| Vice Presidents of the United States |
| John Adams - 1st Vice President |
| Administration: |
George Washington |
| Term: |
April 21, 1789 to March 4, 1797 |
| Born: |
October 30, 1735, Braintree, Massachusetts |
| Wife: |
Abigail Smith |
| Marriage: |
October 25, 1764, Weymouth, Massachusetts |
| Died: |
July 4, 1826, Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Burial Site: |
First Parish Unity Church, Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Home State: |
Massachusetts |
| Party: |
Federalist |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from Harvard College (1755)
-Admitted to the Massachusetts bar (1758)
-Elected to the Massachusetts legislature (1768)
-Delegate to the Continental Congress (1774-78)
-Although he was known as a champion of the cause of American independence,
he defended the British soldiers accused of the Boston Massacre (1775)
-Signer and one of the drafters of The Declaration of Independence (1776)
-Commissioner to France (1778)
-Minister to the Netherlands (1780)
-Minister to England (1785-88)
-Vice President of the United States (1789-97)
-He was not Washington's "Running Mate," although they were political
allies
-As first presiding officer of the Senate, he signed the Bill of Rights (1789)
-President of the United States (1797-1801)
-The first of five Vice Presidents to be elected to the Presidency on his own
(1800)
-One of three Vice Presidents to die on the Fourth of July (1826)
-His son was a President, his grandson an Ambassador and Presidential candidate,
and two of his great-grandsons became noteworthy historians |
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| Thomas Jefferson - 2nd Vice President |
| Administration: |
John Adams |
| Term: |
March 4, 1797 to March 4, 1801 |
| Born: |
April 13, 1743, Shadwell, Virginia |
| Wife: |
Martha Wayles Skelton |
| Marriage: |
January 1, 1772, Williamsburg, Virginia |
| Died: |
July 4, 1826, “Monticello” in Virginia |
| Burial Site: |
“Monticello” in Virginia |
| Home State: |
Virginia |
| Party: |
Democratic-Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from the College of William And Mary (1762)
-Admitted to the Virginia bar (1767)
-Virginia House of Burgesses (1769-74)
-Signer and one of the drafters of The Declaration of Independence (1776)
-Governor of Virginia (1779-81)
-Governor Jefferson was almost captured by British troops in 1781
-Member of the Continental Congress (1783-1784)
-Minister to France (1785-89)
-Secretary of State (1790-93)
-Received Electoral Votes for President in 1792
-Vice President of the United States (1797-1801)
-President of the United States (1801-09)
-The House of Representatives decided his election, as President, because he
and his running mate, Aaron Burr, received the same number of Electoral Votes
(1801)
-The second of five Vice Presidents to be elected to the Presidency on his own
-Louisiana Purchase approved (1803)
-Founded of the University of Virginia (1816) and served as first rector until
1822
-Retired to his plantation, Monticello
-One of three Vice Presidents to die on the Fourth of July (1826) |
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| Aaron Burr - 3rd Vice President |
| Administration: |
Thomas Jefferson |
| Term: |
March 4, 1801 to March 4, 1805 |
| Born: |
February 6, 1756, Newark, New Jersey |
| Wife: |
Theodosia Bartow Prevost |
| Marriage: |
July 2, 1782, Paramus, New Jersey |
| Second Wife: |
Eliza Bowen Jumel |
| Second Marriage: |
July 1, 1833, Washington Heights, New York |
| Died: |
September 14, 1836, Staten Island, New York |
| Burial Site: |
Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, New Jersey |
| Home State: |
New York |
| Party: |
Democratic-Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Grandson of Jonathan Edwards, noted Colonial clergyman
-His father, Aaron Burr, Sr, was a founder of Princeton University
-Graduated from Princeton, then called the College of New Jersey (1772)
-Col. in Continental Army, including service with George Washington at Valley
Forge (1775-79)
-Admitted to New York State bar (1782)
-Served several terms in the New York State Assembly (1780s-1790s)
-Attorney General of New York (1789-90)
-Senator from New York (1791-97)
-Received Electoral Votes for President (1792 & 1796)
-Vice President of the United States (1801-05)
-The Twelfth Amendment was passed (1804) as a result of the contest between
Burr and Jefferson for the Presidency
-Unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New York (1804)
-Killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel while serving as Vice President (1804)
-Presided over the Senate's impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel
Chase (1805)
-Tried for and acquitted of treason, over events in the Mississippi Territory
(1807)
-His political career over, he became a successful lawyer |
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| George Clinton - 4th Vice President |
| Administration: |
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison |
| Term: |
March 4, 1805 to April 20, 1812 |
| Born: |
July 26, 1739, Little Britain, New York |
| Wife: |
Cornelia Tappen |
| Marriage: |
February 7, 1770, Ulster County, New York |
| Died: |
April 20, 1812, Washington, DC |
| Burial Site: |
Old Dutch Churchyard, Kingston, New York |
| Home State: |
New York |
| Party: |
Democratic-Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Admitted to the New York State bar (1755)
-Fought in the French and Indian War (1758)
-Elected to the New York State Assembly (1768)
-Delegate to the Continental Congress (1775-76)
-Served as Brigadier-General during the Revolutionary War (1775-77)
-He was the first Governor of New York, and the longest serving Governor, with
21 years in office (1777-95 and 1801-04)
-He opposed the ratification of the Constitution, and later served as Vice President
to James Madison, the main author of the Constitution
-Received Electoral Votes for President (1789, 1792 and 1796)
-Vice President of the United States (1805-09)
-The first Vice President to be elected as a "Running Mate" under
the terms of the Twelfth Amendment (1804)
-The first of two Vice Presidents to serve under two Presidents
-Unsuccessfully sought his party's Presidential nomination and agreed to serve
again as Vice President (1808)
-Died in office (1812) |
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| Elbridge Gerry - 5th Vice President |
| Administration: |
James Madison |
| Term: |
March 4, 1813 to November 23, 1814 |
| Born: |
July 17, 1744, Marblehead, Massachusetts |
| Wife: |
Ann Thompson |
| Marriage: |
January 12, 1786, New York City, New York |
| Died: |
November 23, 1814, Washington, DC |
| Burial Site: |
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC |
| Home State: |
Massachusetts |
| Party: |
Democratic-Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from Harvard College (1762)
-Member, General Court of Massachusetts (1772)
-Member of the Massachusetts Legislature (1773)
-Member of the Continental Congress (1776-81)
-Signer of The Declaration of Independence (1776)
-Signer of The Articles of Confederation (1777)
-Delegate to the Constitutional Convention (1787)
-He opposed the ratification of the Constitution, and later served as Vice President
to James Madison, the main author of the Constitution (1787-1788)
-Elected to the First and Second Congresses (1789-1793)
-As Envoy to France, was part of the XYZ Affair, an international diplomatic
incident (1797)
-Unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Massachusetts (1801)
-Elected Governor of Massachusetts (1810 & 1811)
-His efforts to influence election results by manipulating the size and shape
of legislative districts, a process now known as "gerrymandering",
cost him re-election to the governorship (1811)
-Vice President of the United States (1813-14)
-The second of James Madison's Vice Presidents to die in office (1814) |
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| Daniel D. Tompkins - 6th Vice President |
| Administration: |
James Monroe |
| Term: |
March 4, 1817 to March 4, 1825 |
| Born: |
June 21, 1774, Scarsdale, New York |
| Wife: |
Hannah Minthorne |
| Marriage: |
February 20, 1798, New York City, New York |
| Died: |
June 11, 1825, Staten Island, New York |
| Burial Site: |
St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, New York City, New York |
| Home State: |
New York |
| Party: |
Democratic-Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from Columbia College (1795)
-Admitted to the New York State bar (1797)
-Elected to New York State Assembly (1803)
-Elected to US House of Representatives, but resigned before his term began
to join the New York Supreme Court (1804)
-Governor of New York (1807-17)
-A major force behind outlawing slavery in New York
-Raised money to defend against the British in the War of 1812, going into personal
debt
-Vice President of the United States (1817-25)
-The Monroe Administration coincides with what is called the Era of Good Feelings
-Died shortly after leaving office (1825) |
