Wendell L. Willkie,
1892 - - 1944
Lawyer and business leader - Republican presidential nominee, 1940 - the only native Hoosier to be nominated for the Presidency by a major political party - author of One World - grave and memorial in East Hill Cemetery, Rushville.
Marker is on Indiana Route 44 west of Airport Road, on the left when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
