PoliticalGraveyard.com

Politicians in Public Utilities in Indiana
other than communications

John Thomas Beasley (b. 1860) — also known as John Beasley — of Terre Haute, Vigo County, Ind. Born in Sullivan, Sullivan County, Ind., May 29, 1860. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Indiana state house of representatives, 1887-93; president, Indiana Gas Utilities Co.; director, Terre Haute Savings Bank; director, Indianapolis and Terre Haute Railway. Baptist. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Ephraim Beasley and Sarah (Williams) Beasley; married, November 5, 1885, to Cora E. Hoke.   William Chandler (b. 1846) — of Muncie, Delaware County, Ind.; Adrian, Lenawee County, Mich.; Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa County, Mich. Born in Raisin Township, Lenawee County, Mich., April 27, 1846. Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; banker; member of Michigan Republican State Central Committee, 1876; superintendent of the ship canal at Sault Ste. Marie, 1881-85; involved in electric power development; member of Michigan state house of representatives from Chippewa District, 1899-1902. Burial location unknown.   James Putnam Goodrich (1864-1940) — also known as James P. Goodrich — of Winchester, Randolph County, Ind. Born in Winchester, Randolph County, Ind., February 18, 1864. Republican. Lawyer; receiver, Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville Railroad; director, Union Heat, Light and Power Co.; Indiana Republican state chair, 1901-10; delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1904, 1908, 1920 (member, Committee on Permanent Organization), 1924, 1936 (member, Resolutions Committee), 1940; member of Republican National Committee from Indiana, 1912; Governor of Indiana, 1917-21. Presbyterian. Member, Phi Kappa Psi. Died August 15, 1940 (age 76 years, 179 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of John Bell Goodrich and Elizabeth Putnam (Edger) Goodrich; married 1888 to Cora Frist.   See also National Governors Association biography   Books about James P. Goodrich: Benjamin D. Rhodes, James P. Goodrich, Indiana's 'Governor Strangelove' : A Republican's Infatuation With Soviet Russia   John Nathan Hostettler (b. 1961) — also known as John N. Hostettler — of Blairsville, Posey County, Ind. Born in Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Ind., July 19, 1961. Republican. Power plant performance engineer; U.S. Representative from Indiana 8th District, 1995-2007; defeated, 2006; in April 2004, he was detained at Louisville International Airport when he attempted to board a flight with a loaded pistol in his briefcase; pleaded guilty in August to carrying a concealed weapon; candidate for U.S. Senator from Indiana, 2010. Baptist. Still living as of 2015.   Relatives: Father of Matthew Hostettler.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Encyclopedia of American Loons   Daniel E. Karn (1890-1969) — also known as Dan E. Karn — of Jackson, Jackson County, Mich. Born in Miami County, Ind., April 29, 1890. Republican. President, Consumers Power Company, 1950-60; delegate to Michigan state constitutional convention from Jackson County 1st District, 1961-62. Presbyterian. Member, Rotary; Exchange Club. Died in Jackson, Jackson County, Mich., June, 1969 (age 79 years, 0 days). Interment at Woodland Cemetery, Jackson, Mich.   Relatives: Son of Jacob Karn and Mary (Zimmerman) Karn; married to Vivian Vardell Vanderlyn.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   David A. Levy (b. 1953) — of New York. Born in Johnson County, Ind., December 18, 1953. Lawyer; utility company executive; U.S. Representative from New York 4th District, 1993-95; defeated (Conservative), 1994. Jewish. Still living as of 1998.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead.
	The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.
	The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
	Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.
	The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/utilities.html.
	Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
	If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.
Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2023 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 8, 2023.