| William Rufus Devane King - 13th Vice President |
| Administration: |
Franklin Pierce |
| Term: |
March 4, 1853 to April 18, 1853 |
| Born: |
April 7, 1786, Sampson County, North Carolina |
| Wife: |
Never Married |
| Died: |
April 18, 1853, Cahaba, Alabama |
| Burial Site: |
City Cemetery, Selma, Alabama |
| Home State: |
Alabama |
| Party: |
Democrat |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1803)
-Admitted to the North Carolina bar (1806)
-North Carolina House of Commons (1807-9)
-US House of Representatives from North Carolina (1811-16)
-Secretary of US legations in Naples, Italy and St Petersburg, Russia (1816-18)
-US Senate from Alabama (1819-44)
-President Pro Tempore of the Senate (1836-41)
-Minister to France (1844-46)
-US Senate from Alabama (1848-52)
-Vice President of the United States (1853)
-The only Vice President to be inaugurated outside the United States, in Havana,
Cuba, where he had gone for health reasons (1853)
-Died in office, having never performed any official duties as Vice President
(1853) |
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| John Cabell Breckinridge - 14th Vice President |
| Administration: |
James Buchanan |
| Term: |
March 4, 1857 to March 4, 1861 |
| Born: |
January 16, 1821, Lexington, Kentucky |
| Wife: |
Mary Cyrene Burch |
| Marriage: |
December 12, 1843, Georgetown, Kentucky |
| Died: |
May 17, 1875, Lexington, Kentucky |
| Burial Site: |
Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Kentucky |
| Home State: |
Kentucky |
| Party: |
Democrat |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from Centre College (1839)
-Admitted to the Kentucky bar (1840)
-Major of Kentucky volunteers during the Mexican War (1847-48)
-Kentucky House of Representatives (1849)
-US House of Representatives from Kentucky (1851-55)
-Vice President of the United States (1857-61)
-The youngest Vice President, he was 36 at his inauguration (1857)
-Finished second to Lincoln as Presidential candidate of the Southern Democratic
Party (1860)
-US Senate from Kentucky (1861)
-Expelled from the Senate as a traitor for supporting the Kentucky sessionist
movement (1861)
-He served as a General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War (1861-1865)
-Secretary of War for the Confederate States (1865)
-He escaped to Cuba at the end of the Civil War and lived in Europe and Canada,
threatened with charges of treason, until President Johnson declared a General
Amnesty (1868)
-Upon his return to the US, he practiced law and served as a railroad executive
-His son, Clifton Breckinridge, served several terms as a US Representative
from Arkansas in the 1880's and 1890's |
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| Hannibal Hamlin - 15th Vice President |
| Administration: |
Abraham Lincoln |
| Term: |
March 4, 1861 to March 4, 1865 |
| Born: |
August 27, 1809, Paris, Maine |
| Wife: |
Sarah Jane Emery |
| Marriage: |
December 10, 1833, Hampden, Maine |
| Second Wife: |
Ellen Vesta Emery |
| Second Marriage: |
September 25, 1856, Paris, Maine |
| Died: |
July 4, 1891, Bangor, Maine |
| Burial Site: |
Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine |
| Home State: |
Maine |
| Party: |
Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Admitted to the Maine bar (1833)
-Maine House of Representatives, as Democrat (1836-40)
-Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives (1837, 1839, 1840)
-Unsuccessful candidate for US House of Representatives (1840)
-US House of Representatives from Maine (1843-47)
-Failed anti-slavery (Democrat) candidate for US Senate from Maine (1846)
-Maine House of Representatives (1848)
-US Senate from Maine, still as a Democrat (1848-57)
-Joined the newly formed Republican Party (1856)
-Governor of Maine (1857)
-Resigned as Governor to re-join the US Senate, this time as a Republican (1857-61)
-Vice President of the United States (1861-65)
-Served a 60-day enlistment in the Maine State Guard, at the rank of Private,
while serving as Vice President (1864)
-He was briefly the Collector of the Port of Boston after the war (1865-66)
-US Senate from Maine (1869-81)
-Minister to Spain (1881-82)
-Retired from public life to his farm (1882)
-He was the third Vice President to die on the Fourth of July (1891) |
