Floyd Fithian

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Floyd Fithian

| image = Floyd Fithian.png

| caption =

| state = Indiana

| district = {{ushr|IN|2|2nd}}

| term_start = January 3, 1975

| term_end = January 3, 1983

| predecessor = Earl Landgrebe

| successor = Philip Sharp

| birth_name = Floyd James Fithian

| birth_date = {{birth date|1928|11|03}}

| birth_place = Vesta, Nebraska, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2003|06|27|1928|11|03}}

| death_place = Annandale, Virginia, U.S.

| restingplace = Arlington National Cemetery

| party = Democratic

| otherparty =

| father =

| mother =

| spouse = Marjorie Heim

| children = 3{{cite news |title=Floyd Fithian; Former Congressman, 76 |work=The New York Times |date=July 7, 2003 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/07/us/floyd-fithian-former-congressman-76.html |access-date=16 January 2020}}

| relatives =

| education = Peru State College (BA)
University of Nebraska (PhD)

| signature =

| allegiance = United States

| branch = United States Navy
United States Navy Reserve

| serviceyears = 1951–1955 (active duty)
1955–1971 (reserve duty)

| rank = commander

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Floyd James Fithian (November 3, 1928{{spnd}}June 27, 2003) was an American educator and politician who served as a United States Representative from Indiana as a Democrat.{{cite web | url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000161 | title =Fithian, Floyd James, (1928–2003) | publisher =congress.gov | access-date =February 23, 2013}} He was one of the forty nine Watergate Babies who won election to the House of Representatives in the wake of the Watergate scandal during the 1974 House elections with Fithian himself defeating Earl Landgrebe, who became infamous for his stalwart defense of President Richard Nixon. He was one of the fourteen members of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) and believed that the Kennedy assassination in 1963 was orchestrated by members of organized crime.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41011949/the_star_press/ |title=Ex-Congressman Sure of Mafia Involvement in Assassination |date=27 January 1992 |work=The Star Press |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224085007/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41011949/the_star_press/ |archive-date=24 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=6 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Early life

Floyd James Fithian was born in Vesta, Nebraska on November 3, 1928, and graduated from Vesta High School in 1947.{{cite web | url=http://www4.lib.purdue.edu/archon/?p=creators/creator&id=44 |title =Fithian, Floyd J. (1928 - 2003) | publisher = Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections | author =Purdue University | author-link =Purdue University | access-date =February 22, 2013}} In 1951, he became the first in his family to graduate from college when he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Peru State College in Peru, Nebraska. He enlisted into the United States Navy in the same year and rose to the rank of lieutenant by the time he left in 1955.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41008456/journal_and_courier/ |title=For County Councilman-At-Large |date=31 October 1970 |work=Journal and Courier |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224052422/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41008456/journal_and_courier/ |archive-date=24 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=32 |via=Newspapers.com}} However, he continued to serve in the United States Navy Reserve, retiring in 1971 as a commander.{{cite web | url =http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Former+Indiana+Congressman+Floyd+Fithian+Passed+Away+Over+the+Weekend.-a0104534983 | title =Former Indiana Congressman Floyd Fithian Passed Away Over the Weekend. | publisher =thefreelibrary.com | author =PR Newswire | author-link =PR Newswire | date =June 30, 2003 | access-date =February 23, 2013 | archive-date =November 29, 2014 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20141129092509/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Former+Indiana+Congressman+Floyd+Fithian+Passed+Away+Over+the+Weekend.-a0104534983 | url-status =dead }}

