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Allen Lucas "Luke" Messer (born February 27, 1969 in Evansville , Indiana ) is an American politician . Since 2013 he has represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives . He stepped success in the preselection for the US Senate in 2018 and retired from Congress in January of 2019.

Career

Luke Messer attended Wabash College in Crawfordville until 1991 . After a subsequent law degree at Vanderbilt University in Nashville ( Tennessee ) and his admission to the bar in 1994, he began to work in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . He served on the staff of four congressmen in the years that followed. In 1999 he was also an administrative member of the Congressional Committee on Government Reform. From 2001 to 2005 he served as executive director of the Indiana Republican Party. In 2000 and 2010 he was defeated in the primary elections of his party when he sought their nomination for the congressional elections. He was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives from 2003 to 2007 . He then worked for the Ice Miller law firm .

In the 2012 election , Messer was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth congressional constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded Mike Pence , who had been elected governor of Indiana, on January 3, 2013 . In the election, Messer prevailed against the Democrat Brad Bookout with 59 percent of the vote . After two re-elections in 2014 and 2016, his mandate runs until January 3, 2019.

In July 2017, Messer announced that it would apply for the election to the US Senate in November 2018, in which the Democratic mandate holder Joe Donnelly will run again and can expect a difficult election in the conservative Indiana. Messer was in a competitive campaign with Todd Rokita and Mike Braun for nomination within the Republican Party. In April 2018, it became known that Messer, when he was first elected to the state legislature in 2003, had kept silent about the fact that the police had repeatedly noticed him because of drunk driving. His predecessor, Roland Stine, had recently been killed by a drunk driver. He lost 29 percent in the area code on May 8, 2018; the winner, Mike Braun, received 41 percent of the vote, and Messer's fellow Congressman Rokita received 30 percent of the vote. Since Messer did not run for the House of Representatives election in November 2018, he will be leaving on January 3, 2019. The Democrat Jeannine Lake and the Republican Greg Pence , the eldest brother of US Vice President Mike Pence, ran for his successor . Pence finally followed Messer.

Web links

• Web presence at the Congress (English)
• Luke Messer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

supporting documents

1. ^ Simone Pathé: Indiana Rep. Luke Messer Running for Senate. In: Roll Call , July 26, 2017.
2. ^ Kaitlin Lange, Tony Cook: Luke Messer didn't disclose DUIs when he replaced lawmaker killed by drunk driver. In: IndyStar.com , April 19, 2018.
3. ^ Indiana Primary Election Results. In: The New York Times , May 9, 2018.