Vice President of the United States of America

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The Vice President of the United States of America is first in the order of succession to the presidency. While the only duty spelled out for the position in the Constitution is to preside over the Senate, other duties have been assumed over time.

## Election[edit]

Currently, the vice-president is elected together with the president, each elector voting for one man for president and another for vice-president. This system was mandated by the Twelfth Amendment, ratified in 1804. Previously, each elector had voted for two different people for president, and the runner-up had become vice-president. However, this system broke down in the election of 1800, when Thomas Jefferson, the Jeffersonian Republican presidential candidate, tied with Aaron Burr, his running mate.

## List of vice-presidents[edit]

Vice-presidents have included some "remarkable individuals":[1]

Vice President  | Years  | State  | Party  | President(s)

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1\. John Adams | 1789-1797  | Massachusetts | Federalist[2] | Washington
2\. Thomas Jefferson | 1797-1801  | Virginia | Republican (Jeffersonian)[3] | Adams
3\. Aaron Burr | 1801-1805  | New York | Republican (Jeffersonian)  | Jefferson
4\. George Clinton | 1805-1812  | New York | Republican (Jeffersonian)  | Jefferson, Madison
5\. Elbridge Gerry | 1813-1814  | Massachusetts | Republican (Jeffersonian)  | Madison
6\. Daniel D. Tompkins | 1817-1825  | New York | Republican (Jeffersonian)  | Monroe
7\. John C. Calhoun | 1825-1832  | South Carolina | Republican (Jeffersonian), Democrat  | Adams, Jackson
8\. Martin Van Buren | 1833-1837  | New York | Democrat  | Jackson
9\. Richard M. Johnson | 1837-1841  | Kentucky | Democrat  | Van Buren
10\. John Tyler | 1841  | Virginia | Whig  | Harrison
11\. George Dallas | 1845-1849  | Pennsylvania | Democrat  | Polk
12\. Millard Fillmore | 1849-1850  | New York | Whig  | Taylor
13\. William King | 1853  | Alabama | Democrat  | Pierce
14\. John C. Breckinridge | 1857-1861  | Kentucky | Democrat  | Buchanan
15\. Hannibal Hamlin | 1861-1865  | Maine | Republican  | Lincoln
16\. Andrew Johnson | 1865  | Tennessee | Democrat[4] | Lincoln
17\. Schuyler Colfax | 1869-1873  | Indiana | Republican  | Grant
18\. Henry Wilson | 1873-1875  | Massachusetts | Republican  | Grant
19\. William Wheeler | 1877-1881  | New York | Republican  | Hayes
20\. Chester Arthur | 1881  | New York | Republican  | Garfield
21\. Thomas Hendricks | 1885  | Indiana | Democrat  | Cleveland
22\. Levi P. Morton | 1889-1893  | New York | Republican  | Harrison
23\. Adlai Ewing Stevenson | 1893-1897  | Illinois | Democrat  | Cleveland
24\. Garret Hobart | 1897-1899  | New Jersey | Republican  | McKinley
25\. Theodore Roosevelt | 1901  | New York | Republican  | McKinley
26\. Charles Fairbanks | 1905-1909  | Indiana | Republican  | Roosevelt
27\. James S. Sherman | 1909-1912  | New York | Republican  | Taft
28\. Thomas R. Marshall | 1913-1921  | Indiana | Democrat  | Wilson
29\. Calvin Coolidge | 1921-1923  | Massachusetts | Republican  | Harding
30\. Charles Dawes | 1925-1929  | Illinois | Republican  | Coolidge
31\. Charles Curtis | 1929-1933  | Kansas | Republican  | Hoover
32\. John Nance Garner | 1933-1941  | Texas | Democrat  | Roosevelt
33\. Henry Wallace | 1941-1945  | Iowa | Democrat  | Roosevelt
34\. Harry Truman | 1945  | Missouri | Democrat  | Roosevelt
35\. Alben Barkley | 1949-1953  | Kentucky | Democrat  | Truman
36\. Richard Nixon | 1953-1961  | California | Republican  | Eisenhower
37\. Lyndon Johnson | 1961-1963  | Texas | Democrat  | Kennedy
38\. Hubert Humphrey | 1965-1969  | Minnesota | Democrat  | Johnson
39\. Spiro Agnew | 1969-1973  | Maryland | Republican  | Nixon
40\. Gerald Ford | 1973-1974  | Michigan | Republican  | Nixon
41\. Nelson Rockefeller | 1974-1977  | New York | Republican  | Ford
42\. Walter Mondale | 1977-1981  | Minnesota | Democrat  | Carter
43\. George H. W. Bush | 1981-1989  | Texas | Republican  | Reagan
44\. Dan Quayle | 1989-1993  | Indiana | Republican  | Bush
45\. Al Gore | 1993-2001  | Tennessee | Democrat  | Clinton
46\. Dick Cheney | 2001-2009  | Wyoming | Republican  | Bush
47\. Joseph Biden | 2009-2017  | Delaware | Democrat  | Obama
48\. Michael Pence | 2017-2021  | Indiana | Republican  | Trump
49\. Kamala Harris (disputed)[5] | 2021- | California | Democrat  | Biden

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ [1]
2. ↑ While Washington was elected unanimously, by 1792, the two parties were running separate candidates for vice-president.
3. ↑ This was before the Twelfth Amendment; Jefferson was actually the losing candidate for president. President Adams was a Federalist.
4. ↑ Lincoln and Johnson were officially running on a "National Union" ticket, formed of Republicans and War Democrats. Lincoln was a Republican; Johnson a Democrat.
5. ↑ Harris is not legitimately the "vice-president" as she is not legally qualified to hold the office due to not being a natural-born citizen, a legal requirement under Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution; her parents, a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, never obtained US citizenship prior to her birth.

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Vice Presidents of the United States

J.Adams • Jefferson • Burr • G.Clinton • Gerry • Tompkins • Calhoun • Van Buren • R. Johnson • Tyler • Dallas • Fillmore • King • Breckinridge • Hamlin • A. Johnson • Colfax • H.Wilson • Wheeler • Arthur • Hendricks • Morton • Stevenson • Hobart • T.Roosevelt • Fairbanks • Sherman • Marshall • Coolidge • Dawes • Curtis • Garner • Wallace • Truman • Barkley • Nixon • L. Johnson • Humphrey • Agnew • Ford • Rockefeller • Mondale • Bush • Quayle • Gore • Cheney • Biden • Pence