While in the navy, Fithian was able to attend the University of Nebraska, where he received his Master of Arts in 1955 and, after teaching at a high school from 1956 to 1959, a Ph.D. in American history in 1964 from the same institution.{{cite web | url =http://www.fca.gov/Download/Newsline/newslinefeb1999.pdf | title =Farm Credit Administration News | publisher =fca.gov | author =Farm Credit Administration | author-link =Farm Credit Administration | date =February 12, 1999 | access-date =February 23, 2013 | archive-date =February 17, 2013 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20130217153025/http://www.fca.gov/Download/Newsline/newslinefeb1999.pdf | url-status =dead }} He taught briefly at Nebraska Wesleyan University and moved to Lafayette, Indiana in 1964 to become an associate professor of history at Purdue University.{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/07/us/floyd-fithian-former-congressman-76.html | title =Floyd Fithian; Former Congressman, 76 | website =The New York Times | date =July 7, 2003 | access-date =February 23, 2013}} During his time at Purdue, he managed and operated a small farm in Tippecanoe County.{{cite book|author1=United States. Congress|author2=Andrew R. Dodge|author3=Betty K. Koed|author3-link=Betty K. Koed|title=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005: The Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States, from the First Through the One Hundred Eighth Congresses, March 4, 1789, to January 3, 2005, Inclusive|year=2005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v9MBIctdjjkC&q=floyd+fithian+vesta+nebraska&pg=PA10566|access-date=February 23, 2013|publisher=Government Printing Office|isbn=978-0-16-073176-1|page=1056}}

Career

=Early politics=

During the 1968 presidential election he served as an associate Tippecanoe County coordinator for Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign. Afterwards he served as an associate Tippecanoe County coordinator for Birch Bayh's reelection campaign in Indiana's Senate race.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41011174/the_times/ |title=Fithian To Seek Election |date=5 November 1973 |work=The Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224073517/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41011174/the_times/ |archive-date=24 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=8 |via=Newspapers.com}}

During the 1970 midterm elections he served as Tippecanoe County coordinator for Philip A. Sprague's house campaign against incumbent Republican Earl Landgrebe and as president of the 2nd District Win-Dems organization.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41008443/journal_and_courier/ |title=Landgrebe Not To Debate, Sprague Says |date=15 September 1970 |work=Journal and Courier |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224053018/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41008443/journal_and_courier/ |archive-date=24 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=8 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41009020/journal_and_courier/ |title=The Democratic |date=29 April 1970 |work=Journal and Courier |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224054255/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41009020/journal_and_courier/ |archive-date=24 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=4 |via=Newspapers.com}} Landgrebe narrowly defeated Sprague in the general election by only 1,204 votes, but he was the first Democratic congressional nominee to win Tippecanoe County since the 1930s.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41008895/journal_and_courier/ |title=Landgrebe's Margin Climbs to 1,434 Votes |date=4 November 1970 |work=Journal and Courier |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224053825/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41008895/journal_and_courier/ |archive-date=24 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}} He was also selected to be one of the Democratic nominees for Tippecanoe County's three council seats by the county Democratic Central Committee, but came in fourth place.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41009069/journal_and_courier/ |title=Demos Slate Candidates For At-Large County Councilmen |date=24 July 1970 |work=Journal and Courier |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224054543/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41009069/journal_and_courier/ |archive-date=24 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=26 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41009185/journal_and_courier/ |title=For County Councilmen-At-Large |date=4 November 1970 |work=Journal and Courier |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224054921/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41009185/journal_and_courier/ |archive-date=24 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}

=United States House of Representatives=

Fithian ran for Indiana's Second Congressional District during the 1972 elections and won the Democratic nomination. In the general election Landgrebe easily defeated him by riding off of the coattails of Richard Nixon's landslide victory in the 1972 presidential election and in Indiana where he received 66.1% of the vote statewide against George McGovern and received 72,000 more votes than Landgrebe in the second congressional district.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40921758/videttemessenger_of_porter_county/ |title=Invitation Is Effort To Dodge Issues: Fithian |date=29 July 1974 |work=Vidette-Messenger of Porter County |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222082441/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40921758/videttemessenger_of_porter_county/ |archive-date=22 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}

During the Watergate scandal Landgrebe was a stalwart defender of Nixon, explaining his refusal to listen to or read the transcript of the "smoking gun" tape that was released on August 5, 1974, and documented Nixon's complicity in the Watergate coverup, by stating, "Don't confuse me with the facts. I've got a closed mind. I will not vote for impeachment. I'm going to stick with my president even if he and I have to be taken out of this building and shot."{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1986/07/01/obituaries/1a979939-0198-4aaf-9945-71e239df1e36 |title=Obituaries |date=1 July 1986 |newspaper=The Washington Post}} Landgrebe received a massive backlash from voters in his district for his support of Nixon and was resoundingly defeated in the 1974 election in a rematch with Fithian. Fithian easily defeated Landgrebe in a landslide with 101,856 votes to 64,950 votes becoming the first Democratic candidate to win in Indiana's Second Congressional district since George R. Durgan in the 1932 elections when the Democrats also saw a landslide victory nationally.

