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|state=Indiana

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|terms=January 3, 1977-Present

|terms=January 3, 1977-January 3, 2012

|preceded=Vance Hartke

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'''Richard Green "Dick" Lugar''' (born April 4, 1932) is the senior [[United States]] [[Senator]] from [[Indiana]]. He is the most senior [[Republican]] in the United States Senate and would claim the almost meaningless position of [[President pro tempore]] if Republicans gained the majority during his tenure. '''A big government, foreign interventionalist [[neocon]], Lugar was one of the two most [[liberal]] [[Republican]] senators''', and he lost in a landslide defeat in his own primary in 2012 to a [[conservative]] challenger, [[Richard Mourdock]].

'''Richard Green "Dick" Lugar''' (born April 4, 1932) is the senior [[United States]] [[Senator]] from [[Indiana]]. He is the most senior [[Republican]] in the United States Senate and would claim the almost meaningless position of [[President pro tempore]] if Republicans gained the majority during his tenure. A big government, foreign interventionalist [[neocon]], Lugar was one of the two most [[liberal]] [[Republican]] senators, and he lost in a landslide defeat in his own primary in 2012 to a [[conservative]] challenger, [[Richard Mourdock]].

==Early Life==

==Early Life==

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[[Category:United States Senators]]

[[Category:Former United States Senators]]

[[Category:Republican Party]]

[[Category:Republican Party]]

[[Category:111th United States Congress]]

[[Category:111th United States Congress]]

[[Category:Indiana]]

[[Category:Indiana]]