Dan Quayle
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Dan Quayle served as Vice President of the United States under President George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1993. As the second-highest executive office in the country, his tenure made him a significant figure in the final years of the Cold War and the early post-Cold War period.
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James Danforth Quayle (born February 4, 1947) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 44th vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Quayle was also a U.S. representative from 1977 to 1981 and a U.S. senator from 1981 to 1989 from the state of Indiana. A native of Indianapolis, Indiana, Quayle spent most of his childhood in Paradise Valley, a suburb of Phoenix,…
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- TV On the Edge: Moments That Shaped Our Culture — Self (archive footage)2024
- Man In The Arena — Self2020
- President in Waiting — Self2020
- The Words That Built America — Self - Reader: The Constitution2017
- Race for the White House — Self (archive footage)2016
- The Making of Trump — Self (archive footage)
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James Danforth Quayle (born February 4, 1947) is an American retired politician and Indiana National Guard veteran who served as the 44th vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993 under President George H. W. Bush. A member of the Republican Party, Quayle represented Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1981 and in the Senate from 1981 to 1989.
A native of Indianapolis, Quayle spent most of his childhood in Paradise Valley, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona before moving back to Indiana to finish high school. Quayle met his future wife, Marilyn while attending night classes at college. He married Marilyn Tucker in 1972 and had three children including Ben, and obtained his J.D. degree from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in 1974. He and Marilyn practiced law in Huntington, Indiana, before his election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, where he beat incumbent representative, Edward Roush. Quayle would be re-elected in 1978 and serve a total of four years. In 1980 Quayle then ran against popular incumbent senator Birch Bayh. Quayle was expected to lose the race but then won and he was elected to the U.S. Senate. Quayle would be re-elected in 1986, winning in a landslide victory.
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