\"Purdue University\" Mitch Daniels Hand Signed 5X7 Color Photo For Sale

Up for sale "Purdue University" Mitch Daniels Hand Signed 5X7 Color Photo. 

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Mitchell Elias Daniels Jr. (born April 7,

1949) is an American academic administrator,

businessman, author, and retired politician. A Republican, Daniels served as the 49th Governor of Indiana from

2005 to 2013. Since 2013, Daniels has been president of Purdue

University. Born in Monongahela, Pennsylvania,

Daniels is a graduate of Princeton University, and

received his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center after studying briefly

at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney

School of Law. Daniels began his career as an assistant to

senator Richard Lugar, working as

his chief of staff in the Senate from 1977 to 1982. He was appointed executive

director of the National

Republican Senatorial Committee when Lugar was chairman from

1983 to 1984. He worked as a chief political adviser and as a liaison to

President Ronald Reagan in

1985, before he was appointed president of a conservative think tank, the Hudson Institute. Daniels then moved back to Indiana,

joining Eli Lilly and Company, working as president of North American

Pharmaceutical Operations from 1993 to 1997, and senior vice president of

corporate strategy and policy from 1997 to 2001. In January 2001, Daniels was

appointed by President George W. Bush as the director of the U.S. Office of Management and

Budget, where he served until June 2003. Daniels announced his

intention to run in Indiana's 2004 gubernatorial election after leaving

the Bush administration.

He won the Republican primary with 67% of the vote, and Kernan in the

general election. Daniels was reelected to a second term, Department Long Thompson, on

November 4, 2008. Raising Hoosier incomes was a key focus of his tenure as

governor. Indiana's real per capita income levels rose

during his time in office, but fell from 33rd to 38th relative to other states

when not adjusted for costs of living. Daniels cut the state government workforce by

18%, cut and capped state property taxes, balanced the state budget and increasing spending by less than

the inflation rate. In

his second term, Daniels saw protest by labor unions and Democrats in the state legislature over his

policies regarding Indiana's school voucher program, privatization of public highways,

and the Indiana House of

Representatives attempt to pass 'right to work' legislation, leading to the 2011 Indiana legislative

walkouts. During the legislature's last session under Daniels, he

signed a 'right-to-work law'; with

Indiana becoming the 23rd state in the nation to do so. It

was widely speculated that Daniels would be a candidate in the 2012

presidential election, but he chose not to run. He is the author of the book Keeping

the Republic: Saving America by Trusting Americans, published by Sentinel, a dedicated

conservative imprint within Penguin Group. Daniels was selected by the Trustees of the

Board of Purdue University, all of

whom he appointed or re-appointed while Governor, to become the university

president after his term as governor ended on January 14, 2013.