Dan Coats Biography

Dan Coats returned to the U.S. Senate in January 2011 to focus on cutting wasteful spending reducing the national debt and promoting a pro-growth economic policy to put Hoosiers and Americans back to work. Senator Coats has dedicated much of his life to serving Indiana and the nation in a variety of roles.
After graduating from Wheaton College Coats went on to serve in the U.S. Army. Following his military service Coats attended the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law where he received his J.D. and was associate editor of the Indiana Law Review. He went on to work for a life insurance company in Fort Wayne before joining the office of then-Congressman Dan Quayle as a district representative. From 1981 to 1999 Coats served in the United States Congress first in the House of Representatives and then in the Senate. During his time in Congress Coats promoted policies to lower taxes reduce spending and reform entitlement programs. He also served on the Senate Armed Services Committee and Select Committee on Intelligence where he worked on ways to strengthen our national defense and security.
In keeping with a term-limits pledge he made to Hoosiers Coats stepped down from his Senate seat in 1999. After leaving the Senate he worked in the private sector with the law firm of Verner Liipfert Bernhard McPherson and Hand. In 2001 Coats was named Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany arriving in country only three days before the tragic events of September 11 2001. As Ambassador Coats played a critical role in establishing robust relations with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and in the construction of a new United States Embassy in the heart of Berlin.

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