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Dan Quayle  

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  • James Danforth Quayle, born to James and Corrine Quayle in Indianapolis, Indiana, served as vice president of the United States under President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993. At the time of his birth, his father, Jim Quayle, a far-right conservative and member of the John Birch Society, was a middle manager with the Huntington Herald-Press newspaper, owned by his fatherin-law, Eugene Pullman, in the small town of Huntington, Indiana. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Communication; Quayle, Dan (1947–)]

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