Indiana Republican Party: Difference between revisions

| name = Republican Party of Indiana

| logo = Indiana Republican Party logo.png

| colorcode = #FAAE41

| chairperson = Kyle[[Randall Head|Randy HupferHead]]

| leader1_title = Governor of Indiana

| leader1_name = [[Eric Holcomb]]

| leader2_title = Senate Leader

| leader2_name = Lt. Gov. [[Suzanne Crouch]]

| leader3_title = House Leader

| leader3_name = Speaker Todd Huston

| merger = [[People's Party (Indiana)|People's Party]]

| headquarters = 101 W. Ohio Street <br /> Indianapolis, Indiana 46204

| student_wing = Indiana Federation of College Republicans

| ideology = [[Conservatism in the United States|Conservatism]]<br>[[Fiscal conservatism]]<br> = [[Social conservatismConservatism in the United States|Social conservatismConservatism]]

| colors = {{Color box|{{Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}}} [[Red states and blue states|Red]]= {{small|(customary)}}<br/>{{Color box|#FAAE41}} {{Color box|blue}} [[Gold (colour)|Gold]], [[blue]]

| seats1_title = United States Senate delegation

| seats1 = {{Composition bar|2|2|hex=#FAAE41}}

| seats2_title = United States House of Representatives delegation

| seats2 = {{Composition bar|7|9|hex=#FAAE41}}

| seats3_title = Executive Offices

| seats3 = {{Composition bar|7|7|hex=#FAAE41}}

| seats4_title = [[Indiana State Senate]]

| seats4 = {{Composition bar|39|50|hex=#FAAE41}}

| seats5_title = [[Indiana House of Representatives]]

| seats5 = {{Composition bar|7170|100|hex=#FAAE41}}

| website = {{urlURL|httphttps://www.indgopindiana.orggop/}}

| country = Indiana

The '''Indiana Republican Party''' is the affiliate of the [[Republican Party (United States)|United States Republican Party]] in the state of [[Indiana]]. The chairman of the Indiana Republican State Committee is KyleAnne HupferHathaway.

[[File:Oliver Hazard Perry Morton - Brady-Handy.jpg|thumb|upright|Governor [[Oliver P. Morton]]]] A backlash followed the issuance of the emancipationEmancipation Proclamation, leading to a defeat of Republicans in the 1862 mid-termmidterm elections. Morton feared that the Democratic majority in the General Assembly would be sympathetic to the [[Confederacy (American Civil War)|Confederacy]], so he began to take steps to circumvent the General Assembly and mobilize Indiana in the war effort.<ref>Gugin and St. Clair (eds.), ''The Governors of Indiana,'' pg. 153.</ref> When Morton stepped beyond the scope of his constitutional powers by establishing a state arsenal, the Democratic legislature moved to switch command of the militia from himthe Governor to themselvesthe General Assembly. Fearing that with control of the militia, the Democrats would attempt to secede from the Union, Morton helped Republican legislators to flee to Kentucky and prevent a [[quorum]].<ref>Foulke, ''Life of Oliver P. Morton,'' pp. 237, 325.</ref> Unable to pass appropriations bills, the paralyzed government of Indiana teetered on bankruptcy until Morton once again stepped out of the scope of his powers and acquired millions of dollars in federal and private loans to keep the government running, support Indiana's role in the war effort, and circumvent the Democratic Assembly.<ref>Ralph D. Gray, '' Indiana History: A Book of Readings.'' Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995; pg. 163.</ref>

For the remainder of the Civil War, Morton made efforts to keep Indiana secure by suppressing elements he saw as anti-union or sympathetic to the South. The searches, arrests, and even disruption of the Democratic State Convention (in what would later be called the [[Battle of Pogue's Run]]) earned Morton much criticism and was called a "dictator" and "underhanded mobster". As the war ended and the Republican Party received an overwhelming majority in the government, Morton's questionable conduct during the war were madewas moot and he continued to serve a second term in the US Senate until 1877.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080311131945/http://www.centerforhistory.org/indiana_history_main5.html Indiana History, Part 5], Northern Indiana Center for History.</ref>

