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Earl Fredrick Landgrebe (January 21, 1916 – June 29, 1986) was a Republican congressman from Indiana's 2nd congressional district, succeeding longtime conservative GOP leader Charles A. Halleck. He served several terms before being defeated in the wake of Watergate.
Landgrebe was previously a member of the Indiana State Senate.
U.S. House of Representatives
Following the announced retirement of Charles Halleck, Landgrebe was among a number of Republicans who ran for the open seat. He extremely narrowly won the GOP primary with a plurality polling only 21.8% of the vote; finishing second was O. U. Sullivan, who garnered 21.6%.[1] He then handily won the general election against Democrat Edward F. Kelly.[2]
Landgrebe was easily re-elected in the 1970 Midterms and in the following year.[3] He proved to be a strong conservative during his tenure, voting with the political right 99% of the time.[4]
During the impeachment procedures against Richard Nixon due to the Watergate scandal, Landgrebe proved to be among the last three staunch defenders of the president, another being Democrat Otto Passman of Louisiana.[4] The Indiana representative famously declared:[5]
| “ | 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. | ” |
The unpopularity of Nixon afterwards led to Landgrebe's defeat in the 1974 Midterms. He lost to Democrat Floyd J. Fithian by over twenty percentage points, unable to carry a single county in the district.[6]
References
- ↑ IN District 2 - R Primary Race - May 07, 1968. Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
- ↑ IN District 2 Race - Nov 05, 1968. Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
- ↑ Candidate - Earl F. Landgrebe. Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 FascinatingPolitics (April 14, 2021). Earl Landgrebe: Nixon’s Last Republican Defender. Mad Politics: The Bizarre, Fascinating, and Unknown of American Political History. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
- ↑ September 13, 2018. Papers of Indiana Representative Earl F. Landgrebe now available for research. Indiana State Library. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
- ↑ IN District 2 Race - Nov 05, 1974. Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 18, 2021.