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Richard Lugar Richard Green Lugar (April 4, 1932 – April 28, 2019) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1977 to 2013. He was a member of the Republican Party. Born in Indianapolis, Lugar graduated from De ...

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from

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(1977–2013), 44th

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(1968–1976), Chairman of the Senate Committees on

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(1985–1987, 2003–2007),

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(1995–2001, 2001) and a candidate for the 1996

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presidential nomination. While in the Senate, Lugar was the 5th most senior U.S. Senator and the longest-serving Republican in this body. Indianapolis mayoral election, 1967: * Richard Lugar (R) - 72,278 (53.3%) * John J. Barton (D) (inc.) - 63,284 (46.7%) Indianapolis mayoral election, 1971: * Richard Lugar (R) (inc.) - 155,164 (60.5%) *

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(D) - 101,367 (39.5%) United States Senate election in Indiana, 1974: *

Birch Bayh Birch Evans Bayh Jr. (; January 22, 1928 – March 14, 2019) was an American Democratic Party politician who served as U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1963 to 1981. He was first elected to office in 1954, when he won election to the Indiana ...

(D) (inc.) - 889,269 (50.73%) * Richard Lugar (R) - 814,117 (46.44%) * Don L. Lee (American) - 49,592 (2.83%) Republican primary for the United States Senate from Indiana, 1976: * Richard Lugar - 393,064 (65.45%) * Edgar D. Whitcomb - 179,203 (29.84%) * William Costas - 28,329 (4.72%) United States Senate election in Indiana, 1976: * Richard Lugar (R) - 1,275,833 (59.03%) *

Vance Hartke Rupert Vance Hartke (May 31, 1919July 27, 2003) was an American politician who served as a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana from 1959 until 1977. Hartke won election to the Senate after serving as the mayor of Evansville, Indiana. I ...

(D) (inc.) - 868,522 (40.19%) * Don L. Lee (American) - 14,321 (0.66%) *

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(U.S. Labor) - 2,511 (0.12%)

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: * Richard Lugar (R) (inc.) - 978,301 (53.83%) * Floyd J. Fithian (D) - 828,400 (45.58%) *

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(American) - 10,586 (0.58%)

United States Senate election in Indiana, 1988 The 1988 United States Senate election in Indiana was held on November 8, 1988. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Richard Lugar was re-elected to a third term. General election Candidates * Richard Lugar, incumbent U.S. Senator (Republican) * ...

: * Richard Lugar (R) (inc.) - 1,430,525 (68.14%) *

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(D) - 668,778 (31.86%) Republican primary for the United States Senate from Indiana, 1994: * Richard Lugar (inc.) - 398,111 (100.00%)

United States Senate election in Indiana, 1994 The 1994 United States Senate election in Indiana was held November 8, 1994. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Richard Lugar was re-elected to a fourth term. Lugar won all but one county. General election Candidates *Mary Catherine Barton (New ...

: * Richard Lugar (R) (inc.) - 1,039,625 (67.35%) *

Jim Jontz James Prather Jontz (December 18, 1951 – April 14, 2007) was an American politician who represented the Indiana's 5th congressional district, comprising rural north central Indiana, centering on Kokomo and Logansport. A Democrat, he served in ...

(D) - 470,799 (30.50%) *

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(LBT) - 17,343 (1.12%) *

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(New Alliance) - 15,801 (1.02%) Iowa Republican straw poll, 1995: *

Bob Dole Robert Joseph Dole (July 22, 1923 – December 5, 2021) was an American politician and attorney who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996. He was the Republican Leader of the Senate during the final 11 years of his te ...

- 2,582 (24.38%) *

Phil Gramm William Philip Gramm (born July 8, 1942) is an American economist and politician who represented Texas in both chambers of Congress. Though he began his political career as a Democrat, Gramm switched to the Republican Party in 1983. Gramm was ...

- 2,582 (24.38%) *

Pat Buchanan Patrick Joseph Buchanan (; born November 2, 1938) is an American paleoconservative political commentator, columnist, politician, and broadcaster. Buchanan was an assistant and special consultant to U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, an ...

- 1,922 (18.15%) *

Lamar Alexander Andrew Lamar Alexander Jr. (born July 3, 1940) is a retired American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 2003 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he also was the 45th governor of Tennessee fro ...

- 1,156 (10.91%) *

Alan Keyes Alan Lee Keyes (born August 7, 1950) is an American politician, political activist, author, and perennial candidate who served as the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1985 to 1987. A member of the Repub ...

- 804 (7.59%) * Morry Taylor - 803 (7.58%) * Richard Lugar - 466 (4.40%) *

Pete Wilson Peter Barton Wilson (born August 23, 1933) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 36th governor of California from 1991 to 1999. A member of the Republican Party, he also served as a United States senator from California bet ...