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| Andrew Johnson - 16th Vice President |
| Administration: |
Abraham Lincoln |
| Term: |
March 4, 1865 to April 15, 1865 |
| Born: |
December 29, 1808, Raleigh, North Carolina |
| Wife: |
Eliza McCardle |
| Marriage: |
May 5, 1827, Greeneville, Tennessee |
| Died: |
July 31, 1875, Carter’s Station, Tennessee |
| Burial Site: |
Andrew Johnson National Cemetery, Greeneville, Tennesssee |
| Home State: |
Tennessee |
| Party: |
Democrat |
| Career Highlights: |
-Apprenticed to a tailor (1822)
-Opened tailor shop (1824)
-Alderman of Greeneville, TN (1828-29)
-Mayor of Greeneville (1830-33)
-Tennessee House of Representatives (1835-37 and 1839-41)
-US House of Representatives from Tennessee (1843-53)
-Governor of Tennessee (1853-1857)
-US Senator from Tennessee (1857-62)
-Union Military Governor of the Confederate State of Tennessee during the Civil
War (1862-65)
-Nominated for Vice President on Lincoln’s National Union Party ticket
(1864)
-Vice President of the United States (1865)
-President of the United States (1865-69)
-The third Vice President to become President as a result of the death of a
President (1865)
-A Southerner, he disagreed strongly with the Radical Republicans in Congress
over Reconstruction policies (1865-1869)
-Approved the purchase of Alaska--known as "Seward's Folly"-(1867)
-He violated the Tenure of Office Act, which Congress passed over his veto,
by firing Secretary of War Edwin M Stanton (1868)
-The first President to be impeached (1868)
-He survived removal from the Presidency by a single vote in the Senate (1868)
-Disowned by the Republicans, he unsuccessfully sought the Democrat nomination
for the Presidency (1868)
-Unsuccessful candidate for US Senate from Tennessee (1869)
-Unsuccessful candidate for US House of Representatives from Tennessee (1872)
-US Senate from Tennessee (1874-75)
-Died while serving as Senator (1875) |
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| Schuyler Colfax - 17th Vice President |
| Administration: |
Ulysses S Grant |
| Term: |
March 4, 1869 to March 4, 1873 |
| Born: |
March 23, 1823, New York City, New York |
| Wife: |
Evelyn Clark |
| Marriage: |
October 10, 1844, Argyle, New York |
| Second Wife: |
Ellen Maria Wade |
| Second Marriage: |
November 18, 1868, Andover, Ohio |
| Died: |
May 17, 1875, Mankato, Minnesota |
| Burial Site: |
City Cemetery, South Bend, Indiana |
| Home State: |
Indiana |
| Party: |
Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Newspaper owner and editor, beginning in 1845
-A Free Soil Party founder (1848)
-Unsuccessful Whig candidate for US House of Representatives from Indiana (1850)
-US House of Representatives from Indiana (1855-69)
-Speaker of the House of Representatives (1863-69)
-Vice President of the United States (1869-73)
-Presided over both the House of Representatives, as Speaker, and the Senate,
as Vice President (1869)
-Failed in his effort to be renominated with Grant and left the Vice Presidency
under a cloud, due to the Credit Mobilier corruption scandal (1872-73)
-Became a public speaker after his political career ended |
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| Henry Wilson - 18th Vice President |
| Administration: |
Ulysses S. Grant |
| Term: |
March 4, 1873 to November 22, 1875 |
| Born: |
February 16, 1812, Farmington, New Hampshire |
| Wife: |
Harriet Malvina Howe |
| Marriage: |
October 28, 1840, Natick, Massachusetts |
| Died: |
November 22, 1875, Washington, DC |
| Burial Site: |
Dell Cemetery, Natick, Massachusetts |
| Home State: |
Massachusetts |
| Party: |
Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-He was born Jeremiah Jones Colbraith, legally changing his name (1833)
-Indentured into farm labor as a boy (1822)
-Learned the shoemaker's trade in the early 1830's and eventually owned his
own small factory
-One of the leaders of the Anti-Slavery movement
-Massachusetts House of Representatives, as a Whig (1841-42)
-Massachusetts Senate, as a Whig (1844-46)
-A founder of the Free Soil Party (1848)
-Newspaper owner and editor (1848-51)
-Massachusetts Senate, as a Free Soiler (1850-52)
-Unsuccessful Free Soil candidate for US House of Representatives (1852)
