Complex sentence: W. Wayne Townsend (1926--July 3,2015) was an American Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Indiana who was his party's gubernatorial nominee in 1984.
Split into simpler sentences: W. Wayne Townsend (1926--July 3,2015) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Indiana. A Democrat, he was his party's gubernatorial nominee in 1984.