Quayle, Dan

Quayle, Dan

▪ vice president of United States
in full  James Danforth Quayle 
born Feb. 4, 1947, Indianapolis, Ind., U.S.
 
 44th vice president of the United States (1989–93) in the Republican administration of President George Bush (Bush, George).

      Quayle was the son of James Quayle, a newspaper publisher, and Corrine Pulliam. Graduating from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, in 1969, he earned a law degree from Indiana University and was admitted to the bar in 1974. During his years in law school he held various posts in the Indiana state government, and from 1974 to 1976 he was associate publisher of his family's newspaper, the Huntington Herald-Press. He won election to the United States House of Representatives (Representatives, House of) in 1976 and served two terms. In 1980 he was elected to the Senate, and he was reelected in 1986. In August 1988 Quayle was chosen by Bush (Bush, George), the Republican Party presidential candidate, to be his vice-presidential running mate, a decision that generated considerable criticism and derision in the press, reflecting a widespread perception that Quayle was unqualified for the office.

      While vice president Quayle traveled widely in the United States and around the world on political and goodwill missions and chaired the President's Council on Competitiveness, which served as the administration's mechanism for reviewing new federal regulations and proposed reforms of the judicial system. During the 1992 presidential campaign, which the Bush-Quayle ticket lost to William J. Clinton (Clinton, Bill) and Al Gore (Gore, Al), Quayle focused on the need to return to “traditional family values” and attacked the breakdown of the two-parent family and the perceived moral decay of American society.

      After leaving office Quayle became the chairman of Campaign America, a conservative political action group founded by Republican Senator Bob Dole (Dole, Bob). Quayle sought the Republican nomination for president in 2000, but his candidacy sparked little interest, and he withdrew from the race in September 1999.

      Quayle's 1994 book, Standing Firm, contains his memoirs of the vice presidency. His moral beliefs are outlined in The American Family: Discovering the Values That Make Us Strong (1996), written with psychologist Diane Medved.

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