John Nance Garner once described the job as "not worth a bucketful of warm spit."
Yet 14 of the 45 men who have held the office of Vice President either succeeded to the presidency upon the death or resignation of the president or became president later by their own election. Another 3 vice presidents were later nominated for president themselves by major parties, only to lose the general election.
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Vice presidents who served are listed in election year order. To learn more about a vice president, click on his name.
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Elected
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Vice President
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Party
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Term Began
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President
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1789
1792
1796
1800
1804
1808
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John Adams
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Aaron Burr
George Clinton
George Clinton
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F
F
DR
DR
DR
DR
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04-30-1789
03-04-1793
03-04-1797
03-04-1801
03-04-1805
03-04-1809
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(1)
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Washington
Washington
J. Adams
Jefferson
Jefferson
Madison
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1812
1816
1820
1824
1828
1832
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Elbridge Gerry
Daniel D. Tompkins
Daniel D. Tompkins
John C. Calhoun
John C. Calhoun
Martin Van Buren
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DR
DR
DR
DR
DR
DR
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03-04-1813
03-04-1817
03-04-1821
03-04-1825
03-04-1829
03-04-1833
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(2)
(3)
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Madison
Monroe
Monroe
J.Q. Adams
Jackson
Jackson
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1836
1840
1844
1848
1852
1856
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Richard M. Johnson
John Tyler
George M. Dallas
Millard Fillmore
William R. King
John C. Breckinridge
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D
(4)
D
W
D
D
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03-04-1837
03-04-1841
03-04-1845
03-04-1849
03-04-1853
03-04-1857
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(5)
(6)
(7)
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Van Buren
W. Harrison
Polk
Taylor
Pierce
Buchanan
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1860
1864
1868
1872
1876
1880
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Hannibal Hamlin
Andrew Johnson
Schuyler Colfax
Henry Wilson
William A. Wheeler
Chester A. Arthur
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R
(8)
R
R
R
R
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03-04-1861
03-04-1865
03-04-1869
03-04-1873
03-04-1877
03-04-1881
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(9)
(10)
(11)
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Lincoln
Lincoln
Grant
Grant
Hayes
Garfield
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1884
1888
1892
1896
1900
1904
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Thomas A. Hendricks
Levi P. Morton
Adlai E. Stevenson
Garret A. Hobart
Theodore Roosevelt
Charles W. Fairbanks
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D
R
D
R
R
R
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03-04-1885
03-04-1889
03-04-1893
03-04-1897
03-04-1901
03-04-1905
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(12)
(13)
(14)
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Cleveland
B. Harrison
Cleveland
McKinley
McKinley
T. Roosevelt
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1908
1912
1916
1920
1924
1928
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James S. Sherman
Thomas R. Marshall
Thomas R. Marshall
Calvin Coolidge
Charles G. Dawes
Charles Curtis
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R
D
D
R
R
R
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03-04-1909
03-04-1913
03-04-1917
03-04-1921
03-04-1925
03-04-1929
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(15)
(16)
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Taft
Wilson
Wilson
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
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1932
1936
1940
1944
1948
1952
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John N. Garner
John N. Garner
Henry A. Wallace
Harry S Truman
Alben Barkley
Richard M. Nixon
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D
D
D
D
D
R
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03-04-1933
01-20-1937
01-20-1941
01-20-1945
01-20-1949
01-20-1953
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(17)
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F. Roosevelt
F. Roosevelt
F. Roosevelt
F. Roosevelt
Truman
Eisenhower
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1956
1960
1964
1968
1972
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Richard M. Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
Hubert H. Humphrey
Spiro T. Agnew
Spiro T. Agnew
Gerald R. Ford
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R
D
D
R
R
R
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01-20-1957
01-20-1961
01-20-1965
01-20-1969
01-20-1973
12-06-1973
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(18)
(19)
(20)
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Eisenhower
Kennedy
L. Johnson
Nixon
Nixon
Nixon
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1976
1980
1984
1988
1992
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Nelson A. Rockefeller
Walter F. Mondale
George H.W. Bush
George H.W. Bush
J. Danforth Quayle
Albert A. Gore, Jr.
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R
D
R
R
R
D
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12-19-1974
01-20-1977
01-20-1981
01-20-1985
01-20-1989
01-20-1993
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(21)
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Ford
Carter
Reagan
Reagan
G.H.W. Bush
Clinton
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1996
2001
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Albert A. Gore, Jr.
Richard B. Cheney
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D
R
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01-20-1997
01-20-2001
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Clinton
G.W. Bush
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Notes:
Party Abbrv.:
F - Federalist; DR - Democrat-Republican; D - Democrat; W - Whig; R - Republican
(1) Died in office, 4-20-1812.
(2) Died in office, 11-23-1814.
(3) Resigned, 12-28-1832, to become U.S. Senator from Kentucky.
(4) Tyler was a Democrat, who ran on the Whig party ticket in 1840 headed by William Harrison.
(5) Succeeded to presidency upon William H. Harrison's death, 4-6-1841.
(6) Succeeded to presidency upon Zachary Taylor's death, 7-10-1850.
(7) Died in office, 4-18-1853.
(8) Succeeded to presidency upon Abraham Lincoln's death, 4-15-1865.
(9) Johnson was a pro-Union Democrat, nominated by Republicans for vice president and elected with Lincoln on the National Union ticket.
(10) Died in office, 11-22-1875.
(11) Succeeded to presidency upon James Garfield's death, 9-20-1881.
(12) Died in office, 11-25-1885.
(13) Died in office, 11-21-1899.
(14) Succeeded to presidency upon William McKinley's death, 9-14-1901.
(15) Died in office, 10-30-1912.
(16) Succeeded to presidency upon Warren Harding's death, 8-3-1923.
(17) Succeeded to presidency upon Franklin Roosevelt's death, 4-12-1945.
(18) Succeeded to presidency upon John Kennedy's death, 11-22-1963.
(19) Resigned 10-10-1973. In August 1973 it was revealed that federal prosecutors were investigating Vice President Spiro Agnew over an alleged kickback scheme conducted while Agnew was county executive and governor of Maryland. After striking a deal with prosecutors, Agnew agreed to resign, plead no contest to one charge of income tax evasion, pay a fine of $10,000 and be sentenced to three-years probation.
(20) Gerald Ford became the first Vice President to be nominated by the President and confirmed by the Congress pursuant to the Twenty-fifth Amendment. Ford took the oath of office on 12-6-1973.
(21) Nelson Rockefeller became the second Vice President to be nominated by the President and confirmed by the Congress pursuant to the Twenty-fifth Amendment. Rockefeller took the oath of office on 12-19-1974.
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