Richard Lugar
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Richard Green Lugar (April 4, 1932 – April 28, 2019), an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1977 to 2013.
He was a member of the Republican Party. Born in Indianapolis, Lugar graduated from Denison University and the University of Oxford.
He served on the Indianapolis Board of Education Commissioners from 1964 to 1967 before being elected to two terms as mayor of Indianapolis from 1968 to 1976.
Lugar was mayor of Kansas in 1971 and gave the keynote address at the 1972 Republican National Convention. Lugar's first attempt for the Senate was in 1974.
He lost to incumbent Democratic senator Birch Bayh in the year's senate elections.
He ran again in 1976, defeating Democratic incumbent Vance Hartke.
Lugar was reelected in 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000, and 2006.
Lugar was defeated in a primary challenge by Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock in 2012, putting an end to his 36-year tenure in the Senate.
Lugar ran for President of the United States in the 1996 primaries, but a lack of success resulted in his departure early in the campaign. During Lugar's tenure, he served as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1985 to 1987, and from 2003 to 2007, serving as the ranking member of the committee from 2007 until his departure in 2013.
Lugar served as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Diet, and Forestry from 1995 to 2001 and then briefly in part of 2001.
Lugar's legislative service tended to the demilitarization of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons around the world, co-sponsoring his most significant piece of legislation with Georgia Senator Sam Nunn: the Nunn–Lugar Act. Lugar founded a non-profit group that specialized in the policy fields he pursued while in office after his service in the Senate.
Personal life and death
On September 8, 1956, Lugar married Charlene Smeltzer. The couple had four sons. He was a member of the United Methodist Church.
Lugar died in Falls Church, Virginia, shortly after his 87th birthday in the form of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Early life, education, and early career
Richard Lugar was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on April 4, 1932, the son of Bertha (née Green) and Marvin Lugar. He was of German descent. Lugar attended Indianapolis Public Schools. During this period, he climbed to the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank in Boy Scouts. Later, he was named winner of the Boy Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. He graduated first in his class at Shortridge High School in 1950 and then Denison University in 1954, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi. As a Rhodes Scholar, he obtained his second bachelor's degree and a master's degree in 1956. Lugar was a member of the Oxford University men's basketball team that captured the 1955 A.B.A. The National Championship is an annual event that takes place in the United States. He served in the United States Navy from 1956 to 1960; one of his positions was as an intelligence briefer for Admiral Arleigh Burke. He was promoted to Lieutenant in the Junior Class.
Lugar owned his family's 604-acre (244 ha) Marion County corn, soybean, and tree farm. He aided his brother Tom, the family's food machinery manufacturing company in Indianapolis, before entering public life.
Post-Senate career
Lugar performed jointly with Lee H. Hamilton at DePauw University on February 15, 2018, as part of the course "Can We Talk?" In the United States and Abroad, restoring Civility in Public and Political Discourse.
Lugar founded The Lugar Center, a non-governmental policy group headquartered in Washington, D.C., following his time in the Senate.
The Lugar Center seeks to become a leading voice on several of the global issues that defined Senator John McCain's work in Congress under Lugar's leadership. Global Food Security, WMD Nonproliferation, Foreign Aid Effectiveness, and Bipartisan Governance are four "focus areas"; one of which is "broadcasting" is discussed. The Lugar Center, which opened in January 2013 as a source of education and information on these timely topics, has served as a center of education and information.
The Center's programs include: the following: the center's initiatives include: the Bipartisan Index was created in collaboration with the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, which worked with the Arms Control Association to develop the Bipartisan Nuclear and WMD Policy Dialogue Project, and the compiling of a comprehensive collection of bibliographical information for researchers and policymakers interested in global food security. In addition, the Lugar Diplomacy Series brings together American policy-makers and the Washington diplomatic community. Elena Kagan, David Petraeus, and Howard Buffett were among the guests.
In addition, the Lugar Center was granted a grant by the Delegation of the European Union to conduct strategic studies into transatlantic cooperation. The grant enabled the center to collaborate with the German Marshall Fund of the United States to focus on increasing trans-Atlantic energy stability and economic cooperation, particularly in relation to the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