In the 1976 elections the Indiana Republican Party ran a slate of candidates to defeat Fithian in the general election and retake the formerly strong Republican seat and chose Assistant Secretary of Agriculture William Erwin out of a five-man primary.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41047126/journal_and_courier/ |title=Ex-Hoosier Congressman Dies |date=3 November 1976 |work=Journal and Courier |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191225072207/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41047126/journal_and_courier/ |archive-date=25 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=12 |via=Newspapers.com}} However, Fithian won reelection with 54.6% of the vote against Erwin. In the 1978 elections Fithian saw his second largest margin of victory, behind his victory against Landgrebe in 1974 due to the Watergate scandal hurting Republicans, due to Republicans running Jay Philip Oppenheim, a failed primary candidate in the district from the 1976 attempt to unseat Fithian, who had little name recognition and with William Costas, a Republican turned independent, taking votes from Oppenhiem gave Fithian a 20.3% margin of victory. Despite the Republicans performing well nationally in the 1980 elections and in Indiana, Fithian was able to win reelection by 8%.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41047269/the_south_bend_tribune/ |title=Republican landslide fails to topple Floyd Fithian |date=5 November 1980 |work=The South Bend Tribune |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191225073538/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41047269/the_south_bend_tribune/ |archive-date=25 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=16 |via=Newspapers.com}}

In 1975 he introduced a balanced budget constitutional amendment, but it failed to gain any traction. In 1977 he supported the Torrijos–Carter Treaties which would give control of the Panama Canal to Panama in 1999 despite the majority of his district being against it.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40998893/journal_and_courier/ |title=Floyd Fithian: A man of his times |date=10 July 2003 |work=Journal and Courier |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224011135/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40998893/journal_and_courier/ |archive-date=24 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=9 |via=Newspapers.com}} In 1976 he sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld asking him to demand former Air Force Undersecretary James W. Plummer's resignation as executive vice president of Lockheed Corporation due to the conflict of interests that would be created.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41011458/videttemessenger_of_porter_county/ |title=Should Demand Resignation, Says Fithian |date=22 July 1976 |work=Vidette-Messenger of Porter County |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224075509/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41011458/videttemessenger_of_porter_county/ |archive-date=24 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}} In 1982 he reintroduced the Equal Rights Amendment which had failed to be ratified by 38 states before its deadline, but it failed to pass.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41035618/the_indianapolis_star/ |title=Fithian, others to reintroduce ERA |date=10 July 1982 |work=The Indianapolis Star |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224234830/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41035618/the_indianapolis_star/ |archive-date=24 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=22 |via=Newspapers.com}}

During his tenure, Fithian served on the House Small Business Committee, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the House Committee on Agriculture and the House Committee on Government Operations where he served on the House Select Committee on Assassinations to investigate the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.{{cite web | url=https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/title-page.html | title =Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives | publisher =archives.gov | author =National Archives and Records Administration | author-link =National Archives and Records Administration | date =March 29, 1979 | access-date =February 23, 2013}}

=1982 U.S. Senate election=

In 1982 Indiana lost a congressional district after the 1980 Census. Fithian's district was split between three more conservative districts. Fithian criticized the reapportionment and brought up that according to the apportionment formula Indiana was entitled to 10.574 congressional districts and New Mexico was entitled to 2.505 congressional districts yet despite the Indianan figure being higher Indiana was losing a district and New Mexico was gaining a district.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41034825/the_times/ |title=Indiana Loses 1 District |date=12 July 1981 |work=The Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224232533/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41034825/the_times/ |archive-date=24 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=56 |via=Newspapers.com}}

