“Indiana Senator” Vance Hartke Hand Signed 3X5 Card Todd Mueller COA

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“Indiana Senator” Vance Hartke Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Rupert Vance Hartke
(May 31, 1919 – July 27, 2003) was an American politician who served as a
Democratic
United States Senator
from
Indiana
from 1959 until 1977. Hartke won election to the Senate after serving as the mayor of
Evansville, Indiana
. In the Senate, he supported the
Great Society
and became a prominent opponent of the
Vietnam War
. Hartke ran for president in the
1972 Democratic primaries
but withdrew after the first set of primaries. He left the Senate after being defeated in his 1976 re-election campaign by
Richard Lugar
. Hartke was born on May 31, 1919, in
Stendal
,
Pike County, Indiana
, the son of Ida Mary (Egbert), an organist, and Hugo Leonard Hartke, a teacher.
His paternal grandparents were German, as were all of his maternal great-grandparents.
He attended public schools in Stendal. He graduated from Evansville College (now the
University of Evansville
) in 1940, and from 1942 until 1946 Hartke served in the
United States Navy
and
United States Coast Guard
, rising from
seaman
to
lieutenant
. Hartke graduated from the
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
in 1948.