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Dan Quayle

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James Danforth Quayle (; born February 4, 1947) is an American retired politician who served as the 44th vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993 under President George H. W. Bush. A member of the Republican Party, Quayle represented Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1981 and in the U.S. Senate from 1981 to 1989. A native of Indianapolis, Quayle spent most of his childhood in Paradise Valley, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona. He married Marilyn Tucker in 1972 and obtained his J.D. degree from the Indiana University Robert H. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dan Quayle has received more than 8,250,222 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Dan Quayle is the 7,476th most popular politician (up from 7,934th in 2019), the 2,446th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,779th in 2019) and the 161st most popular American Politician.

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  • 67

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  • 2.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Dan Quayle ranks 7,476 out of 19,576. Before him are Faina Ranevskaya, Pandarus, Mithridates III of Pontus, Einar Thambarskelfir, Olena Zelenska, and Rafael Casanova. After him are Piero Soderini, Hans Globke, Rudolf II, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg, Kuyucu Murad Pasha, Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, and Kim Yong-il.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Dan Quayle ranks 161. Before him are Martin Chalfie, John Adams, Rob Reiner, Halldór Ásgrímsson, Mia Martini, and Sandie Shaw. After him are Kiki Camarena, Patrice Leconte, Chris Wallace, Jeff Lynne, Helena Vondráčková, and Eric F. Wieschaus.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dan Quayle ranks 2,446 out of 20,380. Before him are Joe Dante (1946), Frances Arnold (1956), Jaclyn Smith (1945), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), John Milnor (1931), and Henry Winkler (1945). After him are Henry George (1839), P. G. T. Beauregard (1818), Robert James Waller (1939), Grace Moore (1898), John G. Thompson (1932), and Al Oerter (1936).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Dan Quayle ranks 161. Before him are Bess Truman (1885), Dwight F. Davis (1879), Stacey Abrams (1973), John Connally (1917), Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1891), and John Hancock (1737). After him are Jeb Bush (1953), Harry Dexter White (1892), Thomas R. Marshall (1854), James Baker (1930), John C. Calhoun (1782), and Nicholas Murray Butler (1862).

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