Life-long Tippecanoe County resident and children's healthcare reform advocate Joseph William Mackey has announced his campaign to become Indiana's Representative for the 4th Congressional District. A life-long Catholic, Mackey graduated from Lafayette Central Catholic High School, and he and Tami are active members of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Cathedral. Their oldest son, Connor, is a 2014 graduate of Indiana University and works for a medical marketing firm in Chicago.

Mackey and his wife, Tami, lost two of their children to pediatric cancers in 2013 and 2015, and have since become fervent advocates for the families of children with cancer. Their foundation, the Claire E. and Patrick G. Mackey Children's Cancer Foundation, provides various forms of assistance to those families struggling with the challenges of having a child with cancer and raises funds to support pediatric specific cancer research.

Life-long Tippecanoe County resident and children's healthcare reform advocate Joseph William Mackey has announced his campaign to become Indiana's Representative for the 4th Congressional District. A life-long Catholic, Mackey graduated from Lafayette Central Catholic High School, and he and Tami are active members of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Cathedral. Their oldest son, Connor, is a 2014 graduate of Indiana University and works for a medical marketing firm in Chicago.

Mackey and his wife, Tami, lost two of their children to pediatric cancers in 2013 and 2015, and have since become fervent advocates for the families of children with cancer. Their foundation, the Claire E. and Patrick G. Mackey Children's Cancer Foundation, provides various forms of assistance to those families struggling with the challenges of having a child with cancer and raises funds to support pediatric specific cancer research.