Marilyn Quayle

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**Marilyn Tucker Quayle**
Born	July 29, 1949 (age 57) Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Occupation	Second Lady of the United States
Predecessor	Barbara Bush
Successor	Tipper Gore
Spouse	Dan Quayle
Children	Tucker, Benjamin, Corinne

Marilyn Tucker Quayle (born July 29, 1949 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is the wife of Dan Quayle and held the unofficial title of Second Lady of the United States from 1989 until 1993.

Quayle received a bachelor's degree in political science from Purdue University. She attended night law school classes and earned her J.D. at Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis[1], where she met Dan Quayle. They were married ten weeks later on November 18, 1972. The Quayles worked as attorneys in Huntington, Indiana in a law practice, Quayle and Quayle. The Quayles suspended their law practice when Dan was elected to Congress in 1976, and Marilyn concentrated on raising their three children.

When Dan Quayle was elected Vice President in 1988, the governor of Indiana, Robert Orr, offered to appoint her to the Senate seat vacated by Dan, but, after consideration of the offer, she declined the position, citing a potential conflict of interest with the Bush administration of which her husband was now a part.[2]

During her husband's tenure as Vice President of the United States, Quayle served on the board of the Federal Management Agency, as Chairman of the International Disasters Advisory Committee for the Agency for International Development, and as the National Cancer Institute's national spokesperson for NCI's Breast Cancer Summits. She also served on the United States special high-level council for the International Decade for Natural Hazard Reduction.

In a speech before the 1992 Republican National Convention, Quayle dismissed Bill Clinton's claim to a new generation of leadership, saying, "Not everyone demonstrated, dropped out, took drugs, joined in the sexual revolution or dodged the draft."^[1]

Active in a number of charitable causes, she has placed a special emphasis on disaster preparedness and breast cancer research. Her mother, Mary Alice Tucker, and who trained as a pediatrician, died of breast cancer at age 56 in 1975.

Quayle is a currently a partner in the law form of Krieg, DeVault, Alexander & Capeheart where she practices general corporate law, emphasizing mergers and acquisitions, international law, and health care law. The Quayles live in Paradise Valley, Arizona.

[edit] Books

Marilyn Quayle is the author or co-author of several books, including two works of thriller fiction written with her sister, Nancy Tucker Northcott. The novels (Embrace The Serpent and The Campaign) follow a fictional black evangelical Republican senator, the victim of a vicious smear campaign cooked up by the liberal media and an unnamed Democratic president of questionable morality. The senator clears his name, and the novels conclude with the suicide of the unnamed president.

Mrs. Quayle also wrote Moments that Matter with her husband.