{"id":5440,"date":"2013-01-10T16:24:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T21:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=5440"},"modified":"2013-01-10T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T21:24:35","slug":"u-s-rep-luke-messer-91-r-in-sworn-in-on-january-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2013\/01\/10\/u-s-rep-luke-messer-91-r-in-sworn-in-on-january-3\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Rep. Luke Messer \u201891 (R-IN) sworn in on January 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/01\/luke-messer-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5441\" title=\"luke messer 2\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/01\/luke-messer-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a>In addition to his Congressional duties with the 113<sup>th<\/sup> session of Congress, <strong>Luke Messer &#8217;91\u00a0<\/strong>is the Republican freshman class president.\u00a0 Luke was elected in November from Indiana\u2019s 6th Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/Events\/Newsmakers-with-Representative-Elect-Luke-Messer-R-IN\/10737436904\/\">Click here<\/a> and select from video playlist on the right to see a video\u00a0interview with Luke on C-Span on December 28.<\/p>\n<p><em>About Luke:\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Luke is the Congressman for Indiana\u2019s 6th Congressional District, a 19 county region of east-central and southeastern Indiana comprised of manufacturing and agricultural communities. Elected President of the Freshman Class by his peers, Messer serves on the House Committees on Budget, Foreign Affairs, and Education &amp; the Workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Luke and his wife Jennifer have two daughters, one son and three dogs.\u00a0 Luke has also served as an elder at his church and is the author of a children&#8217;s book about Indiana entitled \u201cHoosier Heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Luke!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to his Congressional duties with the 113th session of Congress, Luke Messer &#8217;91\u00a0is the Republican freshman class president.\u00a0 Luke was elected in November from Indiana\u2019s 6th Congressional District. Click here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}