Ben Quayle

Ben Quayle (Official Photo of the 112th US Congress)

Benjamin "Ben" Eugene Quayle (* 5. November 1976 in Fort Wayne , Indiana ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . The lawyer was a member of the US House of Representatives from Arizona from 2011 to 2013 .

Life

Quayle, the second child of former US Vice President Dan Quayle and the lawyer Marilyn Quayle , studied after visiting the St. Albans School and the Gonzaga College High School in Washington, DC from 1994 to 1998 history at Duke University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA History). He then completed a law degree at Vanderbilt University in 2002 as a Juris Doctor and was subsequently admitted to the bar in the states of Arizona , California and New York .

Between 2004 and 2005 he was initially a lawyer at Schulte Roth & Zabel , a law firm in New York City with 360 employees. After working in the property sales department of Snell & Wilmer , he was Managing Partner of APG Security and Managing Director of Tynwald Capital from 2007 to 2010 .

In the 2010 elections in the United States he ran for the 3rd Congressional constituency of Arizona and presented himself during his election campaign as a conservative Republican who spoke out against abortion and homosexual rights and at the same time advocated liberal gun law . Furthermore, he promised to work for the security of the state borders , the recovery of jobs and the reduction of uncontrolled government spending.

As the successor to John Shadegg , he officially became a member of the House of Representatives on January 3, 2011 . After the regular redesign of the constituencies in the wake of the 2010 census, his colleague from the fifth constituency, David Schweikert , competed against him in the internal party primary for his previous congress seat and narrowly defeated Quayle. Therefore, Quayle's term ended on January 3, 2013 with the meeting of the 113th Congress. Quayle was a member of the Committee on Internal Security ( US House Committee on Homeland Security ) and the Legal Committee ( US House Committee on the Judiciary ) .

Web links

• Ben Quayle in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Ben Quayle in the nndb (English)