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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Indiana / USJames Danforth (Dan) QUAYLE
(1947- )
Senate Years of Service:
1981-1989Party: RepublicanQUAYLE, James Danforth
(Dan), (father of Ben Quayle), a Representative and a
Senator from Indiana and a Vice President of the United States;
born in Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind., February 4, 1947;
attended the public schools of Phoenix, Ariz., and Huntington,
Ind.; graduated, DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind., 1969;
graduated, Indiana University, Indianapolis 1974; admitted to the
Indiana bar in 1974 and commenced practice in Huntington; served in
the Indiana National Guard 1969-1975; associate publisher of the
Huntington Herald Press; elected as a Republican to the
Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976; reelected to the Ninety-sixth
Congress (January 3, 1977-January 3, 1981); was not a candidate in
1980 for reelection to the House of Representatives, but was
elected to the United States Senate; reelected in 1986 and served
from January 3, 1981, until January 3, 1989, when he resigned to
become Vice President of the United States; chairman, Select
Committee to Study the Committee System (Ninety-eighth Congress);
elected Vice President of the United States in 1988 with President
George Herbert Walker Bush and was inaugurated January 20, 1989;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection as Vice President in 1992; is
a resident of Paradise Valley, Ariz.
Bibliography
Quayle, Dan. Standing Firm: A Vice-Presidential Memoir. New
York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994; Quayle, Dan. Worth
Fighting For. Nashville, Tenn.: Word Publishing, 1999; Quayle,
Dan, and Diane Medved. The American Family: Discovering the
Values that Make Us Strong. New York: HarperCollins Publishers,
1996; Broder, David, and Bob Woodward. The Man Who Would Be
President: Dan Quayle. New York: Simon & Schuster,
1992.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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