Dan Quayle
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About
US Vice President under George Bush from 1989 to 1993. He was also a former U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Indiana. He served from 1981 until 1989.
Before Fame
He graduated from Indiana University with a law degree in 1974 before becoming an investigator for the Consumer Protection Division of the Office of the Indiana Attorney General.
Trivia
People typically made fun of his incompetence because he corrected a child's spelling of the word potato incorrectly during an elementary spelling bee.
Family Life
He married Marilyn Quayle in 1972 and has two sons named Ben and Tucker Quayle and a daughter named Corinne Quayle. His father was prominent newspaper publisher James C. Quayle.
Associated With
He and Bush defeated Democrats Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen in the 1988 election.
