dan quayle

     

This man resigned his Senate seat January 3, 1989

Trivia about dan quayle

  • James is the real first name of this veep:
  • In 1969 this future vice president joined the Indiana National Guard
  • He declared in 1992 that if Clinton & Gore were moderates, "I'm a world champion speller"
  • On Nov. 3, 1992, the day Bill Clinton was elected president
  • Marilyn Tucker married this fellow Indiana Univ. law student after a whirlwind 10-week courtship
  • This Hoosier, elected to Congress at age 29, was put on the vice-presidential ticket in 1988
  • He was the first man in Indiana history to get more than 60% of the votes for senator, in 1986
  • At a New Jersey spelling bee in 1992, he insisted that "potato" was spelled with an "E" at the end
  • This former VP appeared in an ad during the 1994 Super Bowl for Lay's Potato Chips
  • Before Al Gore, he was the last president of the Senate
  • In August this Indiana senator was chosen as the Republican vice-presidential nominee
  • U.S. Vice Presidents from Indiana include Charles Fairbanks, Thomas Marshall & this later 20th century man
  • He remarked, "one word sums up... the responsibility of any vice president & that one word is 'to be prepared'"
  • He taught business law at Huntington College in 1975, before becoming vice president
  • ...received a law degree from Indiana University in 1974
  • Before Al Gore
  • 1989-1993
  • In a speech, this real-life V.P. blasted fictional Murphy Brown for her choice to have a child out of wedlock
  • "Standing Firm" & "Worth Fighting For" are 2 books by this ex-Vice President
  • This veep said, "Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child"
  • He lost to the son of his former boss for the 2000 GOP nomination
  • He's the former vice president who wisely said, "If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure"
  • After a tour of Latin Amer., this VP regretted not studying Latin enough so he "could converse with those people"
  • U.S. vice president:1989-1993
  • This politico "may be a contestant on... 'Dancing with the Stars'. He's... practicing the mashed potatoe"
  • A former vice president:"Standing Firm"
  • Years after Charles Fairbanks in 1905, he was the next Indianan to go from the Senate to the vice presidency