Robert L. Rock

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Robert Lee Rock (September 8, 1927 – January 9, 2013) was an American Democratic politician from Indiana. He served as the 42nd Lieutenant Governor of Indiana from 1965 to 1969 and as the mayor of Anderson from 1972 to 1980. Rock also spent time in the Indiana House of Representatives, representing Madison County in the 1950s and early 1960s. He was the Democratic candidate for governor in 1968, but lost to Republican Edgar Whitcomb. Born in Alexandria, Indiana, Rock grew up in Anderson, where he graduated from Anderson High School in 1945. He served in the U.S. Navy after high school, then earned a business degree from Indiana University in 1951. He married Mary Jo Ferguson in 1956 and they had four children. As mayor, he helped establish the Anderson Housing Authority and the City of Anderson Transportation System. Rock died in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 2013 at the age of 85.