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LUGAR, Richard Green

(1932—)

Senate Years of Service: 1977-
Party: Republican

LUGAR, Richard Green, a Senator from Indiana; born in Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind., April 4, 1932; attended the public schools of Indianapolis; graduated, Denison University, Granville, Ohio 1954; attended Pembroke College, Oxford, England, as a Rhodes Scholar and received a graduate degree in 1956; businessman, involved in the manufacturing of food production equipment, livestock and grain operations; United States Navy 1957-1960; member, Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners 1964-1967; mayor, Indianapolis 1968-1975; unsuccessful Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 1974; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1976 and reelected in 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000, and again in 2006 for the term ending January 3, 2013; chair, Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee (Ninety-eighth Congress), Committee on Foreign Relations (Ninety-ninth Congress, One Hundred Eighth and One Hundred Ninth Congresses), Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry (One Hundred Fourth through One Hundred Sixth Congresses, One Hundred Seventh Congress [January 20-June 6, 2001]).


Bibliography

Lugar, Richard. Indianapolis: Crossroads of the American Dream . Memphis, Tenn.: Towery Publishing, 1996; Lugar, Richard. Letters to the Next President . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.

Lugar, Richard G. Adapting NATO’s Deterrent Posture . Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1985.

Lugar, Richard G. “AEPC: A Broader Agenda?” NBR Analysis (November 1993): 60-61.

___. “A Formula for Parenting.” In What My Parents Did Right , compiled and edited by Gloria Gaither. Nashville: Star Song Publishing, 1991.

___. Indianapolis: Crossroads of the American Dream . Memphis, Tenn.: Towery Publishing, 1996.

___. Letters to the Next President . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.

___. “The Republican Course.” Foreign Policy 86 (Spring 1992): 86-98.

___. “A Republican Looks at Foreign Policy.” Foreign Affairs 66 (Winter 1987/1988): 249-62.

___. “Term Limits: A Distracting Diversion.” The World & I (January 1993): 328-33.

Lugar, Richard G., and Sam Nunn. “U.S. Policy Regarding Nuclear Weapons in the Former Soviet Union.” Harvard Journal of World Affairs (Spring 1993): 133-42.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present

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