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Indiana Governors' Portraits Collection by the Numbers

1 governor

is not represented in the collection

-John Gibson, territorial governor

2 days

is the shortest term of office

-Henry Smith Lane resigned when elected to the U.S. Senate

2 governors

served as vice-president of the U. S.

-Thomas Riley Marshall and Thomas A. Hendricks

3 women

painted governors' portraits

Helen Briggs Duckwall, Marie Goth, Frances Norris Streit

5 governors

are represented with 2 portraits

-Harrison, Jennings, Morton, Thomas A. Hendricks (epochal portraits) and Schricker

6 portraits each

were painted by Wayman Adams, Jacob Cox, and James Forbes

-Adams painted Durbin, Goodrich, Hanly, Marshall, McNutt, and Ralston

-Cox painted Bigger, Lane, Noble, Ray, Wallace, and Wright

-Forbes painted Baker, Boon, Dunning, Jennings, Morton, and Whitcomb

22 governors

were born in Indiana

-Morton the first governor born in Indiana, Porter, Hovey, Mount, Durbin, Marshall, Goodrich, McCray, Branch, Jackson, Leslie, McNutt, Townsend, Schricker, Gates, Craig, Handley, Branigin, Whitcomb, Bowen, Orr, and Bayh.

23 artists

have painted the 52 governors

45 men

have served as governor of the state

48 men

have served as governor of territory and state

51 portraits

are hanging, most in the State House

51 portraits

are oil paintings; one is a pastel

-James Atwell Mount is represented with the pastel

52 portraits

in the collection

200 dollars

allowance for the first portraits