High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Roger Douglas Branigin (July 26, 1902 – November 19, 1975) was the 42nd Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from January 11, 1965 to January 13, 1969. A veteran of World War II, and well known public speaker, Branigin took office with a Democratic General Assembly—the first time since the Great Depression that Democrats controlled both the executive and legislative branches of the state government. Branigin was a conservative Democrat who oversaw the repeal of the state's personal property taxes, greater accessibility to secondary education, and the construction of Indiana's deep water harbor on Lake Michigan. During his term, Branigin exercised his veto power one hundred times, a record number for a single term. In 1968, he ran as a favorite son presidential candidate for Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1968 Indiana Democratic presidential primary, but after Johnson dropped out of the race Branigin continued his campaign in order to control the...

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