  mitchell elias "mitch" daniels, jr. (born april 7, 1949) is an american academic administrator and former politician who was governor of indiana from 2005 to 2013. he is a member of the republican party. since 2013, daniels has been president of purdue university. born in monongahela, pennsylvania, daniels is a graduate of princeton university, studied at the indiana university robert h. mckinney school of law and received his juris doctor from georgetown university law center. daniels began his career working as an assistant to richard lugar, working as his chief of staff in the senate from 1977 to 1982, and was appointed executive director of the national republican senatorial committee when lugar was chairman from 1983 to 1984. he worked as a chief political adviser and as a liaison to president ronald reagan in 1985, before he was appointed president of the conservative think tank, the hudson institute. daniels moved back to indiana, joining eli lilly and company, working as president of north american operations from 1993 to 1997, and senior vice president of corporate strategy and policy from 1997 to 2001. in january 2001, daniels was appointed by president george w. bush as the director of the u.s. office of management and budget, where he served until june 2003. daniels announced his intention to run
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