Richard G. Lugar, born in 1932, Republican member of the United States Senate from Indiana (1977- ). Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Lugar earned a bachelor’s degree from Denison University in 1954. He attended the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, receiving a master’s degree in 1956. Lugar served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy from 1957 to 1960. Before he entered politics—he won a seat on the Indianapolis School Board in 1964—Lugar ran the family tool business. He went on to serve as the mayor of Indianapolis from 1968 to 1975. Lugar lost his first bid for the U.S. Senate in 1974, but won comfortably in the 1976 election against incumbent Vance Hartke. He was reelected in subsequent elections.

Lugar entered the Republican presidential primaries in the 1996 campaign. He did not win any of the Republican primaries and withdrew from the race in March 1996.