EDITOR’S NOTE: Watch “TV on the Edge: Moments That Shaped Our Culture” tonight at 9 p.m. ET on CNN. The four-part series runs through October 13. The fervor over GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance ...

Quayle joins George Bush on stage in New Orleans after being announced as Bush’s vice presidential pick, Aug. 16, 1988. (Bettman Archive / Corbis via Getty Images) Quayle was born in Indianapolis in ...

George H.W. Bush, who was then vice president, selected the little-known 41-year-old U.S. Sen. Dan Quayle of Indiana as his running mate when Bush ran for president in 1988. The boyish-looking Quayle ...

The last time a young senator from the Midwest was selected as the Vice Presidential nominee for a major party, all eyes were on Dan Quayle, and WISH-TV was at the Republican National Convention to ...