Ex-Indiana GOP chairman dies at 83

Former Indiana Republican Party Chairman Virgil Scheidt died Sunday at age 83 at a hospice in Columbus. Scheidt was a longtime Republican activist who became the Bartholomew County GOP chairman in 1966 and held that position until he was elected the party’s state chairman in 1989. He resigned as state chairman in 1993.
 

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