The party's darkest stain was after the [[World War I|First World War]], following a rush of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe into the United States. By this period of time, the Indiana Republican Party, like the Republican Party elsewhere, had given up its former goal of African -American rights and shared little in common with the Republican Party of the 1850s-1870s. Unlike the first [[Ku Klux Klan]] that rose in the South during the [[Reconstruction era]] to terrorize both white and black Republicans, thisthe new Klan that started in Georgia in 1915 was a highly [[Nativism (politics)#in the United States|nativist]] organization that hid its racism in a cloak of family values and patriotism. Staunchly anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, antisemitic, and prejudiced against African Americans, the new Klan spread into Indiana in the 1920s under [[Grand Dragon]] [[D.C. Stephenson]].<ref name="autogenerated1">[{{cite web|url=http://www.iub.edu/~imaghist/for_teachers/mdrnprd/lstmp/Klan.html]|title = Indiana University Bloomington}}</ref> The second KKK was almost exclusively Republican in Midwestern states such as Indiana as well as Northernin northern and Westernwestern states such as Maine and Colorado, although the KKK remained exclusively Democratic in the South. Under Stephenson's leadership, the Klan flourished in Indiana and took over both the Governor's Office and much of the Republican Party in the General Assembly.<ref>Gray, '' Indiana History,'' pg. 306.</ref> With over 250,000 white males (approximately forty-percent of Indiana's population) paying their Klan dues in Indiana, Stephenson amassed a fortune estimated from two to five million dollars.<ref>David Bodenhamer, ''The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis.'' Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994; pg. 879.</ref> In 1922. the Klan-dominated General Assembly passed a Klan Day in the [[Indiana State Fair]], but Republican Governor [[Warren T. McCray]] vetoed the bill, earning the ire of Stephenson and the Klan.

In the 1924 Republican primary elections in Indiana, almost all candidates nominated for statewide office were Klansmen. One African -American newspaper statedsaid, "the Ku Klux Klan has captured boot and breeches, the Republican party in Indiana and have [sic] turned what has been historically an organization of constitutional freedom into an agency for the promotion of religious and racial hate. Nobody now denies the Ku Klux Klan is the dominating power in Indiana Republican politics. In fact, the Republican party exists in Indiana today only in name. Its place has been usurped by the Klan purposes and leadership and issues." Most Indiana blacks in 1924 cast their first -ever ballot for the Democratic Party, which had passed a resolution denouncing the KKK in its platform, though without mentioning the Klan by name.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/10462/14635|title = The Political Realignment of Black Voters in Indianapolis, 1924|journal = Indiana Magazine of History|date = June 1983|last1 = Giffin|first1 = William W.}}</ref> Blacks in other areas of the United States, in contrast, generally remained Republican until the following decade1930s. Despite the influx of blacks into the Democratic party, Klansmen won most of the Indiana legislature and most statewide offices in the November 1924 general elections. However, once in office, the Klan-controlled legislature passed little to no anti-black, anti-Jewish, or anti-Catholic legislation.

InThe 1922, when the Klan-dominated General Assembly tried to pass a Klan Day in the [[Indiana State Fair]], Republican Governor [[Warren T. McCray]] vetoed the bill and earned the irepeak of Stephenson and the Klan. The peak of their's power and influence was in 1925the early 1920s, when the Klan had Governor McCray arrested, imprisoned, and thrown out of office on a charge of mail fraud and replaced with. Republican Governor [[Edward L. Jackson|Edward Jackson]], whoa KKK member was aelected KKKin memberthe 1924 election. Stephenson isbecame infamous for his words "I am the law in Indiana."<ref>M. William Lutholtz, ''Grand Dragon: D. C. Stephenson and the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana.'' West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1991; pg. ???</ref>

The Klan quickly fell apart under the revelation that Stephenson had abducted, raped, and murdered Madgea young Oberholtzerwoman. More of a populist organization that believed in the Klan's image of defending the race and "Protestant Womanhood," the Klan's power and influence in both Indiana and its politics dissolved quickly. Governor Jackson refused to pardon Stephensonhis forold Oberholtzer'sally deathStephenson, so Stephenson retaliated from prison by revealing evidence that Jackson had received bribes from the Klan. Despite calls for his resignation for being associated with the Klan, Jackson's trial resulted in a [[hung jury]].<ref>http: name="autogenerated1"//www.iub.edu/~imaghist/for_teachers/mdrnprd/lstmp/Klan.html</ref>

