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Dan Quayle is a
politician from the state of
Indiana. Quayle represented
Indiana's 4th congressional district in the
United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1981. Quayle upset 3-term incumbent
United States Senator
Birch Bayh in
1980 as part of the
Republican landslide, which saw the party gain 12 seats and the majority in the
United States Senate and
Ronald Reagan elected
president. In 1988, Quayle was chosen by
U.S. Vice President
George H. W. Bush, the
Republican presidential nominee as his running mate and elected the nation's 44th vice president, serving from January 20, 1989 to January 20, 1993.
United States House of Representatives
United States Senate
Presidential elections
1988
1992
Electoral results
Presidential candidate
|
Party
|
Home state
|
Popular vote
|
Electoral vote
|
Running mate
|
Count
|
Percentage
|
Vice-presidential candidate
|
Home state
|
Electoral vote
|
Bill Clinton
|
Democratic
|
Arkansas
|
44,909,806
|
43.01%
|
370
|
Albert A. Gore Jr.
|
Tennessee
|
370
|
George H. W. Bush (I)
|
Republican
|
Texas
|
39,104,550
|
37.45%
|
168
|
Dan Quayle (I)
|
Indiana
|
168
|
Ross Perot
|
Independent
|
Texas
|
19,743,821
|
18.91%
|
0
|
James Stockdale
|
California
|
0
|
Andre Verne Marrou
|
Libertarian
|
Alaska
|
290,087
|
0.28%
|
0
|
Nancy Lord
|
Nevada
|
0
|
Bo Gritz
|
Populist
|
Nevada
|
106,152
|
0.10%
|
0
|
Cy Minett
|
New Mexico
|
0
|
Lenora Fulani
|
New Alliance Party
|
New York
|
73,622
|
0.07%
|
0
|
Maria Munoz
|
California
|
0
|
Howard Phillips
|
U.S. Taxpayers Party
|
Virginia
|
43,369
|
0.04%
|
0
|
Albion Knight, Jr.
|
Florida
|
0
|
Other
|
152,516
|
0.13%
|
—
|
Other
|
—
|
Total
|
104,423,923
|
100%
|
538
|
|
538
|
Needed to win
|
270
|
|
270
|
See also
References