The lines out of the city: Indianapolis and Washington

1892 – today

The statehouse line: Mishawaka's people in Indianapolis begin, in the record reached, with E. Volney Bingham's senate service of 1892–1906 and after, in the entry above — a Mishawaka lawyer holding the two-county senate seat through five legislatures. The line then leaves the sources read for the better part of a century; the settling records are the Indiana legislative rosters and the state Blue Books, and the gap is named rather than bridged. It resumes with the modern House district that holds the city. Indiana House District 5's documented holders in the Mishawaka era are two: Craig R. Fry, Democrat, who held the seat from 9 November 1988 to 7 November 2012 — twenty-four years, a dozen elections, the district's longest modern tenure — and Dale DeVon, Republican, who succeeded him on 7 November 2012 and holds the seat as this record closes. DeVon is Granger's man — his household sits in the unincorporated community the County Order builds next — holding the seat whose largest city is Mishawaka; he is printed at that boundary size, the district's holder, not claimed as the city's own. The district number itself is older than the geography: District 5's holders before the 1980s redistrictings sat for Lake County ground, and no line is drawn from them to this city.

The federal line: John Brademas: Mishawaka's federal line is one man at full size, and the boundary discipline matters to his entry: he is Mishawaka's by birth and South Bend's by schooling, and both facts are printed. John Brademas was born in Mishawaka on 2 March 1927, the eldest of four children of Stephen John Brademas, a Greek immigrant who ran a restaurant, and Beatrice Goble Brademas, a schoolteacher. He was graduated from Central High School in South Bend — quarterback and valedictorian, the Senate's tribute remembers — Harvard in 1949, and Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, with Navy service in 1945–46 and staff work for a senator, a congressman and Adlai E. Stevenson behind him when he ran for the House and lost, in 1954 and again in 1956. In 1958 he won. He served eleven consecutive terms, 3 January 1959 to 3 January 1981, in the old Third District — the district whose congressional line the South Bend section carries as its own — became the House's majority whip for his last four years, the first Greek-American ever elected to Congress, and wrote, from the Education and Labor Committee, much of the federal education law of his era, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 at its head. Defeated in 1980, he went to the presidency of New York University, 1981–1992, and died in New York City on 11 July 2016. No other Mishawaka-born or Mishawaka-seated holder of federal office appears in the record reached; the federal bench test runs likewise negative at the size reached — the Northern District's judges in this ground are South Bend's, Judge Grant's line in the South Bend file, and no judge of the federal court is seated from Mishawaka in the sources read. For most of the city's life the federal government's face here was not a congressman at all; it was the postmaster, and his line is the entry above.

Sources:

1. Capitol & Washington, "Indiana House (District 5)" holders table, and the Craig R. Fry record — Fry (Democrat), 9 November 1988 – 7 November 2012, did not run; Dale DeVon (Republican), seated 7 November 2012; the pre-1982 holders of the district number seated for other ground.
2. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress and U.S. House History, Art & Archives, "Brademas, John" — born Mishawaka, 2 March 1927; Central High School, South Bend; Harvard 1949; Oxford 1954; Navy 1945–46; elected to the 86th and ten succeeding Congresses (3 January 1959 – 3 January 1981); majority whip, 95th and 96th Congresses; president of New York University 1981–1992; died 11 July 2016.
3. New York University Archives, John Brademas Congressional Papers (MC 168), biographical note — eldest of four children of Stephen John Brademas Sr., Greek-immigrant restaurateur, and Beatrice Goble Brademas, schoolteacher; first native-born American of Greek origin elected to Congress.
4. Congressional Record, vol. 162 (15 September 2016) — the Senate's tribute: star quarterback and valedictorian at South Bend Central High School; Rhodes Scholar; the education legislation and the majority whip's years.