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Briefly 44th Vice President of the United States serving under George H.W. Bush from 1989-1993.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, Quayle was a representative and a Senator from Indiana and Vice President of the United States.
He attended the public schools of Phoenix, Arizona and Huntington, Indiana. He graduated from DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana in 1969. Quayle graduated from Indiana University, Indianapolis in 1974 and was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1974 and commenced practice in Huntington.
Quayle served in the Indiana National Guard 1969-1975. He was an associate publisher of the Huntington Herald Press and elected as a Republican to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976.
Quayle was reelected to the Ninety-sixth Congress (January 3, 1977-January 3, 1981) but was not a candidate in 1980 for reelection to the House of Representatives, but was elected to the United States Senate; reelected in 1986 and served from January 3, 1981, until January 3, 1989, when he resigned to become Vice President of the United States; chairman, Select Committee to Study the Committee System (Ninety-eighth Congress). He was elected Vice President of the United States in 1988 with President George Herbert Walker Bush and was inaugurated January 20, 1989. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection as Vice President in 1992. Quayle is now a resident of Paradise Valley, Arizona.