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| John Caldwell Calhoun - 7th Vice President |
| Administration: |
John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson |
| Term: |
March 4, 1825 to December 28, 1832 |
| Born: |
March 18, 1782, Abbeville District, South Carolina |
| Wife: |
Floride Bonneau Calhoun |
| Marriage: |
January 8, 1811, Bonneau’s Ferry, South Carolina |
| Died: |
March 31, 1850 |
| Burial Site: |
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Cemetery, Pendleton, South Carolina |
| Home State: |
South Carolina |
| Party: |
Democratic-Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from Yale College (1804)
-Admitted to the South Carolina bar (1807)
-South Carolina House of Representatives (1808-09)
-US Representative from South Carolina (1811-17)
-Secretary of War (1817-25)
-Vice President of the United States (1825-32)
-Supported the doctrine of nullification, the theory that states can reject
federal laws
-The first of two Vice Presidents to resign in office (1832)
-US Senator from South Carolina (1832-43)
-Secretary of State (1844-45)
-US Senator from South Carolina (1832-43)
-One of "The Great Triumvirates" of Senators, with Henry Clay and
Daniel Webster
-Died while serving as a U S Senator (1850) |
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| Martin Van Buren - 8th Vice President |
| Administration: |
Andrew Jackson |
| Term: |
March 4, 1833 to March 4, 1837 |
| Born: |
December 5, 1782, Kinderhook, New York |
| Wife: |
Hannah Hoes |
| Marriage: |
February 21, 1807, Catskill, New York |
| Died: |
July 24, 1814, Kinderhook, New York |
| Burial Site: |
Kinderhook Cemetery, Kinderhook, New York |
| Home State: |
New York |
| Party: |
Democrat |
| Career Highlights: |
-Admitted to the New York State bar (1803)
-New York State Senate (1813-20)
-New York State Attorney General (1815-19)
-US Senate from New York (1821-28)
-Governor of New York (1829); resigned to become Secretary of State
-Secretary of State (1829-31)
-Appointed Minister to Great Britain (1831), he arrived in London to find his
nomination rejected by the Senate
-Vice President of the United States (1833-37)
-President of the United States (1837-41)
-The third of five Vice Presidents to be elected to the Presidency on his own
(1836)
-Ruined politically by the Panic of 1837
-Defeated in his bid for re-election to the Presidency by William Henry Harrison
(1840)
-Ran unsuccessfully for his party's Presidential nomination (1844)
-Ran unsuccessfully for President again on the Free Soil Party ticket (1848)
-Retired to his home in Kinderhook, NY (1848)
-His nickname, "Old Kinderhook, " is said to be the source of the
expression "OK" |
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| Richard Mentor Johnson - 9th Vice President |
| Administration: |
Martin Van Buren |
| Term: |
March 4, 1837 to March 4, 1841 |
| Born: |
October 17, 1780, Bryant’s Station, Kentucky |
| Wife: |
Julia Chinn |
| Marriage: |
common-law |
| Died: |
November 18, 1850, Frankfort, Kentucky |
| Burial Site: |
Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky |
| Home State: |
Kentucky |
| Party: |
Democrat |
| Career Highlights: |
-Admitted to the Kentucky bar (1802)
-Kentucky House of Representatives (1807-13)
-US House of Representatives from Kentucky (1807-19)
-Colonel of Kentucky volunteers during the War of 1812 (1813)
-Claimed to have killed Tecumseh, commander of the Indian confederacy forces,
in the Battle of the Thames (1813)
-Kentucky House of Representatives (1819)
-US Senate from Kentucky (1819-29)
-Kentucky House of Representatives (1829-37)
-Vice President of the United States (1837-41)
-Because no candidate received a majority of the Electoral Vote, the Senate,
as required by the Twelfth Amendment, elected Johnson Vice President (1836)
-Defeated in re-election bid with Van Buren (1840)
-Kentucky House of Representatives (1841-42)
-Retired from public life (1842) |
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| John Tyler (1841) - 10th Vice President |
| Administration: |
William Henry Harrison |
| Term: |
March 4, 1841 to April 4, 1841 |
| Born: |
March 29, 1790, Charles City County, Virginia |
| Wife: |
Letitia Christian |
| Marriage: |
March 29, 1813, New Kent County, Virginia |
| Second Wife: |
Julia Gardiner |
| Second Marriage: |
June 26, 1844, New York City, New York |
| Died: |
January 18, 1862, Richmond, Virginia |
| Burial Site: |
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia |
| Home State: |
Virginia |
