Complex sentence: When Dan Quayle was elected Vice President in 1988, the governor of Indiana Robert Orr offered to appoint Marilyn Quayle to the Senate seat vacated by her husband, but she declined, citing a potential conflict of interest with the George H. W. Bush administration.
Split into simpler sentences: When Dan Quayle was elected Vice President in 1988, the governor of Indiana Robert Orr offered to appoint Marilyn Quayle to the Senate seat vacated by her husband. She declined, citing a potential conflict of interest with the George H. W. Bush administration.