Lee H. Hamilton

Lee Hamilton is one of the nation’s foremost experts on Congress and representative democracy. Hamilton founded the Center on Congress at Indiana University in 1999 and served as its Director until 2015. Hamilton was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, where he represented Indiana from 1965-1999. He also served as President and Director of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., from 1999-2010. He is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2015).

Hamilton currently serves as Senior Advisor for the Center on Representative Government, Distinguished Scholar in the School of Global and International Studies, and as a Professor of Practice in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University.

Congressman Hamilton can be contacted at:
(812) 856-4700
lhhamilt@indiana.edu