13 Facts About Paul Helmke

Paul Helmke held this position from July 2006 to July 10,2011.

Paul Helmke attended Yale at the same time as former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and was an acquaintance of each.

In 1980, Paul Helmke ran in the Republican primary for the then Fourth Congressional District open seat in Indiana to replace Dan Quayle who was running for US Senate; he was defeated by Dan Coats, who later went on to serve as US Senator from Indiana.

In 2002, Paul Helmke unsuccessfully challenged incumbent US Representative Mark Souder in the Republican primary for the Third Congressional District in Indiana.

The senior Paul Helmke was the Republican nominee for US Congress in Indiana's Fourth District in 1974.

Walter E Helmke was one of the leading candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor of Indiana in 1948 but was defeated at his party's state convention.

Walter E Helmke has the Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne main research facility building named after him.

Paul Helmke served as Press Secretary to US Senator Richard Lugar, as a Washington lobbyist, and as a staff of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

In 2001, after stepping aside as mayor, Paul Helmke co-wrote a book Son of a Son of a Politician, discussing not only his experiences with politics but that of his father and grandfather.

In May 2006 Paul Helmke was named President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

Paul Helmke took the position that the second amendment to the constitution is a collective right of government and not an individual right of citizens.

In 2008, Paul Helmke appeared on The Colbert Report as a part of that show's "Better Know a Lobby" series.

Also in 2013, Paul Helmke was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.