Marilyn Tucker Quayle Speaker & Booking Information

Marilyn Tucker Quayle is an American lawyer and novelist. She is the wife of the 44th Vice President of the United States, Dan Quayle and served as Second Lady of the United States from 1989 until 1993.

She and Dan moved back to Huntington, Indiana and opened a joint law practice, Quayle and Quayle. She did most of the legal work; he worked for his father's newspaper and prepared to enter politics. In 1976 he was elected to Congress as a Republican, whereupon they suspended their law practice. In 1980 he was elected to the Senate. In 1988 Dan was elected Vice President on George H. W. Bush's ticket. Throughout her husband's political career, Marilyn was "always her husband's closest and most candid advisor." She campaigned independently during the presidential campaign. During the 1988 campaign she was often portrayed in the press as smart, cold, and tough - the power behind her husband. But as Second Lady she played a mostly traditional role as hostess, while being an active and involved mother to their three young children. She also worked for causes such as early diagnosis of breast cancer. With her sister Nancy she also published a novel, Embrace the Serpent, a thriller about the wife of a vice president. During the 1992 presidential campaign, Marilyn Quayle was an active campaigner, delivering a speech at the Republican National Convention and spending more than 40 days on the campaign trail. In her speeches she took a strong "family values" theme, and she was very popular with conservatives.