On July 13, 1981, Fithian announced that he would retire from the House and would not seek reelection in either the 3rd, 5th, or 7th congressional districts or challenge Senator Richard Lugar and would instead run for Secretary of State.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41035024/palladiumitem/ |title=Fithian has plans, but few would help state |date=15 July 1981 |work=Palladium-Item |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224233119/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41035024/palladiumitem/ |archive-date=24 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=20 |via=Newspapers.com}} However, on February 16, 1982, he announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for Senator to challenge Lugar in the 1982 election.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41035366/journal_and_courier/ |title=Lugar files candidacy |date=17 February 1982 |work=Journal and Courier |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224234207/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41035366/journal_and_courier/ |archive-date=24 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com}} In the Democratic primary he faced Indiana State Senator Michael Kendall, who he earlier encouraged to run for the Senate who he defeated with 59% of the vote.{{cite web | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19820505&id=TeVPAAAAIBAJ&pg=4304,5218468 | title =Senate Candidates Chosen in Indiana | agency =Associated Press | date =May 5, 1982 | access-date =February 22, 2013}}

On November 2, 1982, he was defeated by Lugar who won with 54% of the vote against Fithian's 46% and won by 149,901 votes.

=Post-House career=

After his defeat he served as Chief of Staff for Illinois Senator Paul Simon from 1983 to 1992, and worked as the campaign manager for Simon's 1988 presidential campaign. Fithian also worked for Senator Lloyd Bentsen as the finance director when he was the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee from 1983 to 1985.{{cite web | url=http://articles.philly.com/1988-07-13/news/26235814_1_texas-senator-dukakis-lloyd-millard-bentsen/2 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411151653/http://articles.philly.com/1988-07-13/news/26235814_1_texas-senator-dukakis-lloyd-millard-bentsen/2 | url-status=dead | archive-date=April 11, 2013 | title =Aristocrat Respected As Legislator | publisher =philly.com | website =The Philadelphia Inquirer | date =July 13, 1988 | access-date =February 23, 2013}} After working for Simon, he joined the Department of Agriculture working as Secretary of the Farm Credit Administration.{{cite web | url =http://www.fca.gov/preambles_historical.nsf/4da2e7d1cb5aee2a852565a8006489ba/69c1bc4081beaf858525698800559981?OpenDocument | title =Policy Statement – Financial Institution Rating System [BM-9-APR-98-02] | publisher =fca.gov | author =Farm Credit Administration | author-link =Farm Credit Administration | date =April 22, 1998 | access-date =February 23, 2013 | url-status =dead | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20120925051311/http://www.fca.gov/preambles_historical.nsf/4da2e7d1cb5aee2a852565a8006489ba/69c1bc4081beaf858525698800559981?OpenDocument | archive-date =September 25, 2012 }} In 1991 Oliver Stone's JFK, a political thriller based on the investigation into the Kennedy assassination by Jim Garrison, to critical acclaim although it was criticized for its historical inaccuracies and Floyd criticized the film for its manipulation of the past. On March 14, 2003, he joined seventy two other former congressmembers and signed a letter asking President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair to give more time to the United Nations inspectors in Iraq.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41004240/journal_and_courier/ |title=Fithian/Stayed active in politics |date=1 July 2003 |work=Journal and Courier |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224032918/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41004240/journal_and_courier/ |archive-date=24 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=8 |via=Newspapers.com}}

On June 27, 2003, Fithian died at his retirement home in Annandale, Virginia after suffering from Parkinson's disease and was interred in Arlington National Cemetery.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41004249/the_indianapolis_star/ |title=Floyd Fithian, professor and former congressman |date=1 July 2003 |work=The Indianapolis Star |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224032135/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41004249/the_indianapolis_star/ |archive-date=24 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=12 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41004691/the_times/ |title=Floyd Fithian, former local congressman, dead at 76 |date=2 July 2003 |work=The Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224033150/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41004691/the_times/ |archive-date=24 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=101 |via=Newspapers.com}}[https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/#/arlington-national/search/results/1/CgdmaXRoaWFuEgVmbG95ZA--/ Burial Detail: Fithian, Floyd James] – ANC Explorer

