Question: For how many terms was this Indiana State Senate senator and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana elected in the Indiana State Senate after whom the Howard Park Historic District is named?
Context: Ron Alting is a member of the Indiana State Senate representing the 22nd district, serving Tippecanoe County.  He is a Republican.  Senator Alting was first elected to the Indiana State Senate in 1998.  Prior to that, Alting served as a member of the Lafayette, Indiana City Council. Blackford County is located in the east central portion of the U.S. state of Indiana.  The county is named for Judge Isaac Blackford, who was the first speaker of the Indiana General Assembly and a long-time chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court.  Created in 1838, Blackford County is divided into four townships, and its county seat is Hartford City.  Two incorporated cities and one incorporated town are located within the county.  The county is also the site of numerous unincorporated communities and ghost towns. Occupying only 165.58 sqmi , Blackford County is the fourth smallest county in Indiana.  As of the 2010 census, the county's population is 12,766 people in 5,236 households.  Based on population, the county is the 8th smallest county of the 92 in Indiana.  Although no interstate highways are located in Blackford County, three Indiana state roads cross the county, and an additional state road is located along the county's southeast border.  The county has two railroad lines.  A north–south route crosses the county, and intersects with a second railroad line that connects Hartford City with communities to the west. The Howard Park Historic District is a national historic district located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana.  It encompasses 27.6-acres and includes 51 contributing buildings, 2 additional contributing structures, and 1 further contributing site (Howard Park, named after state supreme justice Timothy Edward Howard).  It developed between about 1880 and 1947, and includes notable examples of Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Renaissance Revival, Prairie School, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture and works by architects Austin & Shambleau.  Notable buildings include the Sunnyside Apartments (1922), Studebaker / Johnson House (1907), Zion Evangelical Church (1888, 1930), the Works Progress Administration built Howard Park Administrative Building (1940), and Lister / Plotkin House (1882). The basis of the Bahamian Law and legal system lies within the English Common Law tradition.  Justices of the Supreme Court, Registrars and Magistrates are all appointed by The Governor-General acting on the advice of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission, which is composed of five individuals who are headed by the Chief Justice as their chairman.  The Chief Justice and the Justices of the Court of Appeal, including the President, are appointed by the Governor-General on the recommendation of the Prime Minister after consultation with the Leader of the Opposition.  Once appointed, the salaries and other terms of appointment of the Chief Justice, Justices of Appeal and Justices of the Supreme Court cannot be altered to their disadvantage.  Justices of the Supreme Court can serve until the age of 65 years and, where agreed among the judge, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, may serve until the age of 67.  Justices of Appeal can serve until the age of 68 years and, where agreed among the judge, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, may serve until the age of 70 years.  The law of The Bahamas makes provisions for the appointment of 12 Justices to the Bench of the Supreme Court, inclusive of the Chief Justice, and for five Justices of the Court of Appeal, inclusive of the President.  The Chief Justice, as Head of the Judiciary, is an ex officio member of the Court of Appeal, but only sits at the invitation of the President. Dorothy S. "Sue" Landske (September 3, 1937 – February 27, 2015) was a Republican member of the Indiana State Senate who represented the 6th district.  Landske was Center Township Assessor from 1978 to 1984.  She joined the Indiana State Senate in 1984 and served until her retirement due to health reasons in 2014.  During her final term, Landske served as the Assistant President Pro Tempore. Francis "Frank" Irwin Osborne (1853–1920) was the Attorney General of North Carolina from 1893 to 1896.  Osborne was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and attended the University of Virginia before reading law for 2 years in the offices of Richmond Mumford Pearson, Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.  Osborne was admitted to the North Carolina Bar in 1875.  At age 25, he was elected mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina and served in the office from 1879-1880.  He was elected Attorney General of North Carolina in 1893, but, defeated for reelection to the same office in 1896.  Osborne served a term as a state senator from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina in the North Carolina General Assembly from 1898-1899.  He served on 9 standing Senate Committees.  After 1899, Osborne resumed his legal practice at the law firm of Osborne, Maxwell & Kearn.  Though, himself, a Democrat, in 1901 Osborne defended both North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice David M. Furches and North Carolina Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Martin Douglas during their impeachment hearings.  Osborne was of the opinion that the Republican judges’ impeachments were unwarranted and an attempted political purge.  Osborne’s brilliant speech before the North Carolina General Assembly in closing defense of the justices caused both to be acquitted.  As reward for his successful defense of the justices, Theodore Roosevelt in the same year appointed Osborne an associate justice of the United States Court of Private Land Claims. The Supreme Court is composed of the Chief Justice, twenty Justices.  The Chief Justice is appointed by the President on the recommendation of the Constitutional Council.  S/he is appointed from among the justices having at least three years as a Supreme Court justice.  Justices of the Supreme Court are appointed by the President of Nepal on the recommendation of the Judicial Council.  The Chief Justice and the justices of the Supreme Court have to be confirmed by the Parliamentary Hearing Committee before they can be appointed by the President.  The administrative head of the Supreme Court is the Chief Registrar.  In addition to the Chief Registrar, one Registrar and four Joint-Registrar are appointed to led different departments of the Supreme Court and offer administrative assistance to the Court.  Officers of the Supreme Court are appointed by Government of Nepal under the recommendation of the Judicial Service Commission. Indiana State Soldiers Home Historic District is a historic Soldiers Home and national historic district located in Tippecanoe Township and Wabash Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.  The district encompasses four contributing buildings on the campus of the former Soldiers Home.  They are the Post Exchange, Commandant's House, Library Building (formerly the Commissary), and the Administration Building.  Funding for the home was approved by the Indiana State Legislature in 1888, and building commenced in 1890.  Most of the original buildings were demolished in the 1950s.  The property continued to be administered by the Indiana Department of Veterans' Affairs as the Indiana Veterans’ Home James Edward Banks (born July 16, 1979) is an American politician who is the U.S. Representative for Indiana 's 3 congressional district .  A Republican, he previously served as a member of the Indiana Senate.  Banks was first elected to serve in the state senate for the 17th district in 2010, and upon military deployment to Afghanistan, he took a leave of absence from the state senate since September 2014.  Invoking an Indiana state law which allows state and local officeholders to take leaves of absence during active duty military service, Banks was temporarily replaced by his wife, Amanda Banks, who held the office for the senate's 2015 legislative session.  He returned to Indiana from overseas duty on April 14, 2015 and resumed his duties as state senator on May 8, 2015.  On May 3, 2016 he won the primary election for the Republican nomination for Indiana's Third Congressional District. Timothy Edward Howard was an Indiana State Senate senator and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, writer, poet, professor of law, and Civil War veteran.  He was also the first Notre Dame alumnus recipient of the Laetare Medal.  He was severely wounded at the Battle of Shiloh.  Howard was elected as a Democrat to two terms in the Indiana State Senate, serving from 1887 until 1892.  However, he did not complete his second term, because in 1892, he became a member of the state Supreme Court.  Howard also was president of the Northern Indiana Historical Society, and in 1907, he wrote a history of St. Joseph County.
Answer: two terms