Quayle Would Like to See Wife Serve Rest of His Senate Term
Vice President-elect Dan Quayle met Monday with Indiana Gov. Robert D. Orr to discuss candidates for his Senate seat and later boosted his wife, Marilyn, for the job.
“Mrs. Quayle would make an outstanding United States senator,” Quayle said at an impromptu news conference outside the Hart Senate Office Building.
But the junior senator from Indiana, elected vice president last Tuesday, stressed that the decision would be left to Orr, who will make the appointment before he leaves office Jan. 9. Orr will be succeeded by Indiana Secretary of State Evan Bayh, a Democrat.
During his hour meeting with Orr at Quayle’s transition office, the vice president-elect told the Republican governor that he plans to resign his Senate seat before Jan. 3--when new senators will be sworn in for the 101st Congress. A replacement for Quayle, who was elected in 1986 to a second term, would serve until a special election is held in 1990.
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