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Senate Years of Service: 1945-1963 Party: Republican
CAPEHART, Homer Earl, a Senator from Indiana; born in Algiers, Pike County, Ind., June 6, 1897; attended
the public schools; during the First World War enlisted as a private in the United States Army;
promoted to sergeant and served in the Twelfth Infantry 1917-1919; engaged in farming and the
radio, phonograph, and television manufacturing business; elected as a Republican to the United
States Senate in 1944; reelected in 1950 and 1956 and served from January 3, 1945, to January 3,
1963; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1962; chairman, Joint Committee on Defense
Production (Eighty-third Congress), Committee on Banking and Currency (Eighty-third Congress);
engaged in farming, manufacturing, and investment pursuits; retired; resided in Indianapolis, Ind., until
his death there September 3, 1979; interment in Crown Hill Cemetery.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography; Pickett,
William B. Homer E. Capehart: A Senators Life, 1897-1979. Indianapolis: Indiana
Historical Society, 1990; Taylor, John. Homer E. Capehart: United States Senator, 1944-1962.
Ph.D. dissertation, Ball State University, 1977.
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