QUAYLE, J. Danforth (Dan), a
Representative and a Senator from Indiana and a Vice President of the United
States; born in Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind., February 4, 1947; attended
the public schools of Huntington, Ind.; graduated, DePauw University,
Greencastle, Ind., 1969; graduated, Indiana University, Indianapolis, 1974;
admitted to the Indiana bar in 1974 and commenced practice in Huntington; served
in the Indiana National Guard 1969-1975; associate publisher of the Huntington
Herald Press; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976;
reelected to the Ninety-sixth Congress (January 3, 1977-January 3, 1981); 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); elected Vice President of the United States in 1988
with President George Herbert Walker Bush and was inaugurated January 20, 1989;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection as Vice President in 1992; is a resident
of Indianapolis, Ind. -- Biographical Data courtesy
of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.