Marilyn Quayle
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| Marilyn Tucker Quayle | |
 Marilyn Tucker Quayle, Second Lady of U.S.A. |
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| In office January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Barbara Bush |
| Succeeded by | Tipper Gore |
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| Born | July 29, 1949 Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Spouse | James Danforth Quayle |
| Children | Tucker, Benjamin, Corinne |
| Occupation | Second Lady of the United States |
Marilyn Tucker Quayle (born July 29, 1949) is the wife of former U.S. Vice President James Danforth Quayle and held the unofficial title of Second Lady of the United States from 1989 until 1993.
Born Marilyn Tucker in Indianapolis, Indiana, she is a daughter of Warren S. Tucker and his wife, the former Mary Alice Craig.
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, where she met Dan Quayle, the son of a newspaper publisher. They were married ten weeks later on November 18, 1972 and have three children: Tucker, Benjamin, and Corinne.
The Quayles worked as attorneys in Huntington, Indiana in a law practice, Quayle and Quayle. The couple suspended their law practice when he was elected to Congress in 1976.
When Dan Quayle was elected Vice President in 1988, the governor of Indiana, Robert Orr, offered to appoint Marilyn Quayle to the Senate seat vacated by Dan, but she declined the position, citing a potential conflict of interest with the Bush administration.[1]
During her husband's tenure as Vice President of the United States, Quayle served on the board of the Federal Emergency 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."[2]
Active in a number of charitable causes, she has placed a special emphasis on disaster preparedness and breast cancer research; her mother died of the disease at age 56.
Quayle is a partner in the law firm 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.
Her Secret Service codename is "Sunshine"[3].
[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 liberal-media smear campaign and an unnamed Democratic president of questionable morality. The senator clears his name, and the novels conclude with the suicide of the Democratic president.
Mrs. Quayle also wrote Moments that Matter with her husband.
- Embrace The Serpent (1992) (ISBN 0-517-58822-6)
- The Campaign: A Novel (1996) (ISBN 0-310-20231-0)
- Moments that Matter (1999) (ISBN 0-8499-5529-7)
[edit] Religious affiliation
Brought up in an evangelical household, Marilyn Tucker Quayle is a Presbyterian. Her parents were longtime admirers of Colonel Robert B. Thieme, Jr., the founder and former pastor of Berachah Church in Houston, who was described in an Associated Press article as "known for unorthodox biblical interpretations and for verbal attacks on liberals, welfare recipients, homosexuals and others." As Marilyn Quayle said in an interview on NBC when the subject of her family's religious beliefs had become the focus of some media attention, "I grew up with my mother listening to (Thieme's) tapes. ... I have never listened to him on social issues. I didn't even know that he espoused any".[4]
[edit] Notes
- ^ http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/dan_quayle.pdf
- ^ Purdum, Todd S. "What They're Really Fighting About", The New York Times, 2004-08-29.
- ^ Secret Service Codename
- ^ APn 10/05 1656 ELN-Quayle-Religion By EILEEN PUTMAN Associated Press Writer OMAHA, Neb
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| Preceded by Barbara Bush |
Second Lady of the United States 1989-1993 |
Succeeded by Tipper Gore |
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