| Party: |
Whig |
| Career Highlights: |
-His father, also named John Tyler, was Governor of Virginia (1808-11)
-Graduated from the College of William and Mary (1807)
-Admitted to the Virginia bar (1809)
-Virginia House of Delegates (1811-16)
-Captain of a Virginia militia company during the War of 1812 (1813)
-US House of Representatives from Virginia (1817-21)
-Virginia House of Delegates (1823-25)
-Governor of Virginia (1825-27)
-US Senate from Virginia (1827-36)
-President Pro Tempore of the Senate (1835-36)
-One of several unsuccessful Whig candidates for Vice President (1836)
-Virginia House of Delegates (1838-40)
-Vice President of the United States (1841)
-President of the United States (1841-45)
-The first Vice President to become President as a result of the death of a
President (1841)
-Disowned by the Whig Party over policy conflicts while serving as President
(1841-1845)
-Distrusted by both Whigs and Democrats, he retired to his plantation (1845)
-Chancellor of the College of William and Mary (1859)
-President of Peace Conference in Washington, DC, which failed to prevent the
coming Civil War (1861)
-Twenty years after swearing to uphold the U.S. Constitution as President, he
served in as a delegate to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States
of America, but died before taking office (1862)
-Elected to the House of Representatives of the Confederate States of America,
he died before taking office (1862)
-His son, David Tyler, was a US Representative from Virginia (1893-97) |
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| George Mifflin Dallas - 11th Vice President |
| Administration: |
James K. Polk |
| Term: |
March 4, 1845 to March 4, 1849 |
| Born: |
July 10, 1792, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Wife: |
Sophia Chew Nicklin |
| Marriage: |
May 23, 1816, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Died: |
December 31, 1864, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Burial Site: |
St. Peter’s Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Home State: |
Pennsylvania |
| Party: |
Democrat |
| Career Highlights: |
-His father, Alexander J. Dallas, was Secretary of the Treasury (1814-16)
-Graduated from Princeton (1810)
-Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar (1813)
-Private Secretary to Albert Gallatin, who was serving as Minister to Russia
(1813)
-Mayor of Philadelphia (1828-29)
-US Senator from Pennsylvania (1831-33)
-Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1833-35)
-Minister to Russia (1837-39)
-Vice President of the United States (1845-49)
-As Vice President, he presided over the Senate during the debates over the
annexation of Texas and the Mexican-American War (1845-1849)
-Minister to Great Britain (1856-61)
-Retired from public life (1861) |
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| Millard Fillmore - 12th Vice President |
| Administration: |
Zachary Taylor |
| Term: |
March 4, 1849 to July 9, 1850 |
| Born: |
January 7, 1800, Summerhill, New York |
| Wife: |
Abigail Powers |
| Marriage: |
February 5, 1826, Moravia, New York |
| Second Wife: |
Caroline Carmichael McIntosh |
| Second Marriage: |
February 10, 1858, Albany, New York |
| Died: |
March 8, 1874, Buffalo, New York |
| Burial Site: |
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New York |
| Home State: |
New York |
| Party: |
Whig |
| Career Highlights: |
-Apprenticed to a wool carder (1815)
-School teacher (1818)
-Admitted to the New York State bar (1823)
-New York State Assembly, as a member of the Anti-Masonic Party (1829-31)
-US House of Representatives from New York, as a Whig (1833-35, 1837-43)
-Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee (1840-42)
-Unsuccessful Whig candidate for Governor (1844)
-Commanded a corps of the Home Guard during the Mexican War (1846)
-Appointed to the honorary position of Chancellor of the University of Buffalo
(1846)
-New York State Controller (1848-49)
-Vice President of the United States (1849-50)
-President of the United States (1850-53)
-The second Vice President to become President as a result of the death of a
President (1850)
-Failed to be renominated by the Whigs (1852)
-Nominated for the Presidency by the Whig and American ("Know-Nothing")
Parties (1856)
-President of the Buffalo Historical Society (1862-67)
-Continued to serve in the honorary roll of Chancellor of the University of
Buffalo, and took interest in other aspects of Buffalo's civic life |
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