Editing Dan Quayle (section)

==Congressional tenure==
[[File:Dan Quayle 1977.jpg|thumb|upright|Quayle in 1977, his first term in the House of Representatives]]
In 1976, Quayle was elected to the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] from [[Indiana's 4th congressional district]], defeating eight-term [[incumbent]] [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[J. Edward Roush]] by a 55%-to-45% margin.<ref name="General Election of 1976">{{Cite web|title=Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 2, 1976|url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electioninfo/1976election.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720124815/http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1976election.pdf|archive-date=July 20, 2011|access-date=December 22, 2019}}</ref> He was reelected in 1978, 64% to 34%.<ref name="General Election of 1978">{{Cite web|title=Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 1978|url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electioninfo/1978election.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111021081349/http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1978election.pdf|archive-date=October 21, 2011|access-date=December 22, 2019}}</ref>

In November 1978, Congressman [[Leo Ryan]] of California invited Quayle to accompany him on a delegation to investigate unsafe conditions at the [[Jonestown]] settlement in [[Guyana]], but Quayle was unable to participate. The decision likely saved Quayle's life, because Ryan and his entourage [[Jonestown massacre|were subsequently murdered]] at the airstrip in Jonestown as the party tried to escape the massacre.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Quayle|first=Dan|title=Standing Firm: A Vice-Presidential Memoir|publisher=Harpercollins|year=1995|isbn=0-06-109390-4|page=176|author-link=Dan Quayle}}</ref>

In [[1980 United States Senate election in Indiana|1980]], at age 33, Quayle became the youngest person ever elected to the [[United States Senate|Senate]] from the state of Indiana, defeating three-term incumbent Democrat [[Birch Bayh]] with 54% of the vote. Making Indiana political history again, Quayle was reelected to the Senate in [[1986 United States Senate election in Indiana|1986]] with the largest margin ever achieved to that date by a candidate in a statewide Indiana race, taking 61% of the vote against his Democratic opponent, [[Jill Long Thompson|Jill Long]].

In 1986, Quayle was criticized for championing the cause of [[Daniel Anthony Manion]], a candidate for a federal appellate judgeship, who was in law school one year ahead of Quayle. The [[American Bar Association]] had evaluated Manion as "qualified/unqualified", its lower passing grade.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/25/us/reagan-judges-get-lower-bar-rating.html | work=[[The New York Times]] | title=Reagan Judges Get Lower Bar Rating | date=May 25, 1986 | access-date=July 3, 2016 | archive-date=August 19, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819113350/http://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/25/us/reagan-judges-get-lower-bar-rating.html | url-status=live }}</ref> Manion was nominated for the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit|Seventh Circuit]] of the [[United States court of appeals|U.S. Court of Appeals]] by President [[Ronald Reagan]] on February 21, 1986, and confirmed by the Senate on June 26, 1986.<ref name="PostGazette">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Qa9RAAAAIBAJ&dq=daniel%20manion&pg=6717%2C6531359|title=Senate reaffirms Daniel Manion as judge, 50–49|date=July 24, 1986|work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|access-date=June 15, 2012|archive-date=February 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220218070104/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Qa9RAAAAIBAJ&dq=daniel%20manion&pg=6717%2C6531359|url-status=live}}</ref>