The first section of the platform states that the liberties guaranteed to us in the Constitution and Bill of Rights must be protected from erosion by government. The platform then states a commitment to "protecting and defending our U.S. and Indiana Constitutions," "fiscal responsibility," "federalism," "strong family structures," "individual responsibility," "personal liberty and freedom," "free and fair elections" and "volunteerism."<ref name="indgop1">{{cite web|title=Indiana Republican Party Platform, 2012|url=http://indgop.org/ContentFiles/476/2012%20Platform.pdf|access-date=26 January 2014}}</ref>

The party also believes that "strong families are the foundation of virtue and that such families bring forth citizens capable of self-government as well as properly motivated public servants so essential for a successful republic."<ref>{{cite web|titlename=Indiana Republican Party Platform, 2012|url=http://indgop.org/ContentFiles/476/2012%20Platform.pdf|access-date=26 January 2014}}<"indgop1"/ref>

One amendment was approved and added at the 2012 State Convention; "The Indiana Republican Party shall seek transparency, accountability and fairness in all levels of government, including a comprehensive audit of the Federal Reserve."<ref>{{cite web|titlename=Indiana Republican Party Platform, 2012|url=http://indgop.org/ContentFiles/476/2012%20Platform.pdf|access-date=26 January 2014}}<"indgop1"/ref>

*[[Trey Hollingsworth]], |[[Indiana's 9th2nd congressional district|9th District2nd]]

*[[Secretary of State of Indiana|Secretary of State]]: [[ConnieDiego LawsonMorales (politician)|Diego Morales]]

*[[Indiana State Treasurer|Treasurer]]: [[KellyDaniel MitchellElliott (Indiana politician)|Daniel Elliott]]

*[[Indiana State Auditor|Auditor]]: [[TeraElise KlutzNieshalla]]

*Thomas A. Gallmeyer (1961–1962)<ref>{{Citecite web|url=http://indystar.newspapers.com/search/#query=Thomas+A.+Gallmeyer&dr_year=1961-1961|title = Search}}</ref>

*H. Dale Brown (1962–1963)<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bg13QcMSsq8C&q=H.+Dale+Brown+Indiana+Republican+Party&pg=PA359 |title = The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis|isbn = 0253112494|last1 = Bodenhamer|first1 = David J.|last2 = Barrows|first2 = Robert G.|date = 1994-11-22| publisher=Indiana University Press }}</ref>

*Robert N. Stewart (1963–1965)<ref>{{Citecite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/146162694/|title = The Republic from Columbus, Indiana on June 22, 2015 · Page 4| date=22 June 2015 }}</ref>

*Charles O. Hendricks (1965–1967)<ref>{{Citecite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/indystar/obituary.aspx?n=charles-o-hendricks&pid=144831845|title = Charles O. Hendricks Obituary (2007) the Indianapolis Star|website = [[Legacy.com]]}}</ref>

*James T. Neal (1972–1973)<ref>{{Citecite web|url=http://mediaschool.indiana.edu/ijhf/james-t-neal|title=Neal, James T|date=28 January 1990}}</ref>

*Thomas S. Milligan (1973–1977)<ref>{{Citecite web|url=https://www.rhsalum.org/alumni/135-2/|title = Richmond High School Alulmni Association}}</ref>

*Keith Luse (1989–1991)<ref>{{Citecite web|url=https://www.ncnk.org/staff/w.-keith-luse|title = Keith Luse}}</ref>

*Rexford C. Early (1991–1993)<ref>{{cite web|author=Stocks |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=597443&privcapId=4976517&previousCapId=5034896&previousTitle=Central%20Indiana%20Community%20Foundation |title=Stocks |publisher=Bloomberg |date= |accessdate=2022-05-02}}</ref>

*Mike McDaniel (1995–2002)<ref>{{Citecite web|url=http://www.kriegdevault.com/our_professionals/michael-mcdaniel|title = Michael D. McDaniel}}</ref>

*[[Tim Berry (politician)|Tim Berry]] (2013–2015)<ref>http://www.in.gov/library/files/HPI131010.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>

*Kyle Hupfer (2017–2017–2023)

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