serviceyears branch children allegiance birth_date residence term_end alma_mater term_start spouse image name predecessor birth_place alongside president jr/sr party office state district website successor religion article_title birth_name
1966 -- 1968 united states army 3 united states 16 may 1943 fort wayne , indiana january 3 , 1989 3 , 1999 february 28 , 2005 january wheaton college , illinois indiana university , indianapolis january 15 , 2001 january 3 , 1981 3 , 2011 january 3 , 1989 august marsha coats dan coats , official portrait , 112th congress.jpg dan coats evan bayh dan quayle john kornblum dan quayle jackson , michigan , u.s. joe donnelly george w. bush united states senator republican united states ambassador to germany indiana indiana indiana 4 4th senate website evan bayh william timken jill long presbyterianism dan coats
 daniel ray coats
dan coats

daniel ray `` dan '' coats -lrb- born may 16 , 1943 -rrb- is the senior united states senator from indiana and a member of the republican party .
he was in the united states senate from 1989 to 1999 , retired , and then returned in 2011 .
born in jackson , michigan , coats graduated from wheaton college in illinois and indiana university robert h. mckinney school of law .
he served in the u.s. army from 1966 to 1968 .
before serving in the u.s. senate , coats was a member of the united states house of representatives , representing indiana 's 4th congressional district from 1981 to 1989 .
he was appointed to fill the senate seat vacated by dan quayle following quayle 's election as vice president of the united states in 1988 .
coats won the 1990 special election to serve the remainder of quayle 's unexpired term , as well as the 1992 election for a full six-year term .
he did not seek reelection in 1998 , and was succeeded by evan bayh .
after retiring from the senate , coats served as u.s. ambassador to germany from 2001 to 2005 , and then worked as a lobbyist in washington , d.c. .
he was re-elected to the senate by a large margin in 2010 , succeeding bayh , who announced his own retirement shortly after coats declared his candidacy .
he is the only current senator to have returned to the senate having previously retired .
on march 24 , 2015 , sen. coats announced he was not running for re-election .
