Todd Young

Young defeated Shelli Yoder, winning 55% of the vote in the newly redrawn 9th district.

Young defeated Bill Bailey, winning 62% of the vote.

Young is a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership along with three other Republican senators.

The Main Street Partnership is considered to be an association of moderate Republicans.

Todd Christopher Young (born August 24, 1972) is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Indiana, a seat he has held since 2017.

A member of the Republican Party, Young previously served as the U.S. representative for IN's 9th congressional district.

Young was born August 24, 1972, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the second of three children of Nancy R. (née Pierce) and Bruce H. Young.

He lived in Marion County, Indiana, for several years before settling in Hamilton County, Indiana, where he attended public schools and won a state soccer championship.

In 1990, Young graduated from Carmel High School in Carmel, Indiana.

After graduating from high school, Young enlisted in the United States Navy and reported for duty in Newport, Rhode Island.

In May 1991, he received an appointment from the Secretary of the Navy to attend the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where his classmates elected him a class officer and he earned a varsity letter as a member of Navy's NCAA Division I soccer team.

He graduated cum laude in 1995, earning a B.S. in political science, and accepted a commission in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Upon graduating from Annapolis, Young trained for six months at the Basic School in Quantico, Virginia.

In 1996, he completed the Naval Intelligence Officer Basic Course in Dam Neck, Virginia.

Young then led the intelligence department of VMU-2, an unmanned aerial vehicle squadron based in Cherry Point, North Carolina.

In 2000 while stationed in the Chicago area, Young earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Young was honorably discharged from active duty in 2000 as a U.S. Marine Captain.

After leaving active duty, Young spent a year in London, attending the University of London's Institute of United States Studies.

After writing a thesis on the economic history of Midwestern agriculture, in 2001 Young received his MA in American politics.

In the summer of 2001, Young traveled to former Communist countries in Eastern Europe where he studied the transition from centrally planned economies to free markets through an executive education program with the Leipzig Graduate School of Management, the first private business school in eastern Germany.

He worked as an adjunct professor of public affairs at Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs and attended law school at night.

In 2001, he moved to Washington, D.C., where he briefly worked at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.

Then he became a staffer for U.S. senator Richard Lugar.

In 2003, Young volunteered for Mitch Daniels's campaign for governor of Indiana.

He was a delegate to the Indiana Republican state convention.

In 2004, he joined Indiana-based Crowe Chizek and Company as a management consultant, helping state and local government clients improve service delivery to Indiana citizens.

In 2006, Young earned his J.D. from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, where he was President of the school's Federalist Society chapter.

Upon graduation he joined the Paoli, Indiana-based firm Tucker and Tucker, P.C. Young is a member of the 2007 class of the Indiana Leadership Forum.

From 2007 to 2010, Young served as Assistant Deputy Prosecutor for Orange County, Indiana.

In 2007, Young founded a fiscal responsibility advocacy group, the National Organization for People vs. Irresponsible Government Spending.

On January 26, 2009, Young announced that he would run for the United States congressional seat in Indiana's 9th district as a Republican.

Young competed with fellow Republicans Mike Sodrel and Travis Hankins for the party's nomination for Congress and won, challenging incumbent Democrat Baron Hill in the general election.

Young received endorsements from former Vice President Dan Quayle as well as Lieutenant Governor Becky Skillman, Attorney General Greg Zoeller, Secretary of State Todd Rokita, Auditor Tim Berry, and Treasurer Richard Mourdock.

Young won the primary and general elections, defeating incumbent Baron Hill on November 2, 2010, and was seated in the 112th Congress in January 2011.

In the 112th Congress, Young voted with the Republican Party 95% of the time.

During the 113th Congress, the Human Rights Campaign, which rates politicians' support for LGBT issues, rated Young 30%, indicating a mixed record.

In 2013 the National Journal gave Young an overall composite rating of 69% conservative and 31% liberal, an economic rating of 69% conservative and 30% liberal, a social rating of 57% conservative and 42% liberal, and a foreign policy rating of 77% conservative and 15% liberal.

He was elected to the United States Senate in the November 8, 2016, general election, succeeding retiring Republican Dan Coats.

From 2019 to 2021, he served as the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Young was reelected in 2022.