Mitch Daniels

Mitch Daniels (2009)

Mitchell Elias "Mitch" Daniels Jr. (born April 7, 1949 in Monongahela , Pennsylvania ) is an American politician . He was governor of the state of Indiana from 2005 to 2013 .

Early years

Mitch Daniels spent his youth in Pennsylvania and Georgia . In 1967 he graduated from North Central High School in Indianapolis . Daniels received a bachelor's degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1971. He then went on to study law at Georgetown University . There he passed his law exam in 1979.

Political rise to governor of Indiana

Daniels is a member of the Republican Party. In the 1970s he worked on Richard Lugar's team for his re-election as Mayor of Indianapolis. When Lugar was elected to the US Senate in 1976 , he made Daniels its chief of staff. In 1985, Daniels became political advisor to President Ronald Reagan . In 1987, Daniels returned to Indiana, where he ran the Hudson Institute , a conservative think tank . In 1990 he moved to the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company . During his career there, he defended the blockbuster Prozac against a Scientology campaign . In 2001 President George W. Bush appointed him head of the Office of Management and Budget ; as such, Daniels was a member of the cabinet . In November 2004, he was able to prevail as his party's candidate against incumbent governor Joe Kernan . He was elected the 49th governor of Indiana. He took up his new office on January 1, 2005 and was confirmed in the gubernatorial election on November 4, 2008. Mitchell Daniels has been married to Cheri Lynn Herman since 1978, with whom he has four children; between 1993 and 1997 Cheri was married to another man.

Daniels has been President of Purdue University since 2013 . In 2019 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Web links

Commons : Mitch Daniels - collection of images, videos and audio files

Mitch Daniels in the nndb (English)
National Governors Association (English)

Individual evidence

^ Andrew Ferguson, Ride Along with Mitch. In: The Weekly Standard of June 14, 2010 (accessed November 18, 2014).
↑ Gugin, Linda C. & St. Clair, James E (Eds.): The Governors of Indiana. Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana Historical Society Press . 2006, ISBN 0-87195-196-7 , pp. 404 .

personal data
SURNAME	Daniels, Mitch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Daniels, Mitchell Elias junior (full name); Daniels, Mitch junior (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	April 7, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Monongahela , Pennsylvania

[1] Andrew Ferguson, Ride Along with Mitch. In: The Weekly Standard of June 14, 2010 (accessed November 18, 2014).

[2] Gugin, Linda C. & St. Clair, James E (Eds.): The Governors of Indiana. Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana Historical Society Press . 2006, ISBN 0-87195-196-7 , pp. 404 .