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Aaron Burr
   served as Vice-President under   
Thomas Jefferson
Acquited from treason charges... killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. 3rd Vice President of the United States. His father Aaron Burr, Sr. was the second President of Princton University.


Adlai E. Stevenson
   served as Vice-President under   
Grover Cleveland
Father of Adlai Stevenson II, unsuccessful Dem candidate for President in 1952 and 1956


Alben W. Barkley
   served as Vice-President under   
Harry S. Truman

Al Gore
   served as Vice-President under   
Bill Clinton
Unsuccessful candidate for the Presidency in 2000.


Andrew Johnson
   served as Vice-President under   
Abraham Lincoln
Later as President, Johnson was impeached, tried and acquited.


Calvin Coolidge
   served as Vice-President under   
Warren G. Harding
Succeeded to the Presidency upon the death of Harding on Aug 2, 1923


Charles Curtis
   served as Vice-President under   
Herbert Hoover
Charles Curtis was American Indian by his mother from the Kaw tribe.


Charles G. Dawes
   served as Vice-President under   
Calvin Coolidge
Wrote "Melody In A" which was the music for Tommy Edward's hit song in 1958 "All In The Game". Dawes wrote the music in 1912. His greatgrandfather was William Dawes who rode to warn the colonists on 4-18-1775 in conjunction with Paul Revere.


Charles W. Fairbanks
   served as Vice-President under   
Theodore Roosevelt

Chester A. Arthur
   served as Vice-President under   
James A. Garfield
Succeeded to the Presidency at the assassination of Garfield, July 2, 1881


Daniel Tompkins
   served as Vice-President under   
James Monroe

Dick Cheney
   served as Vice-President under   
George W. Bush

Dan Quayle
   served as Vice-President under   
George H. W. Bush

Elbridge Gerry
   served as Vice-President under   
James Madison
Died in office, Nov. 23, 1814


Garret Hobart
   served as Vice-President under   
William McKinley
Died in office


George Clinton
   served as Vice-President under   
James Madison

George Clinton
   served as Vice-President under   
Thomas Jefferson / James Madison
Died in office, April 20, 1812


George Dallas
   served as Vice-President under   
James K. Polk

George H. W. Bush
   served as Vice-President under   
Ronald Reagan
Acted as President under the provisions of the 25th Amendment


Gerald Ford
   served as Vice-President under   
Richard Nixon
Succeeded to the Presidency at the resignation of Nixon after the Watergate scandal.


Hannibal Hamlin
   served as Vice-President under   
Abraham Lincoln
First Republican VP


Harry S. Truman
   served as Vice-President under   
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Succeeded to the Presidency upon the death of Roosevelt in 1945


Henry A. Wallace
   served as Vice-President under   
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Henry Wilson
   served as Vice-President under   
Ulysses S. Grant
Died in office


Hubert H. Humphrey II
   served as Vice-President under   
Lyndon B. Johnson

James S. Sherman
   served as Vice-President under   
William H. Taft
Died in office


John Adams
   served as Vice-President under   
George Washington
Was sworn in as VP nine days before the President


John Breckinridge
   served as Vice-President under   
James Buchanan

John Calhoun
   served as Vice-President under   
John Quincy Adams

John Calhoun
   served as Vice-President under   
John Quincy Adams / Andrew Jackson
Resigned from office


John N. Garner
   served as Vice-President under   
Franklin D. Roosevelt

John Tyler
   served as Vice-President under   
William Henry Harrison
Succeeded to Presidency at the death of Harrison, the shortest term in history


Levi Morton
   served as Vice-President under   
Benjamin Harrison

Lyndon B. Johnson
   served as Vice-President under   
John F. Kennedy
Succeeded to the Presidency upon the assassination of Kennedy, Nov 22, 1963


Martin Van Buren
   served as Vice-President under   
Andrew Jackson
The first Democrat VP


Millard Fillmore
   served as Vice-President under   
Zachary Taylor

Nelson A. Rockefeller
   served as Vice-President under   
Gerald R. Ford
Became VP under provisions of the 25th Amendment


Richard Johnson
   served as Vice-President under   
Martin Van Buren

Richard Nixon
   served as Vice-President under   
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Schuyler Colfax
   served as Vice-President under   
Ulysses S. Grant

Spiro Agnew
   served as Vice-President under   
Richard Nixon
Resigned from office


Theodore Roosevelt
   served as Vice-President under   
William McKinley
Succeeded to the Presidency upon the assassination of McKinley, Sept. 6, 1901


Thomas Hendricks
   served as Vice-President under   
Grover Cleveland
Died in office


Thomas Jefferson
   served as Vice-President under   
John Adams
Jefferson and Adams died the same day, July 4, 1826.


Thomas R. Marshall
   served as Vice-President under   
Woodrow Wilson

Walter F. Mondale
   served as Vice-President under   
Jimmy Carter

William King
   served as Vice-President under   
Franklin Pierce
The only Vice President to be sworn in outside the U.S. (in Havana, Cuba)


William Wheeler
   served as Vice-President under   
Rutherford B. Hayes



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