{{Short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Wayne Townsend | image = Wayne_Townsend_of_IN.jpg | image_size = 180px | state_senate = Indiana | state = Indiana | district = 19th | term_start = November 8, 1972 | term_end = November 5, 1986 | preceded = John Mutz<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.capitolandwashington.com/offices/all-offices/219/|title=List of All Offices and Office Holders|date=5 March 2015}}</ref> | succeeded = Larry David Macklin | state_senate1 = Indiana | state1 = Indiaan | district1 = 13th | term_start1 = November 4, 1970 | term_end1 = November 8, 1972 | preceded1 = Frank James Biddinger<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.capitolandwashington.com/offices/all-offices/213/|title=List of All Offices and Office Holders|date=5 March 2015}}</ref> | succeeded1 = John Frederick Augsburger | office2 = Member of the<br />Indiana House of Representatives<br />from Blackford County and Grant County | term_start2 = November 7, 1962 | term_end2 = November 9, 1966 | preceded2 = Ray Manual Hickam<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.capitolandwashington.com/offices/all-offices/h5/ |title=State Representatives from Blackford County |access-date=2018-04-08 |archive-date=2018-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180408205828/http://www.capitolandwashington.com/offices/all-offices/h5/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> | succeeded2 = Roger Lee Jessup | term_start3 = November 5, 1958 | term_end3 = November 9, 1960 | preceded3 = James O. Murrell | succeeded3 = Ray Manual Hickam | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1926|5|1}} | birth_place = Grant County, Indiana, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|7|3|1926|5|1}} | death_place = South Haven, Michigan, U.S. | party = Democratic | occupation = farmer | spouse = Helen | children = five | relations = M. Clifford Townsend (grandfather) | alma_mater = Purdue University (1951) }}
'''W. Wayne Townsend''' (May 1, 1926 – July 3, 2015) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Indiana. A Democrat, he was his party's gubernatorial nominee in 1984. Townsend was defeated by the incumbent Republican governor Robert D. Orr.
==State legislative career== {{empty section|date=August 2025}}
==Gubernatorial campaigns== {{further|1980 Indiana gubernatorial election|1984 Indiana gubernatorial election}}
Townsend twice ran for Governor of Indiana. In 1980, he lost the Democratic Party primary election to businessman John A. Hillenbrand II. In 1984, he received the Democratic nomination but lost the election to Robert D. Orr (the incumbent Republican).
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Townsend, Wayne}} Category:1926 births Category:2015 deaths Category:American Quakers Category:Farmers from Indiana Category:Candidates in the 1984 United States elections Category:Democratic Party Indiana state senators Category:Democratic Party members of the Indiana House of Representatives Category:Purdue University College of Agriculture alumni Category:People from Hartford City, Indiana Category:People from Grant County, Indiana Category:20th-century members of the Indiana General Assembly