Mitch Daniels
Mitchell E. "Mitch" Daniels was elected governor of Indiana in 2004 and won a second term in 2008. A Republican, he was widely rumored to be considering a White House bid in 2012, but in May 2011 he announced he would not seek the GOP nomination. Daniels, whose father's grandparents were Syrian immigrants, was born in Pennsylvania and raised in Indiana. He graduated from Princeton University and earned his law degree from Georgetown. While he was in school Daniels interned in Richard Lugar's office while Lugar was mayor of Indianapolis; in 1976 Lugar was elected to the U.S. Senate and Daniels became his chief of staff. Daniels helped Lugar win three re-election campaigns before becoming President Ronald Reagan's chief political advisor in 1985. He returned to Indiana in 1987, working first as CEO of the Hudson Institute think tank, then as president of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly. President George W. Bush brought Daniels back to Washington in 2001, naming him director of the Office of Management and Budget, a position he held until his successful gubernatorial run. One of his first acts as governor was to create a state-leve Office of Management and Budget, tasked with identifying and cutting wasteful spending. As his final term as governor came to a close, Daniels published his second book, "Keeping the Republic: Saving America by Trusting Americans" (2011). His first book, "Notes from the Road" (2004) is a compendium of campaign stories from his first race for elected office. Daniels and his wife Cheri have four daughters.
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