Theodore Edward Rokita (born February 9, 1970) is an American politician who served as the member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana's 4th congressional district from 2011 to 2019.
A member of the Republican Party, he served two terms as Secretary of State of Indiana from 2002 to 2010.
When Rokita was elected to office in 2002 at age 32, he became the youngest secretary of state in the United States at the time.
Rokita was a candidate to replace Mike Pence in the 2016 Indiana gubernatorial election after Pence withdrew from the race to be Donald Trump's running mate in the 2016 U.S.
presidential election.
He lost to Eric Holcomb, Pence's lieutenant governor.On August 8, 2017, Rokita announced he would vacate his House seat to run for the Indiana U.S.
Senate seat held by Democrat Joe Donnelly.
On May 8, 2018, he lost the Republican primary election to Mike Braun by a little more than 11%.