 Pulliam also became executive vice president of Central Newspapers, Inc., the media holding company his father founded in 1934.Dan Quayle, Eugene C. Pulliam's grandson and Eugene S. Pulliam's half nephew, served as the 44th Vice President of the United States from 1989 to 1993.Pulliam was born on September 7, 1914, in Atchison, Kansas, 
to Myrta (Smith) and Eugene C. Pulliam.