Larry Bucshon

Larry Bucshon (born May 31, 1962) is an American Republican politician and physician who was the United States representative for Indiana's 8th congressional district from 2011 to 2025. Born in Taylorville, Illinois, and raised in Kincaid, Illinois, he is the son of a coal miner and a nurse. He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earned his medical degree at the University of Illinois Medical School at Chicago and trained in cardiothoracic surgery in Wisconsin, serving in the Navy Reserve for almost a decade. He practised heart surgery in Kansas and then at Ohio Valley HeartCare in Indiana, where he became the group's president. He entered Congress by winning the open seat in the 2010 election, defeating the Democratic nominee Trent Van Haaften, and was a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership.