Dan Quayle

James Danforth Quayle (born February 4, 1947) was the 44th Vice President of the United States under George H. W. Bush (1989-1993). In 2000, he was an unsuccessful candidate to win the Republican nomination for President of the United States.

Post-vice presidency

In April 1999 he announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the 2000 Presidential Election. In the first contest among the Republican candidates, the Iowa straw poll of August 1999, he finished 8th. He withdrew from the race the following month.

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1999 - 2000 Presidential Election

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Former Vice President Dan Quayle is an advisor to the firm Cerberus Capital Management and president of Quayle and Associates. He is an Honorary Trustee Emeriti of the Hudson Institute.

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Cerberus Capital Management - Hudson Institute

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Dan Quayle is the author of Standing Firm, a vice-presidential memoir that became a nationwide bestseller. His second book, The American Family: Discovering the Values that Make Us Strong, came out in the spring of 1996 and Worth Fighting For came out in 1999. The former vice president also writes a nationally syndicated newspaper column, serves on a number of corporate boards, chairs several business ventures, and was chairman of Campaign America, a national political action committee.

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1996 - 1999 - Campaign America

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