Electoral history

{{hidden begin|toggle=left|title=Floyd Fithian electoral history}}

{{Election box begin|title = 1972 Indiana Second Congressional District election{{Cite news |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=53849 |title=IN District 2 1972 |date=5 January 2018}}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Republican Party (United States)

|candidate = Earl Landgrebe (incumbent)

|votes = 110,406

|percentage = 54.7%

|change = +4.3%

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Democratic Party (United States)

|candidate = Floyd Fithian

|votes = 91,533

|percentage = 45.3%

|change = -4.3%

}}

{{Election box total

|votes = 201,939

|percentage = 100.0%

|change =

}}

{{Election box begin|title = 1974 Indiana Second Congressional District election{{Cite news |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=31992 |title=IN District 2 1974 |date=4 December 2017}}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Democratic Party (United States)

|candidate = Floyd Fithian

|votes = 101,856

|percentage = 61.1%

|change = +15.7%

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Republican Party (United States)

|candidate = Earl Landgrebe (incumbent)

|votes = 64,950

|percentage = 38.9%

|change = -15.3%

}}

{{Election box total

|votes = 166,806

|percentage = 100.0%

|change =

}}

{{Election box begin|title = 1976 Indiana Second Congressional District election{{Cite news |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=31160 |title=IN District 2 1976 |date=27 June 2003}}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Democratic Party (United States)

|candidate = Floyd Fithian (incumbent)

|votes = 117,617

|percentage = 54.6%

|change = -6.3%

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Republican Party (United States)

|candidate = William Erwin

|votes = 95,605

|percentage = 44.5%

|change = +5.6%

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = American Party (1969)

|candidate = James Hensley Logan

|votes = 1,623

|percentage = 0.8%

|change = +0.8%

}}

{{Election box total

|votes = 214,845

|percentage = 100.0%

|change =

}}

{{Election box begin|title = 1978 Indiana Second Congressional District election{{Cite news |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=31525 |title=IN District 2 1978 |date=29 June 2003}}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Democratic Party (United States)

|candidate = Floyd Fithian (incumbent)

|votes = 82,402

|percentage = 56.5%

|change = +1.8%

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Republican Party (United States)

|candidate = Jay Philip Oppenheim

|votes = 52,842

|percentage = 36.3%

|change = -8.3%

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Independent (politician)

|candidate = William Costas

|votes = 9,368

|percentage = 6.4%

|change = +6.4%

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = American Party (1969)

|candidate = James Hensley Logan

|votes = 1,166

|percentage = 0.8%

|change = +0.0%

}}

{{Election box total

|votes = 145,778

|percentage = 100.0%

|change =

}}

{{Election box begin|title = 1980 Indiana Second Congressional District election{{Cite news |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=49203 |title=IN District 2 1980 |date=21 April 2016}}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Democratic Party (United States)

|candidate = Floyd Fithian (incumbent)

|votes = 122,326

|percentage = 54.1%

|change = -2.5%

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Republican Party (United States)

|candidate = Ernest Niemeyer

|votes = 103,957

|percentage = 45.9%

|change = +9.7%

}}

{{Election box total

|votes = 226,283

|percentage = 100.0%

|change =

}}

{{Election box open primary begin no change|title = 1982 Indiana Senate election}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

|party = Democratic Party (United States)

|candidate = Floyd Fithian

|votes = 262,644

|percentage = 59.5%

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change

|party = Democratic Party (United States)

|candidate = Michael Kendall

|votes = 178,702

|percentage = 40.5%

}}

{{Election box total no change

|votes = 441,346

|percentage = 100.0%

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

|party = Republican Party (United States)

|candidate = Richard Lugar (incumbent)

|votes = 978,301

|percentage = 53.8%

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change

|party = Democratic Party (United States)

|candidate = Floyd Fithian

|votes = 828,400

|percentage = 45.6%

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change

|party = American Party (1969)

|candidate = Raymond James

|votes = 10,586

|percentage = 0.6%

}}

{{Election box total no change

|votes = 1,817,287

|percentage = 100.0%

}}

References

External links

{{cite web | url=http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/fjfithian.htm | title =Floyd James Fithian Commander, United States Navy; Member of Congress | date =August 30, 2023 | publisher =ArlingtonCemetery.net | id=An unofficial website}}{{Unreliable source?|date=December 2020|reason=WP:SPS, copies from news reports & obits w/o attribution}}

{{s-ttl|title=Democratic nominee for U.S. Senator from Indiana
(Class 1)|years=1982}}

{{succession box|

title=U.S. Representative of Indiana's 2nd Congressional District|

before=Earl F. Landgrebe|

years=1975–1983|

after=Philip R. Sharp}}

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