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Houck was born in Florence, South Carolina and attended McClenaghan High School. Houck received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1956, and was in the United States Army from 1957 to 1958. While in the army, he became a captain in the Judge Advocate General's Corps. He was in private practice in Florence ...
The Indiana Statehouse is the state capitol building of the U.S. state of Indiana. It houses the Indiana General Assembly, the office of the Governor of Indiana, the Indiana Supreme Court, and other state officials. The Statehouse is located in the capital city of Indianapolis at 200 West Washington Street. Built in 1888, it is the fifth ...
The speaker of the Indiana State House of Representatives is the highest official in the Indiana House of Representatives, customarily elected from the ranks of the majority party. As in most Anglophone countries and provinces, the speaker presides over the lower house of the legislature. The current speaker is Todd Huston. [1]
The Arizona State Capitol is now strictly a museum and both the legislature and the governor's office are in nearby buildings. Only Arizona does not have its governor's office in the state capitol, though in Delaware, Ohio, Michigan, Vermont, and Virginia, [1] the offices there are for ceremonial use only.
Four statewide elected officials in Indiana including the attorney general and secretary of state can carry handguns in the state Capitol under a bill that lawmakers revived and sent to Republican ...
Courtland C. Matson: Democratic: March 4, 1881 – March 4, 1889 5th: Elected in 1880. Retired to run for Governor of Indiana. Johnathan McCarty: Jacksonian: March 4, 1831 – March 4, 1833 3rd: Elected in 1831. Redistricted to the 5th district. March 4, 1833 – March 4, 1835 5th: Redistricted from the 3rd district and re-elected in 1833 ...
Historically, the state was a swing state, voting for the national winner all but four times from 1816 to 1912, with the exceptions of 1824, 1836, 1848, and 1876. [9] Nonetheless, half of Indiana's governors in the 20th century were Democrats. Indiana has also elected several Democrats to the Senate in recent years.
Alan F. January and Justin E. Walsh, A Century of Achievement: Black Hoosiers in the Indiana General Assembly, 1881-1986 (Indianapolis, 1986) Justin E. Walsh (1987), The centennial history of the Indiana General Assembly, 1816-1978 , Indiana Historical Bureau – via Indiana Memory (Indiana State Library) .