Martha Quayle

Martha Corinne Quayle (née Pulliam; June 12, 1922 – November 27, 2014) was an American newspaper publisher and businesswoman who owned several newspapers in the United States including the Huntington Herald-Press in Indiana and the Wickenburg Sun in Arizona with her husband James C. Quayle. She is the mother of the 44th Vice President of the United States, Dan Quayle and the mother-in law of Second Lady of the United States, Marilyn Quayle.

Early life Pulliam was born on June 12, 1922, to Eugene C. Pulliam and his second wife Martha Ott. She was born in Franklin, Indiana, and grew up in nearby Lebanon.

Quayle earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1943 from DePauw University, where she was active in wartime service clubs and the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.

Quayle also served on the board of the Salvation Army and was active in the Tri-Kappa sorority.

Her father, Eugene C. Pulliam, was a longtime owner and publisher of The Arizona Republic and The Indianapolis Star.

The "Pulliam era" began in Arizona in 1946 when Eugene C. Pulliam bought The Republic, the Phoenix Gazette and the Arizona Weekly Gazette, later the Arizona Business Gazette, in a $4 million deal.

Career After her marriage, she and her husband moved to Arizona in 1978, where Quayle was a founding member of the Humane Society of Wickenburg and helped build the present animal shelter there. She was also a member of the Desert Caballeros Western Museum in Wickenburg.

Taking after her father, Quayle and her husband owned and published the Huntington Herald-Press in Huntington, Indiana, and later the Wickenburg Sun in Arizona.

Death Quayle died from natural causes on November 27, 2014.