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Instruction
Answer the question based on the provided table.


Table
Table Title: Lieutenant Governor of Indiana
Table Content:
| # | Name | Took office | Left office | Party | Governor | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Christopher Harrison | November 7, 1816 | December 17, 1818 | Democratic-Republican | Jonathan Jennings |  |
| 2 | Ratliff Boon | December 8, 1819 | September 12, 1822 | Democratic-Republican | Jonathan Jennings |  |
| 3 | Ratliff Boon | September 12, 1822 | January 30, 1824 | Democratic-Republican | William Hendricks |  |
| 4 | John H. Thompson | January 30, 1824 | December 3, 1828 | Democratic-Republican | William Hendricks |  |
| 5 | Milton Stapp | December 3, 1828 | December 7, 1831 | Independent | James B. Ray |  |
| 6 | David Wallace | December 7, 1831 | December 6, 1837 | Whig | Noah Noble |  |
| 7 | David Hillis | December 6, 1837 | December 9, 1840 | Whig | David Wallace |  |
| 8 | Samuel Hall | December 9, 1840 | December 6, 1843 | Whig | Samuel Bigger |  |
| 9 | Jesse D. Bright | December 6, 1843 | December 6, 1845 | Democrat | James Whitcomb |  |
| 10 | Paris C. Dunning | December 9, 1846 | December 26, 1848 | Democrat | James Whitcomb |  |
| 11 | James Henry Lane | December 5, 1849 | January 10, 1853 | Democrat | Joseph A. Wright |  |
| 12 | Ashbel P. Willard | January 10, 1853 | January 12, 1857 | Democrat | Joseph A. Wright |  |
| 13 | Abram A. Hammond | January 12, 1857 | October 3, 1860 | Democrat | Ashbel P. Willard |  |
| 14 | Oliver P. Morton | January 14, 1861 | January 16, 1861 | Republican | Henry Smith Lane |  |
| — | John R. Cravens | January 16, 1861 | October 9, 1863 | Republican | Oliver P. Morton | acting |
| — | Paris C. Dunning | October 9, 1863 | January 16, 1865 | Democrat | Oliver P. Morton | acting |
| 15 | Conrad Baker | January 9, 1865 | January 23, 1867 | Republican | Oliver P. Morton |  |
| 16 | William Cumback | January 11, 1869 | January 13, 1873 | Republican | Conrad Baker |  |
| 17 | Leonidas Sexton | January 13, 1873 | January 13, 1877 | Republican | Thomas A. Hendricks |  |
| 18 | Isaac P. Gray | January 13, 1877 | November 2, 1880 | Democrat | James D. Williams |  |
| — | Fredrick Vieche | November 20, 1880 | January 8, 1881 | Democrat | Isaac P. Gray | acting |
| 19 | Thomas Hanna | January 10, 1881 | November 12, 1885 | Republican | Albert G. Porter |  |
| 20 | Mahlon Dickerson Manson | January 12, 1885 | August 3, 1886 | Democrat | Isaac P. Gray |  |
| 21 | Robert S. Robertson | January 10, 1887 | January 13, 1889 | Republican | Isaac P. Gray |  |
| – | Alonzo G. Smith | November 8, 1886 | January 14, 1889 | Democrat | Isaac P. Gray | acting |
| 22 | Ira Joy Chase | January 14, 1889 | November 24, 1891 | Republican | Alvin Peterson Hovey | acting |
| — | Francis M. Griffith | November 23, 1891 | January 9, 1893 | Republican | Ira Joy Chase | acting |
| 23 | Mortimer Nye | January 9, 1893 | January 11, 1897 | Democrat | Claude Matthews |  |
| 24 | William S. Haggard | January 11, 1897 | January 14, 1901 | Republican | James A. Mount |  |
| 25 | Newton W. Gilbert | January 14, 1901 | January 9, 1905 | Republican | Winfield T. Durbin |  |
| 26 | Hugh Thomas Miller | January 9, 1905 | January 11, 1909 | Republican | Frank Hanly |  |
| 27 | Frank J. Hall | January 11, 1909 | January 13, 1913 | Democrat | Thomas R. Marshall |  |
| 28 | William P. O'Neill | January 13, 1913 | January 8, 1917 | Democrat | Samuel M. Ralston |  |
| 29 | Edgar D. Bush | January 8, 1917 | January 10, 1921 | Republican | James P. Goodrich |  |
| 30 | Emmett Forrest Branch | January 10, 1921 | April 30, 1924 | Republican | Warren T. McCray |  |
| — | James J. Nejdl | April 30, 1924 | January 12, 1925 | Republican | Warren T. McCray | acting |
| 31 | F. Harold Van Orman | January 12, 1925 | January 14, 1929 | Republican | Edward L. Jackson |  |
| 32 | Edgar D. Bush | January 14, 1929 | January 9, 1933 | Republican | Harry G. Leslie |  |
| 33 | M. Clifford Townsend | January 9, 1933 | January 11, 1937 | Democrat | Paul V. McNutt |  |
| 34 | Henry F. Schricker | January 11, 1937 | January 13, 1941 | Democrat | M. Clifford Townsend |  |
| 35 | Charles M. Dawson | January 13, 1941 | January 8, 1945 | Democrat | Henry F. Schricker |  |
| 36 | Richard T. James | January 8, 1945 | January 10, 1948 | Republican | Ralph F. Gates |  |
| 37 | Rue J. Alexander | April 14, 1948 | January 2, 1949 | Republican | Henry F. Schricker |  |
| 38 | John A. Watkins | January 10, 1949 | January 12, 1953 | Democrat | Henry F. Schricker |  |
| 39 | Harold W. Handley | January 12, 1953 | January 14, 1957 | Republican | George N. Craig |  |
| 40 | Crawford F. Parker | January 14, 1957 | January 9, 1961 | Republican | Harold W. Handley |  |
| 41 | Richard O. Ristine | January 9, 1961 | January 11, 1965 | Republican | Matthew E. Welsh |  |
| 42 | Robert L. Rock | January 11, 1965 | January 13, 1969 | Democrat | Roger D. Branigin |  |
| 43 | Richard E. Folz | January 13, 1969 | January 8, 1973 | Republican | Edgar Whitcomb |  |
| 44 | Robert D. Orr | January 8, 1973 | January 12, 1981 | Republican | Otis R. Bowen |  |
| 45 | John Mutz | January 12, 1981 | January 9, 1989 | Republican | Robert D. Orr |  |
| 46 | Frank O'Bannon | January 9, 1989 | January 13, 1997 | Democrat | Evan Bayh |  |
| 47 | Joe E. Kernan | January 13, 1997 | September 13, 2003 | Democrat | Frank O'Bannon |  |
| 48 | Kathy Davis | October 20, 2003 | January 10, 2005 | Democrat | Joe E. Kernan |  |
| 49 | Becky Skillman | January 10, 2005 | January 14, 2013 | Republican | Mitch Daniels |  |
| 50 | Sue Ellspermann | January 14, 2013 | Incumbent | Republican | Mike Pence |  |


Question
which party was in office the most?


Answer Format
The final answer should be concise and use the following format:
```json
{
    "answer": [
        "answer1",
        "answer2",
        ...
    ]
}
```
rule
["Republican"]