The Family Quayle CITY Edition

By that time, [Marilyn Quayle] had already branched out to a family of his own making. In 1972, a friend introduced him to fellow Indiana University law student Marilyn Tucker, a brainy daughter of two physicians. Ten weeks later, they were wed. In 1974, they opened a joint law practice, Quayle and...

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Published inNewsday
Main Author By Karen Freifeld and Rita Giordano. STAFF WRITERS
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 16.06.1992
EditionCombined editions
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Beckwith, David
Quayle, Dan
Quayle, Marilyn
Tucker, Marilyn
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Summary:By that time, [Marilyn Quayle] had already branched out to a family of his own making. In 1972, a friend introduced him to fellow Indiana University law student Marilyn Tucker, a brainy daughter of two physicians. Ten weeks later, they were wed. In 1974, they opened a joint law practice, Quayle and Quayle, but [Dan Quayle] was mostly engaged in the family newspaper business. So Marilyn ran the practice. Although Marilyn mostly gave up her career to boost her husband's and raise her family, as did her mother before her, many say she's still in charge, a chief adviser to her husband. According to a 1987 Vanity Fair article, Marilyn may be the architect of Dan's family-values fixation. After a 1981 sex-for-votes scandal involving congressmen buzzed near but didn't sting Quayle, a family friend said Marilyn told her husband: "The way you stay out of this is to make a real effort to go to the ball game, to concentrate on the family."