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The original 1816 Constitution of Indiana provided for the election of a governor and a lieutenant governor every three years, limited to six years out of any nine-year period. [12] The second and current constitution of 1851 lengthened terms to four years and set the commencement of the governor's term on the second Monday in the January ...
Denied a pardon by Governor Jackson, in 1927, he started talking with reporters for the Indianapolis Times and released a list of elected and other officials who had been in the pay of the Klan. This led to a wave of indictments in Indiana, more national scandals, the rapid loss of tens of thousands of members, and the end of the second wave of ...
People who received an official pardon from a governor of a state of the United States, or from a body that acts on behalf of the executive branch in granting pardons, such as a state parole board. Pages in category "Recipients of American gubernatorial pardons"
The entrance to the governor's office in 2009. The governor's powers are established in Article V of the Constitution of Indiana.Constitutionally, the governor has very limited executive authority to manage the government of the state; most exercisable powers over state agencies are held by independently elected cabinet heads.
Warren T. McCray – Governor of Indiana convicted of Mail Fraud in 1924, paroled in 1927; pardoned in 1930 after learning of the KKK's role in his arrest and conviction Thomas W. Miller – former congressman and World War I veteran, convicted of conspiring to defraud the U.S. government in 1927; pardoned in 1933.
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With 32 pardons and 26 commutations as of Monday, he has made greater use of his clemency powers than any governor since progressive stalwart Jim Hunt, who left office in 2001. A ‘very expansive ...
Eric Joseph Holcomb (/ ˈ h oʊ l k əm / HOHL-kəm; [1] born May 2, 1968) [2] is an American politician who served from 2017 to 2025 as the 51st governor of Indiana.A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2016 to 2017 as the 51st lieutenant governor of Indiana under Governor Mike Pence, who left the governorship in 2017 to become the vice president of the United States.