Mike Braun is a conservative outsider who spent his career as a main street entrepreneur building a business and creating thousands of good-paying Hoosier jobs before being elected to the…

Governor Eric J. Holcomb was the 51st Governor of Indiana. A lifelong Hoosier, Gov. Holcomb is a veteran of the United States Navy, served as the state’s 51st Lt. Governor,…

JONATHAN JENNINGS, Indiana's first governor, was born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, in 1787. His education was limited and attained in the common schools of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.  In 1806, Jennings moved…

RATCLIFF BOON, Indiana's second governor, was born in Franklin County, North Carolina, on January 18, 1781. His education was limited and attained in the common schools of Danville, Kentucky. After…

WILLIAM HENDRICKS, Indiana's third governor, was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, on November 12, 1782. His early education was attained in the common schools in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. In 1810, he graduated from…

JAMES B. RAY, Indiana's fourth governor, was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on February 19, 1794. He studied law in Cincinnati, was admitted to the bar, and established a legal…

NOAH NOBLE, Indiana's fifth governor, was born in Clarke County, Virginia, on January 14, 1794. In the early 1800's, his family migrated to Kentucky, where young Noble was educated in…

DAVID WALLACE, Indiana's sixth governor, was born in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, on April 4, 1799. He graduated from West Point in 1821, and stayed there for an additional two years…

Samuel Bigger, Indiana's seventh governor, was born in Warren County, Ohio, on March 20, 1802. He graduated with honors from Ohio University, earning an A.B. degree in 1825, and an…

JAMES WHITCOMB, Indiana's eighth governor, was born in Windsor, Vermont, on December 1, 1795. After graduating from Transylvania University, Whitcomb studied law, and then established a successful legal career in…

PARIS C. DUNNING, Indiana's ninth governor, was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, on March 15, 1806. He attended an academy in Greensboro, studied medicine in Kentucky, and then studied law…