The Resume

(April 4, 1932-April 28, 2019)
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana
Senator of Indiana, (Republican January 1977-January 2013)
Launched the Veterans History Project in Indiana (2002)
Criticized President Bush’s stance on the Iraq war (June 25, 2007)
Ranked among ‘America’s Best Senators’ (Time Magazine, April 2006)

Why he might be annoying:

He served in the Navy from 1957 to 1960.
He was a fully reliable vote in favor of Bush’s war agenda.
He lost his first Senate election bid to the incumbent Democrat (Birch Bayh, 1974).
He was ‘Richard Nixon’s favorite mayor.’
After 35 years of service in the Senate, he lost in Indiana's GOP Senatorial primary to a Tea Party backed opponent (May 8, 2012).

Why he might not be annoying:

He became an Eagle Scout, the ultimate honor a Boy Scout can achieve.
At the Brookings Institute, he said the United States consumed more than a quarter of the world’s oil while having only one in 20 of the world’s citizens.
He participated in Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Hands That Shape Humanity project.
He manages his family’s corn/soybean/tree farm in Marion County.
Mika Brzezinski considered his stance on the Iraq war a more important news story than Paris Hilton’s release from prison.

Credit: Cool It All Right?

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• 107th United States Congress - Senators [January 2001-December 2002]
• 108th United States Congress - Senators [January 2003-December 2004]
• 109th United States Congress - Senators [January 2005-December 2006]
• 110th United States Congress - Senators [January 2007-December 2008]
• 111th United States Congress - Senators [January 2009-December 2010]
• 112th United States Congress - Senators [January 2011-December 2012]
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [April] (Ranked: 4041932)
• Cool It All Right?'s Profiles [Series 03]
• Dicks and Johnsons
• I am a Hoosier [Indiana]
• I Died in 2019 (Ranked: 87)
• I was a Boy Scout
• Linked to George W. Bush
• People with Tom, Dick or Harry in their Names
• Profiles 20501-20750 (Ranked: 20677)
• U.S. Senators
• We Celebrated Our Golden Anniversary

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 19 Votes: 57.89% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 85 Votes: 50.59% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 9 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 15 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 65 Votes: 67.69% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 21 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 32 Votes: 65.62% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 33 Votes: 51.52% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 47 Votes: 38.30% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 51 Votes: 62.75% Annoying