Marilyn Quayle
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Marilyn Tucker Quayle is an American lawyer, novelist, and political figure who is the wife of former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle
and held the unofficial title of Second Lady of the United States
from 1989 until 1993.
, Indiana
to Mary Alice Craig and Warren S. Tucker. The fourth of six children, Marilyn's parents were both doctors. She had a strict Christian upbringing. The Tuckers 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." Years later, when media attention focused on her family's religious beliefs, Marilyn Quayle said in an NBC
interview: "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." She does defend his biblical teachings. As for her own religion, Marilyn Tucker Quayle is a Presbyterian.
Marilyn attended Broad Ripple High School
and subsequently received a bachelor's degree in political science from Purdue University
. While attending Purdue, she ran for treasurer of her freshman class. She later attended law school at night and earned a J.D.
at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis, where she met Dan Quayle, the son of a newspaper publisher. The two sat next to each other in the front row in class. Marilyn frequently spoke up and sought out the professor after class was over. She and Dan Quayle were married 10 weeks later, on November 18, 1972. They live in Paradise Valley
, Arizona
, and have three children: Tucker, founder of an investment company called Tynwald Capital; Benjamin
, a Republican congressman representing Arizona's 3rd Congressional District
; and Corinne.
at a law practice, Quayle and Quayle. The couple suspended their practice after he was elected to Congress in 1976. After the family moved to the Washington, D.C. area in 1977, Marilyn remained actively involved in Dan Quayle's career. She offered him advice on strategy, clipped relevant articles, and read his paperwork at home.
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 her husband. She declined, citing a potential conflict of interest with the George H. W. Bush administration.
During her husband's term as Vice President of the United States, Marilyn 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.
She shares her husband's Republican opposition to abortion and the ERA.
Her Secret Service codename
was, or is, "Sunshine".
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."
In the 1990s, Marilyn Quayle authored or co-authored 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 who becomes the victim of a liberal-media smear campaign and an unnamed Democratic president of questionable morality. The senator eventually clears his name and the novels conclude with the suicide of the Democratic president.
She also wrote Moments that Matter with her husband.
Marilyn Quayle served as a strong force behind her husband's bid in the United States presidential election, 2000
. His campaign ended early, prior to any primary voting, after establishment Republican backing aligned behind George W. Bush
.
Actively involved in a number of charitable causes, Marilyn Quayle has placed a special emphasis on disaster preparedness and breast cancer research. Her mother died of breast cancer at the age of 56.
Quayle is currently a partner in the law firm of Krieg, DeVault, Alexander & Capehart, where she practices general corporate law
with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions
, international law
, and health care law. When she took the job in 1993, it was announced that she would be referred to as Marilyn Tucker Quayle.
In 2010, Quayle narrated an advertisement for Georgia gubernatorial candidate
Karen Handel
.
Dan Quayle
James Danforth "Dan" Quayle served as the 44th Vice President of the United States, serving with President George H. W. Bush . He served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Indiana....
and held the unofficial title of Second Lady of the United States
Second Lady of the United States
Second lady of the United States is an informal title for the wife of the vice president of the United States, coined in contrast to the first lady ....
from 1989 until 1993.
Early life and education
Marilyn Tucker was born in the Meridian-Kessler area of IndianapolisIndianapolis
Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...
, Indiana
Indiana
Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
to Mary Alice Craig and Warren S. Tucker. The fourth of six children, Marilyn's parents were both doctors. She had a strict Christian upbringing. The Tuckers were longtime admirers of Colonel Robert B. Thieme, Jr.
Robert Thieme
Robert Bunger Thieme, Jr. was pastor of Berachah Church, a nondenominational Christian church in Houston, Texas, from 1950-2003...
, the founder and former pastor of Berachah Church
Berachah Church
Berachah Church is a Christian fundamentalist, nondenominational church founded in 1935 in Houston, Texas.-History:Berachah Church was founded by C. W. Colgan, an oil company executive, who created it to evangelize Christianity. In 1950, Robert Thieme came to Berachah...
in Houston, who was described in an Associated Press
Associated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
article as "known for unorthodox biblical interpretations and for verbal attacks on liberals, welfare recipients, homosexuals and others." Years later, when media attention focused on her family's religious beliefs, Marilyn Quayle said in an NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
interview: "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." She does defend his biblical teachings. As for her own religion, Marilyn Tucker Quayle is a Presbyterian.
Marilyn attended Broad Ripple High School
Broad Ripple High School
Broad Ripple Magnet High School for the Arts & Humanities, established in 1886, is a magnet school of the Indianapolis Public Schools.-History:...
and subsequently received a bachelor's degree in political science from Purdue University
Purdue University
Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...
. While attending Purdue, she ran for treasurer of her freshman class. She later attended law school at night and earned a J.D.