- 123 (1.16%) *

Bob Dornan Robert Kenneth Dornan (born April 3, 1933) is an American politician and actor from California. A Republican, Dornan served in the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1983 and from 1985 to 1997. He has become well known for publicl ...

- 87 (0.82%) *

Arlen Specter Arlen Specter (February 12, 1930 – October 14, 2012) was an American lawyer, author and politician who served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2011. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from ...

- 67 (0.63%) New Hampshire Republican vice presidential primary, 1996: *

Colin Powell Colin Luther Powell ( ; April 5, 1937 – October 18, 2021) was an American politician, statesman, diplomat, and United States Army officer who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African ...

- 6,414 (25.80%) *

- 4,200 (16.90%) * Scattering - 2,631 (10.58%) *

- 2,113 (8.50%) * Richard Lugar - 1,881 (7.57%) *

- 1,314 (5.29%) *

Steve Forbes Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Jr. (; born July 18, 1947) is an American publishing executive and politician who is the editor-in-chief of ''Forbes'', a business magazine. He is the son of longtime ''Forbes'' publisher Malcolm Forbes and the grandso ...

- 1,220 (4.91%) *

- 1,115 (4.49%) *

Jack Kemp Jack French Kemp (July 13, 1935 – May 2, 2009) was an American politician and a professional football player. A member of the Republican Party from New York, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bu ...

- 970 (3.90%) *

- 930 (3.74%) * Morry Taylor - 710 (2.86%) *

Al Gore Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Gore was the Democratic Part ...

(inc.) - 654 (2.63%) *

- 401 (1.61%) *

Ross Perot Henry Ross Perot (; June 27, 1930 – July 9, 2019) was an American business magnate, billionaire, politician and philanthropist. He was the founder and chief executive officer of Electronic Data Systems and Perot Systems. He ran an inde ...

- 108 (0.43%) *

Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...

- 70 (0.28%) *

Ralph Nader Ralph Nader (; born February 27, 1934) is an American political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney noted for his involvement in consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform causes. The son of Lebanese immigrants to the Un ...

- 69 (0.28%) * Richard P. Bosa - 60 (0.24%) All candidates run as

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Presidential primary for independent voters, 1996: *

(D) (inc.) - 227,120 (51.08%) *

(R) - 125,154 (28.15%) *

(R) - 44,027 (9.90%) *

(R) - 28,618 (6.44%) *

(R) - 6,631 (1.49%) *

(R) - 5,181 (1.17%) *

Lyndon LaRouche Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr. (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2019) was an American political activist who founded the LaRouche movement and its main organization the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC). He was a prominent conspiracy ...

(D) - 3,160 (0.71%) * Richard Lugar (R) - 2,009 (0.45%) *

(R) - 1,665 (0.37%) *

(R) - 1,054 (0.24%) 1996 Republican presidential primaries: *

- 9,024,742 (58.82%) *

- 3,184,943 (20.76%) *

- 1,751,187 (11.41%) *

- 495,590 (3.23%) *

- 471,716 (3.08%) * Richard Lugar - 127,111 (0.83%) * Unpledged delegates - 123,278 (0.80%) *

- 71,456 (0.47%) *

- 42,140 (0.28%) * Morry Taylor - 21,180 (0.14%) Republican primary for the United States Senate from Indiana, 2000: * Richard Lugar (inc.) - 356,888 (100.00%) United States Senate election in Indiana, 2000: * Richard Lugar (R) (inc.) - 1,427,944 (66.56%) * David L. Johnson (D) - 683,273 (31.85%) * Paul Hager (LBT) - 33,992 (1.59%) Republican primary for the United States Senate from Indiana, 2006: * Richard Lugar (inc.) - 297,488 (100.00%)

United States Senate election in Indiana, 2006 The 2006 United States Senate election in Indiana was held November 7, 2006. Incumbent Republican United States Senator Richard Lugar was re-elected to his sixth six-year term with 87.3% of the vote. He did not have a Democratic opponent and on ...

: * Richard Lugar (R) (inc.) - 1,171,553 (87.36%) * Steve Osborn (LBT) - 168,820 (12.59%) * Mark Pool (I) (write-in) - 444 (0.03%) * Jack H. Baldwin (I) (write-in) - 294 (0.02%)

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, 2009: *

Robert Byrd Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.; November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was an American politician and musician who served as a United States senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010. A ...

(D) (inc.) - 58 (58.59%) * Richard Lugar (R) - 41 (41.41%) Republican primary for the United States Senate from Indiana, 2012:http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2012/by_state/IN_US_Senate_0508.html?SITE=CSPANELN&SECTION=POLITICS *

Richard Mourdock Richard Earl Mourdock (born October 8, 1951) is an American politician who served as treasurer of the state of Indiana from 2007 to 2014. Running with the support of the Tea Party movement, he defeated six-term incumbent U.S. Senator Richard Lu ...

- 403,268 (60.58%) * Richard Lugar (inc.) - 262,388 (39.42%)

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