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Signed by Homer E. Capehart, who served as a United States Senator from Indiana between 1945 and 1963, when he was defeated in his reelection bid by Birch Bayh. Before entering politics he was known as the father of the jukebox industry. He first worked for a company that made record players and popcorn machines. He then started his own company that made phonographs, but was forced out by investors. In time, it became a division of the Farnsworth Radio and Television Company. Capehart%u2019s second business was called Packard. It developed a Simplex mechanism for automatic record changing. He sold its patent rights to Wurlitzer, which eventually bought his entire company. After he died in 1979, his name was affixed (along with Indiana Senator Sherman Minton) to the Minton-Capehart Federal Building in Indianapolis.Signed by William Ezra Jenner, who was an Indiana State Senator from 1934 to 1942. He also served in the United States Senate for a partial term from 1944 to 1945, and for two full terms from 1947 to 1959. He was a strong supporter and friend of Joseph McCarthy. After President Truman fired General MacArthur, Jenner gave a speech in which he said: %u201cI charge that this country today is in the hands of a secret inner coterie, which is directed by agents of the Soviet Government. Our only choice is to impeach President Truman and find out who is the secret invisible government.%u201d In 1952 Jenner claimed the United Nations had infiltrated the American educational system. He ran for Governor in 1940 and 1948, losing both times, and died in Bedford in 1985.