Juris Doctor
Juris Doctor is a professional doctorate and first professional graduate degree in law.The degree was first awarded by Harvard University in the United States in the late 19th century and was created as a modern version of the old European doctor of law degree Juris Doctor (see etymology and...
at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis, where she met Dan Quayle, the son of a newspaper publisher. The two sat next to each other in the front row in class. Marilyn frequently spoke up and sought out the professor after class was over. She and Dan Quayle were married 10 weeks later, on November 18, 1972. They live in Paradise Valley
Paradise Valley, Arizona
Paradise Valley is a small, affluent town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. According to the 2005 Census Bureau, the population of the town was 14,558. Despite the town's relatively small area and population compared to other municipalities in the Phoenix metropolitan area, Paradise...
, Arizona
Arizona
Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...
, and have three children: Tucker, founder of an investment company called Tynwald Capital; Benjamin
Ben Quayle
Benjamin Eugene "Ben" Quayle is an American politician and U.S. Representative for Arizona's 3rd congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party. Ben Quayle is son of former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle and former U. S...
, a Republican congressman representing Arizona's 3rd Congressional District
Arizona's 3rd congressional district
Arizona's 3rd congressional district is a congressional district located in the U.S. state of Arizona and contains most of the northern portion of the city of Phoenix as well as some of its northern suburbs...
; and Corinne.
Legal and political career
The Quayles worked as attorneys in Huntington, IndianaHuntington, Indiana
Huntington, known as the "Lime City", is a small city in and the county seat of Huntington County, Indiana, United States. It is in Huntington Township and Union Township...
at a law practice, Quayle and Quayle. The couple suspended their practice after he was elected to Congress in 1976. After the family moved to the Washington, D.C. area in 1977, Marilyn remained actively involved in Dan Quayle's career. She offered him advice on strategy, clipped relevant articles, and read his paperwork at home.
When Dan Quayle was elected Vice President
Vice President of the United States
The Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office created by the United States Constitution. The Vice President, together with the President of the United States, is indirectly elected by the people, through the Electoral College, to a four-year term...
in 1988, the governor of Indiana Robert Orr
Robert D. Orr
Robert Dunkerson Orr was an American political leader and the 45th Governor of Indiana from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party.-Early life:...
offered to appoint Marilyn Quayle to the Senate seat vacated by her husband. She declined, citing a potential conflict of interest with the George H. W. Bush administration.
During her husband's term as Vice President of the United States, Marilyn Quayle served on the board of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal Emergency Management Agency
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security, initially created by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1978 and implemented by two Executive Orders...
, as Chairman of the International Disasters Advisory Committee for the Agency for International Development, and as the National Cancer Institute
National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute is part of the National Institutes of Health , which is one of 11 agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The NCI coordinates the U.S...
'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.
She shares her husband's Republican opposition to abortion and the ERA.
Her Secret Service codename
Secret Service codename
The United States Secret Service uses code names for U.S. presidents, first ladies, and other prominent persons and locations. The use of such names was originally for security purposes and dates to a time when sensitive electronic communications were not routinely encrypted; today, the names...
was, or is, "Sunshine".
In a speech before the 1992 Republican National Convention, Quayle dismissed Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
'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."
In the 1990s, Marilyn Quayle authored or co-authored 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 who becomes the victim of a liberal-media smear campaign and an unnamed Democratic president of questionable morality. The senator eventually clears his name and the novels conclude with the suicide of the Democratic president.
She also wrote Moments that Matter with her husband.
Marilyn Quayle served as a strong force behind her husband's bid in the United States presidential election, 2000
United States presidential election, 2000
The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Republican candidate George W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush , and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President....
. His campaign ended early, prior to any primary voting, after establishment Republican backing aligned behind George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
.
Actively involved in a number of charitable causes, Marilyn Quayle has placed a special emphasis on disaster preparedness and breast cancer research. Her mother died of breast cancer at the age of 56.
Quayle is currently a partner in the law firm of Krieg, DeVault, Alexander & Capehart, where she practices general corporate law
Corporate law
Corporate law is the study of how shareholders, directors, employees, creditors, and other stakeholders such as consumers, the community and the environment interact with one another. Corporate law is a part of a broader companies law...
with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions refers to the aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance and management dealing with the buying, selling, dividing and combining of different companies and similar entities that can help an enterprise grow rapidly in its sector or location of origin, or a new field or...
, international law
International law
Public international law concerns the structure and conduct of sovereign states; analogous entities, such as the Holy See; and intergovernmental organizations. To a lesser degree, international law also may affect multinational corporations and individuals, an impact increasingly evolving beyond...
, and health care law. When she took the job in 1993, it was announced that she would be referred to as Marilyn Tucker Quayle.
In 2010, Quayle narrated an advertisement for Georgia gubernatorial candidate
Georgia gubernatorial election, 2010
The 2010 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 2010. Incumbent Republican Governor Sonny Perdue was term-limited and unable to seek re-election. Primary elections for the Republican and Democratic parties took place on July 20, with a Republican runoff on August 10. The...
Karen Handel
Karen Handel
Karen C. Handel is an American politician in the state of Georgia who served as Secretary of State of Georgia from 2007 until her resignation in January 2010 when she ran for Governor of Georgia in the 2010 election as a Republican. She announced in December 2009 that she would resign as...
.
Books
- 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)