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Todd Rokita | |
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 Official portrait, 2011 | |
| 44th Attorney General of Indiana | |
| Assumed office January 11, 2021 | |
| Governor | Eric Holcomb |
| Preceded by | Curtis Hill |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 4th district | |
| In office January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Steve Buyer |
| Succeeded by | Jim Baird |
| 59th Secretary of State of Indiana | |
| In office December 1, 2002 – December 1, 2010 | |
| Governor | Frank O'Bannon Joe E. Kernan Mitch Daniels |
| Preceded by | Sue Anne Gilroy |
| Succeeded by | Charlie White |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Theodore Edward Rokita February 9, 1970 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Kathy Rokita |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence(s) | Brownsburg, Indiana, U.S. |
| Education | Wabash College (BA) Indiana University, Indianapolis (JD) |
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Theodore Edward Rokita (/roʊˈkiːtə/ roh-KEE-tə; born February 9, 1970) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 44th and current Attorney General of Indiana. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana's 4th congressional district from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he served two terms as Secretary of State of Indiana from 2002 to 2010. When Rokita was elected to office in 2002 at age 32, he became the youngest secretary of state in the United States at the time.
Rokita was a candidate to replace Mike Pence in the 2016 Indiana gubernatorial election after Pence withdrew from the race to be Donald Trump's running mate in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. He lost to Eric Holcomb, Pence's lieutenant governor.[1] Rokita vacated his U.S. House seat and unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2018. In 2020, Rokita defeated incumbent Curtis Hill for the Republican nomination for Indiana Attorney General, and won the general election. Rokita was found by Indiana state courts to have violated Indiana law and engaged in attorney misconduct due to his public statements about the abortion-performing doctor in the 2022 Ohio child-rape and Indiana abortion case.
- ^ Davey, Monica (July 26, 2016). "Indiana Governor Mike Pence". The New York Times. Retrieved November 11, 2016.