Keller – professional football player; graduated from Lafayette Jefferson HS Pete Halsmer – professional race car driver Charles Kirkpatrick – professional race car driver Josh Lindblom – professional baseball player Chukie Nwokorie – professional football player; graduated from Lafayette Jefferson HS Clayton Richard – professional baseball player; graduated from McCutcheon HS Erik Sabel – professional baseball player Justin Smith – football player George Souders – professional race car driver (1927) Business, law, politics Roger D. Branigin – Governor of Indiana 1965–1969 John Burger – member of the Minnesota House of Representatives Steve Carter – Indiana Attorney General Henry Leavitt Ellsworth – first Commissioner of the United States Patent and Trademark Office; real estate developer Henry W. Ellsworth – son of Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, attorney, poet, author and Minister to Sweden David W. Evans – US Representative, 6th Congressional District Indiana 1975–1983 Dan Flanagan – Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court Clara Shortridge Foltz (1849–1934) – first female lawyer on the West Coast Joseph García – Former Lt. Governor of Colorado Herman Joseph Justin – founded Justin Boot Company Brian Lamb – founder of C-SPAN Bill Long – state representative Frank Posegate – journalist, mayor of St. Joseph, Missouri John Purdue – Purdue Block, Tippecanoe County founder, founding benefactor of Purdue University Barbara Ringer – first female register of copyrights Alvah Curtis Roebuck – founded Sears, Roebuck and Company Academic, science, technology Eric J. Barron – 14th President of Florida State University, 18th President of Penn State Herbert C. Brown – Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry Christopher L. Eisgruber – 20th President of Princeton University Daniel X. Freedman – pioneer in biological psychiatry, discovered link of hallucinogens to brain transmitters Andrew McCammon – physical and theoretical chemist Donald E. Williams – astronaut Ian Murdock – software engineer, created Debian Other Emily Thornton Charles, poet, journalist Benjaman Kyle, known for identity loss due to dissociative amnesia Evaleen Stein (1863-1923), author, limner Points of interest Purdue University, located in West Lafayette Jerry E. Clegg Botanic Garden; Horticulture Gardens at Purdue University Prophet's Rock 10 minutes North of Lafayette lies Prophet Rock, where the Prophet Tenskwatawa, the half brother of Tecumseh, stood watch encouraging the local Shawnee Native Americans to fight against the encamped army forces of William Henry Harrison in the Battle Of Tippecanoe in 1811. Tenskwatawa was a spiritual leader, but not a military man. His brother was out of town as