O’Laughlin, former Indianapolis clerk and Indiana treasurer, dies at 93 – Indianapolis Business Journal

Marjorie Hartley O’Laughlin, a mainstay in Indianapolis and state politics in an period when girls in public workplace have been uncommon, died on Friday. She was 93.

An Indianapolis native, O’Laughlin graduated from Shortridge Excessive Faculty in 1947 after which Indiana College with a level in Enterprise Administration. She was a volunteer in political campaigns when she was requested by mayoral candidate Richard Lugar, a classmate from Shortridge, to run for metropolis clerk in 1967. They each received.

By the point she took workplace, she was pregnant along with her seventh youngster. Whereas within the labor room, she was handed bond paperwork that required her signature with a purpose to proceed planning for Market Sq. Area, based on her household.

O’Laughlin served one time period as metropolis clerk. She was then twice elected as Indiana clerk of the Supreme Courtroom and the Courtroom of Appeals, serving from 1978 to 1985. In keeping with her household, her favourite statutory responsibility was administering oaths to all of the newly admitted Indiana attorneys.

She then ran for state treasurer and was elected in 1987, turning into the second feminine state treasurer in Indiana historical past. She was reelected in 1991.

After serving as state treasurer, O’Laughlin turned the treasurer for the Marion County Well being and Hospital Corp. till retirement.

She is survived by her kids Kate, Beth, Invoice, Patty (Buzz) Turner, Brian, Kevin (Sheila) and Andrew (Heather Mahon); grandson Cory (Kayla) White; granddaughter Katie O’Laughlin; step-grandson J.T. Turner (Meagan Froman); and brother Joseph W. Hartley Jr.

A memorial for O’Laughlin is scheduled from 1 p.m.-5 p.m. on Oct. 10 at Leppert Mortuary–Nora Chapel, 740 E. 86^th St.