Dan Quayle

He married Marilyn in 1972 and has three children with her - Tucker, Ben and Corinne.

Ben Quayle, Dan’s son, was elected to the House of Representatives but failed to get re-elected in 2012.

He currently resides in Paradise Valley, Arizona with his wife.

James Danforth ‘Dan’ Quayle was born to James Cline Quayle and Martha Corinne in Indianapolis, Indiana.

His grandfather, Eugene C. Pulliam founded ‘Central Newspapers Inc.’ and owned the major newspapers in the state including, ‘The Indianapolis Star’ and the ‘The Arizona Republic’.

The family shifted to Arizona where young Quayle spent much of his youth. He then studied at Huntington High School in Indianapolis, from where he graduated in 1965.

He majored in political science at DePauw University, where he was also a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon guild. He graduated from there in 1969.

In 1971, he was appointed as an investigator with the Consumer Protection Division of the Office of the Indiana Attorney General. The same year, he served as the administrative assistant to Governor Edgar Whitcomb.

He was the Director of the Inheritance Tax Division of the Indiana Department of Revenue from 1973 to 1974.

He then obtained a Juris Doctor degree in law from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in 1974, while serving as the ‘sergeant’ at the Indiana Army National Guard. It is here, he met his future wife Marilyn.

After he received his degree in law, he worked for a little while as the associate publisher of his family publication, the ‘Huntington Herald-Press’.

He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1976 by defeating J. Edward Roush. He got a landslide victory in the re-elections once again, becoming the only candidate to have won by such a great margin in the district of Northeast Indiana.

Published in 1994, ‘Standing Firm: A Vice-Presidential Memoir’ was a bestseller. The book gives an insight into the personal experiences of the former vice president at the White House and his thoughts on ‘family values’. It sold over 300,000 copies in its first print.