From: ajmiller@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Arkayn)
Subject: Quayle's Biography
Organization: Purdue University
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 02:44:49 GMT


               OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY OF VICE PRESIDENT
                             DAN QUAYLE


On January 20, 1989, Dan Quayle was sworn in as the 44th Vice 
President of the United States.

Mr. Quayle was born on February 4, 1947 in Indianapolis, Indiana.  
He was named after James Danforth, a longtime Quayle family friend 
killed in World War II.  After spending much of his youth in 
Arizona, he graduated from Huntington High School in Huntington, 
Indiana in 1965.  He then matriculated at DePauw University, where 
he received his B.A. degree in political science in 1969.

After receiving his degree, Mr. Quayle joined the Indiana National 
Guard and served from 1969 - 1975.  While serving in the Guard, he 
earned a law degree from Indiana University in 1974.
 
Mr. Quayle's public service began in July 1971, when he 
became an investigator for the Consumer Protection Division of the 
Indiana Attorney General's Office.  In September, he became an 
administrative assistant to Governor Edgar Whitcomb.  From 1973 - 
74, he was the director of the Inheritance Tax Division of the 
Indiana Department of Revenue.

*** Upon receiving his law degree, Mr. Quayle worked as associate 
*** publisher of his family's newspaper, The Huntington Herald-Press 
*** and practiced law with his wife in Huntington.

[So, he never *did* practice law in Indiana!]

In 1976, Mr. Quayle was elected to the U.S. Congress from 
Indiana's Fourth Congressional District, defeating an eight-term 
incumbent Democrat.  He won re-election in 1978 by the greatest 
percentage margin ever achieved to that date in the northeast 
Indiana district.

In 1980, Mr. Quayle became the youngest person ever elected to the 
U.S. Senate from the State of Indiana, defeating three-term 
incumbent Democrat Birch Bayh.  Making Indiana political history 
yet again, Mr. Quayle was re-elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986 
with the largest margin ever achieved to that date by a candidate 
in a statewide Indiana race.

During his tenure in the U.S. Senate, Mr. Quayle became widely 
known for his legislative work in the areas of defense, arms 
control, labor and human resources.  With his service on the Armed 
Services Committee, the Budget Committee and the Labor and Human 
Resources Committee, he became an effective Senator, respected by 
colleagues on both sides of the aisle.  In 1982, working with 
Senator Edward Kennedy, Mr. Quayle authored the Job Training 
Partnership Act (JTPA), which has been called the most significant 
piece of social legislation passed during the Reagan presidency.

In August 1988, at the Republican National Convention in New 
Orleans, George Bush called on Mr. Quayle to be his running mate 
in the general election.  Although Republicans were trailing by up 
to 15 points in public opinion polls taken prior to the 
convention, the Bush/Quayle ticket went on to win the November 
election by a convincing 54-46 margin, sweeping 38 states and 
capturing 426 electoral votes.


In his Constitutional role as Vice President, Mr. Quayle serves as 
president of the United States Senate.  He is a statutory member 
of the National Security Council and is the first chairman of the 
National Space Council, a space policy body reestablished by 
statute in 1988.  On February 9, 1989, President Bush named Mr. 
Quayle head of the Council on Competitiveness that will work to 
ensure U.S. international competitiveness into the 21st century.

In November 1972, Mr. Quayle married the former Marilyn Tucker of 
Indianapolis.  They are the parents of three children: Tucker, 
Benjamin, and Corinne.

Mr. Quayle, the oldest of four children, has two brothers and a 
sister: Chris, Mike, and Martha Saddler.  He is the son of Jim and 
Corinne Quayle of Huntington, Indiana.

He enjoys golf, tennis, basketball, skiing, horseback riding, fly 
fishing and reading.  He particularly enjoys watching his children 
as they participate in team sports.  The Quayles attend the McLean 
Presbyterian Church in McLean, Virginia.



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