Mitch Daniels

Mitchell Elias " Mitch " Daniels, Jr. ( born April 7, 1949 in Monongahela, Pennsylvania) is an American politician. He was from 2005 to 2013 Governor of the State of Indiana.

Early years

Mitch Daniels spent his youth in Pennsylvania and Georgia. In 1967 he graduated from the North Central High School in Indianapolis. Daniels received a bachelor's degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1971. Subsequently, he studied at Georgetown University law. There he made ​​his law degree in 1979.

Political advancement to the Governor of Indiana

Daniels is a member of the Republican Party. In the 1970s he worked in the team of Richard Lugar on his re- election as mayor of Indianapolis. When Lugar was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1976, he made Daniel to his chief of staff. 1985 Daniels became a political adviser to President Ronald Reagan. 1987 Daniels returned to Indiana, where he headed the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank. In 1990, he joined the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company. During his career there, he defended the blockbuster Prozac against a campaign by Scientology. 2001, President George W. Bush appointed him to head the Office of Management and Budget; as such Daniels was Cabinet Member. In November 2004, he was able to prevail as the candidate of his party against the incumbent Governor Joe Kernan. He was elected the 49th Governor of Indiana. He took up his new post on 1 January 2005 and was confirmed in the gubernatorial election on November 4, 2008. Mitch Daniels is married since 1978 with Cheri Lynn Herman, with whom he has four children; between 1993 and 1997 Cheri was married to another man.