In this year's national elections, Ralph Nader '55 is not the only Princeton alumnus running for a public office.
On Tuesday night, Mitchell Daniels '71 ran successfully for the governorship of Indiana and Christopher "Kit" Bond '60 successfuly defended his senatorial seat in Missouri.
Daniels, a Republican, defeated Democrat incumbent Joe Kernan by about nine points, 54 percent to 45 percent. Bond, also a Republican, knocked back Democrat Nancy Farmer, 56-43 percent.
Daniels
After graduating from the Wilson School in 1971, Daniels went to Georgetown University Law Center where he earned his J.D. in 1979. He then went to work for Richard Lugar, an Indiana politician who would become mayor of Indianapolis before winning a seat in the Senate in 1976. Daniels served as his campaign director then and again in 1982 when Lugar successfully defended his seat.
After a stint in Ronald Reagan's administration in the mid-1980s, Daniels returned to Indiana, where he served as chief executive of the Hudson Institute. In 1990 he took a position at Eli Lilly and Company, the largest Indiana-based firm. By 1993, he was president of North American pharmaceutical operations.
Daniels held the position until 2000, when he moved to Washington, D.C., to take over the Office of Management and Budget in George W. Bush's administration, where he earned the admiration of Republicans and the scorn of Democrats for helping advance the President's conservative economic agenda.
He left that post in 2003 to return to Indiana, where he began his campaign for governor.
Bond
Bond graduated from Princeton in 1960, and graduated first in his class at the University of Virginia School of Law .
A sixth generation Missourian, Bond ascended the political totem pole in his home state. He began his career as Assistant Attorney General and, in 1973, he became the youngest Governor Missouri has ever had.
In 1986, after his second term as governor, Bond was elected to the Senate. He has successfully defended that seat twice since then.
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