district serviceyears branch succeeded birth_place unit image_size party term_end preceded birth_date term_start article_title state name
8th 1966 to 1982 national guard frank mccloskey vandalia , illinois indiana 180px republican , reform party january 3 , 1983 david l. cornwell 7 march 1942 january 3 , 1979 h. joel deckard
 indiana h. joel deckard
h. joel deckard

huey joel deckard -lrb- born march 7 , 1942 -rrb- is a former u.s. representative from indiana .
born in vandalia , illinois , deckard attended public schools in mount vernon , indiana .
he attended the university of evansville from 1962 to 1967 , and served in the indiana national guard from 1966 to 1972 .
deckard was affiliated with broadcasting stations in southern illinois and indiana from 1959 to 1972 .
he was a cable television executive and legislative liaison for the illinois-indiana tv association from 1974 to 1977 .
deckard also formed a corporation involved in design and construction of energy-efficient and solar-heated homes and offices .
he served as member of indiana house of representatives from 1966 to 1974 .
deckard was elected as a republican to the ninety-sixth and to the ninety-seventh congresses -lrb- january 3 , 1979 -- january 3 , 1983 -rrb- .
he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1982 to the ninety-eighth congress , losing to then-bloomington mayor frank mccloskey .
initially favored for reelection to a third term , deckard was involved in an automobile accident three weeks before the election .
he refused to take a blood test and was charged with driving under the influence .
mccloskey sought to tie deckard to president reagan at a time of high unemployment in the district .
when mccloskey defeated deckard , deckard became the sixth incumbent from 1966 to 1982 to lose reelection in the district known as the `` bloody eighth . ''
deckard ultimately moved to florida , where he became a computer technical specialist for citibank in tallahassee .
a supporter of pat buchanan , he was the reform party 's nominee for u.s. senator in 2000 .
deckard 's 17,338 votes , only 0.30 % of the total votes cast , became the subject of statistical analysis by critics of the butterfly ballot in palm beach county .
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