest and the cash prize. On May 31, 1917, the flag was chose ...
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