Dan Coats

Dan Coats
5th Director of National Intelligence
In office March 16, 2017 – August 15, 2019
President	Donald Trump
Deputy	Susan M. Gordon
Preceded by	James Clapper
Succeeded by	John Ratcliffe
Chair of the Joint Economic Committee
In office January 3, 2015 – January 3, 2017
Preceded by	Kevin Brady
Succeeded by	Pat Tiberi
United States Senator from Indiana
In office January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2017
Preceded by	Evan Bayh
Succeeded by	Todd Young
In office January 3, 1989 – January 3, 1999
Preceded by	Dan Quayle
Succeeded by	Evan Bayh
United States Ambassador to Germany
In office August 15, 2001 – February 28, 2005
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	John C. Kornblum
Succeeded by	William R. Timken
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 4th district
In office January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1989
Preceded by	Dan Quayle
Succeeded by	Jill Long Thompson
Personal details
Born	Daniel Ray Coats (1943-05-16) May 16, 1943 (age 81) Jackson, Michigan, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Marsha Coats ​ (m. 1965)​
Children	3
Education	Wheaton College (BA) Indiana University, Indianapolis (JD)
Military service
Branch/service	United States Army
Years of service	1966–1968
Rank	Staff Sergeant
Dan Coats's voice Dan Coats testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on North Korea and Iran Recorded January 29, 2019

Daniel Ray Coats (born May 16, 1943) is an American politician, attorney, and diplomat. From 2017 to 2019, he served as the Director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1989 to 1999 and again from 2011 to 2017. He 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. Coats served on the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence while in the U.S. Senate.

Born in Jackson, Michigan, Coats graduated from Wheaton College in Illinois and the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis. He served in the U.S. Army from 1966 to 1968. Coats represented Indiana's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1989. He was appointed to fill the Senate seat vacated by Dan Quayle following Quayle's election as Vice President of the United States. 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. He did not seek reelection in 1998 and was succeeded by Democrat Evan Bayh.

After retiring from the Senate, Coats served as U.S. ambassador to Germany from 2001 to 2005 and then worked as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. He was reelected to the Senate by a large margin in 2010, succeeding Bayh, who announced his own retirement shortly after Coats declared his candidacy. Coats declined to run for reelection in 2016 and was succeeded by Todd Young. He was nominated as Director of National Intelligence in January 2017, succeeding James R. Clapper.^[1] His term in office commenced on March 16, 2017, and ended on August 15, 2019.^[2][3][4][5]