Daniel Ray Coats was born on May 16,1943 and is an American politician, attorney, and diplomat.
55 Facts About Dan Coats
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Dan Coats was the United States Ambassador to Germany from 2001 to 2005, and a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1989.
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Dan Coats represented Indiana's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1989.
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Dan Coats was appointed to fill the Senate seat vacated by Dan Quayle following Quayle's election as Vice President of the United States.
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Dan Coats won the 1990 special election to serve the remainder of Quayle's unexpired term, as well as the 1992 election for a full six-year term.
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Dan Coats did not seek reelection in 1998 and was succeeded by Democrat Evan Bayh.
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Dan Coats declined to run for reelection in 2016 and was succeeded by Todd Young.
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Dan Coats was nominated as Director of National Intelligence in January 2017, succeeding James R Clapper.
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Dan Coats was born in Jackson, Michigan, the son of Vera Elisabeth and Edward Raymond Dan Coats.
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Dan Coats's father was of English and German descent, and his maternal grandparents emigrated from Sweden.
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Dan Coats attended local public schools, and graduated from Jackson High School in 1961.
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Dan Coats then studied at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1965.
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Dan Coats served in the United States Army Corps of Engineers from 1966 to 1968.
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Dan Coats served as assistant vice president of a Fort Wayne life insurance company.
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When Quayle decided to challenge three-term Democratic incumbent Birch Bayh in the 1980 US Senate election, Dan Coats ran for and won Quayle's seat in the US House.
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Dan Coats was reelected four times from this Fort Wayne-based district, usually without serious difficulty.
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When Quayle resigned from the Senate after being elected Vice President of the United States in 1988, Dan Coats, who had just been elected to a fifth term in the House, was appointed to Quayle's former seat.
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Dan Coats subsequently won a special election in 1990 for the balance of Quayle's second term, and was elected to a full term in 1992.
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Dan Coats declined to run for a second full term in 1998.
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Dan Coats served in the Senate until January 1999, at which time he was succeeded by Evan Bayh.
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Dan Coats announced on February 3,2010, he would run for his old Senate seat; and on February 16,2010, Bayh announced his intention to retire.
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Dan Coats served on the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
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Dan Coats worked as special counsel member in the firm Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand in 2000 and 2001.
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In 2001, Coats was reportedly one of George W Bush's top choices to be secretary of defense, a job eventually given to Donald Rumsfeld who had previously held the post under President Gerald Ford.
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From August 15,2001, to February 28,2005, Dan Coats was United States ambassador to Germany.
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In 2005, Coats drew attention when he was chosen by President George W Bush to shepherd Harriet Miers's failed nomination to the Supreme Court through the Senate.
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In 2007, Dan Coats served as co-chairman of a team of lobbyists for Cooper Industries, a Texas corporation that moved its principal place of business to Bermuda, where it would not be liable for US taxes.
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On January 5,2017, Coats was announced as then-President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for the Cabinet-level position of Director of National Intelligence, to succeed the outgoing James R Clapper.
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Dan Coats's confirmation hearing was held on February 28,2017, to the United States Senate Intelligence Committee.
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On September 6,2018, Director Dan Coats denied that he had authored the anonymous op-ed piece from a senior Trump Administration official that criticized the President which had been published by The New York Times the day prior.
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The day before, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell speculated that Dan Coats was the author of the guest essay, which was later revealed to have been written by then-United States Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor.
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Dan Coats released the DNI's "Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community" on January 29,2019, listing the major threats to the United States.
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In July 2019, Dan Coats appointed an election security "czar," Shelby Pierson, to oversee efforts across intelligence agencies.
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Dan Coats directed other intelligence agencies to appoint executives to coordinate election security.
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On July 28,2019, following multiple anonymous reports that he was about to be let go, Trump announced on Twitter that Dan Coats would depart on August 15 and that he would nominate US Representative John Ratcliffe to replace him as Director of National Intelligence.
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Dan Coats supported Feinstein Amendment 1152 to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1993.
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Dan Coats voted with 40 Republicans and five Democrats to stop the passage of the bill.
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In 1995, Coats introduced S 568: Family, Investment, Retirement, Savings, and Tax Fairness Act which would provide "family tax credits, increase national savings through individual retirement plus accounts, indexing for inflation the income thresholds for taxing social security benefits, etc".
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In 1993, Dan Coats emerged as an opponent of President Clinton's effort to allow LGBT individuals to serve openly in the armed forces.
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Dan Coats was one of the authors of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy and opposed its 2011 repeal.
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Dan Coats pressed President Barack Obama to punish Russia harshly for its March 2014 annexation of Crimea.
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In January 2019, Dan Coats warned against the alliance between Russia and China.
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Dan Coats supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq on the grounds of uncovering what he believed to be Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
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Dan Coats described Iran as the foremost "state sponsor of terrorism".
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In September 2016, in advance of a UN Security Council resolution 2334 condemning Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, Dan Coats signed an AIPAC-sponsored letter urging President Barack Obama to veto "one-sided" resolutions against Israel.
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In 1996, Dan Coats co-sponsored the Line Item Veto Act of 1996, which President Clinton signed into law.
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On February 10,2010, Dan Coats confirmed that he would return to Indiana to run for the seat held by incumbent Evan Bayh in the 2010 United States Senate election.
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Bayh had made no previous announcements and was fully expected to run for another term, but after Dan Coats announced his candidacy, Bayh announced his retirement on February 15,2010.
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On May 4,2010, Dan Coats won the Republican primary over State Senator Marlin Stutzman and former US Representative John Hostettler.
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Dan Coats defeated Democratic US Representative Brad Ellsworth by a 15-point margin to return to the Senate.
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Dan Coats became the senior senator from Indiana after Richard Lugar lost a challenge in the 2012 Republican primary election and subsequently was not re-elected to the Senate in 2012.
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Dan Coats served the remainder of his term with Democrat Joe Donnelly.
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Dan Coats is married to Marsha Coats, Indiana's woman representative to the Republican National Committee.
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Dan Coats received the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America's Charles G Berwind Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.
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In 2015, Dan Coats received the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site Advancing American Democracy Award.