Former VP Dan Quayle '69 Donates Documents to Museum

July 17, 2001

July 17, 2001, Greencastle, Ind. - Dan Quayle, the former vice president of the United States and a 1969 graduate of DePauw University, was back in his hometown of Huntington, Indiana yesterday to announce a major gift. Quayle and his wife Marilyn are giving 425 boxes of political papers, manuscripts, books, files and artifacts from Quayle's political career to The Dan Quayle Center and Museum, located in Huntington.

"I think historians will have a field day with these papers," Quayle said. The 8 tons of materials had been housed in six storage bins. The boxes include old speeches, tapes of conversations and letters to political leaders.

Quayle served as vice president to President George H.W. Bush. Prior to that, Quayle served eight years in the U.S. Senate and two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. The materials span that 16 year stretch of time. "You have a composite of how the political process works from every office -- except the office of president," Quayle said.

While in Huntington, Mr. Quayle also took part in the seventh annual Quayle Center Classic, a golf outing that raised an estimated $90,000 for the museum.

You can read an Indianapolis Star story on Quayle's gift here.

An earlier Associated Press article can be accessed here.

The Quayle Center bills itself as America's only vice presidential museum, with artifacts from every veep in U.S. history. You can access the Dan Quayle Center and Museum's homepage here.

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