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Senator, ambassador, and director of national intelligence — of Fort Wayne
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Daniel Ray Coats was born in Jackson, Michigan, on May 16, 1943. His Fort Wayne tie is his career. After Wheaton College, Army service from 1966 to 1968, and a law degree from Indiana University in 1971, he settled in Fort Wayne, began the practice of law there, and worked as an assistant vice president of a Fort Wayne life-insurance company. From 1976 to 1980 he was Congressman Dan Quayle's district representative, based in Fort Wayne; when Quayle ran for the Senate, Coats won the Fort Wayne-based House seat and held it from 1981 to 1989. Appointed to the U.S. Senate in 1989, he served there until 1999, was ambassador to Germany from 2001 to 2005, returned to the Senate from 2011 to 2017, and finished his public career as director of national intelligence from 2017 to 2019. The congressional directories of his era list him simply as "of Fort Wayne."
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Sources: U.S. House History, Art & Archives (biography); Congressional Directory for the 105th Congress, 1997–98 ("of Fort Wayne, IN").