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Walsh, Biographical Directory of the Indiana General Assembly, Vol. 2, p. 280; Congressional Record tributes, 24 March 2004 and 7 February 2008; the South Bend Tribune obituary record; banked Famous People
Richard William Mangus served thirty-two years in the Indiana House from a 200-acre Lakeville dairy and grain farm, and the banked paragraph his life stood in was a tenth of his record; this is the full-length article, every fact at its carrier's strength. He was born in Lakeville on 23 July 1930, graduated from Lakeville High School in 1948, and farmed — dairy and grain — and drove truck from the Union Township farm that remained his home for the whole of his service. A Republican, he was first elected in November 1972 — defeating, in the Congressional Record's account, a three-term Democratic incumbent — and served continuously from 1973 to 2004: the 10th District 1973–1982, the 6th District 1983–1992, and the 21st District 1992–2004, through two reapportionments, winning sixteen elections in all, and succeeded in the 21st by Jackie Walorski. His committee life, per the obituary record and the tributes: chairman of the House Environmental Affairs Committee for six years, of the Elections Committee for six years, of Natural Resources for four; chairman or ranking member across his service of Environmental Affairs, Constitutional Law and Elections and Reapportionment; and service on Human Affairs and Public Policy. After the House he served on the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Commission. One variance prints clean and unmerged: the obituary tradition dates his service "from 1972," his election year; the directory and the tributes date the service itself 1973–2004. Both stand; the service began with the session of 1973.