-US Senate from Massachusetts, as a member of the American ("Know-Nothing")
and Republican Parties (1855-73)
-Chairman of the US Senate Committee on Military Affairs during the Civil War
(1861-65)
-Vice President of the United States (1873-75)
-Died in office (1875) |
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| William Almon Wheeler - 19th Vice President |
| Administration: |
Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Term: |
March 4, 1877 to March 4, 1881 |
| Born: |
June 30, 1819, Malone, New York |
| Wife: |
Mary King |
| Marriage: |
September 17, 1845, Malone, New York |
| Died: |
June 4, 1887, Malone, New York |
| Burial Site: |
Morningside Cemetery, Malone, New York |
| Home State: |
New York |
| Party: |
Republican
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| Career Highlights: |
-Admitted to the New York State bar (1845)
-New York State Assembly (1850-51)
-New York State Senate (1858-59)
-President Pro Tempore of the New York State Senate (1858-59)
-US House of Representatives from New York (1861-63 and 1869-77)
-Vice President of the United States (1877-81)
-Resumed law practice (1881) |
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Chester Alan Arthur - 20th Vice President
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| Administration: |
James A. Garfield |
| Term: |
March 4, 1881 to September 19, 1881 |
| Born: |
October 5, 1830, Fairfield, Vermont |
| Wife: |
Ellen Lewis Herndon |
| Marriage: |
October 25, 1859, New York City, New York |
| Died: |
November 18, 1886, New York City, New York |
| Burial Site: |
Rural Cemetery, Albany, New York |
| Home State: |
New York |
| Party: |
Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from Union College (1848)
-Teacher (1848-53)
-Admitted to the New York State bar (1854)
-Engineer-in-Chief and Quartermaster General of New York State militia troops
durning the Civil War (1861-62)
-Closely associated with Roscoe Conkling, leader of a New York political machine
-Collector of the Port of New York (1871-78)
-His removal from the position of Collector of the Port of New York caused strife
within the Republican Party (1878)
-Vice President of the United States (1881)
-President of the United States (1881-85)
-The fourth Vice President to become President as a result of the death of a
President (1881)
-Although he was a noteworthy political spoilsman--a "Stalwart"--he
approved the first modern Civil Service reform legislation, the Pendleton Civil
Service Act (1883)
-Defeated by James G. Blaine in his efforts to be renominated by the Republicans
(1884)
-Resumed law practice (1885) |
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| Thomas Andrews Hendricks - 21st Vice President |
| Administration: |
Grover Cleveland |
| Term: |
March 4 1885 to November 25, 1885 |
| Born: |
September 7, 1819, Muskingham County, Ohio |
| Wife: |
Eliza Morgan |
| Marriage: |
September 26, 1845, North Bend, Ohio |
| Died: |
November 25, 1885, Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Burial Site: |
Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Home State: |
Indiana |
| Party: |
Democrat |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from Hanover College (1841)
-Admitted to Indiana bar (1843)
-Indiana House of Representatives (1848)
-Indiana Senate (1849)
-US House of Representatives from Indiana (1851-55)
-Unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Indiana (1860)
-US Senate from Indiana (1863-69)
-Received 42 Electoral Votes after the death of Democrat nominee Horace Greeley
(1872)
-Governor of Indiana (1873-77)
-He was the Democrat’s unsuccessful Vice Presidential nominee on the ticket
with Samuel J. Tilden (1876)
-Vice President of the United States (1885)
-Died in office (1885) |
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| Levi Parsons Morton - 22nd Vice President |
| Administration: |
Benjamin Harrison |
| Term: |
March 4, 1889 to March 4, 1893 |
| Born: |
May 16, 1824, Shoreham, Vermont |
| Wife: |
Lucy Young Kimball |
| Marriage: |
October 15, 1856, Flatlands, New York |
| Second Marriage: |
Anna Livingston Reed Street, February 12, 1873, Newport, Rhode
Island |
| Died: |
May 16, 1920, Rhinebeck, New York |
| Burial Site: |
Rhinebeck Cemetery, Rhinebeck, New York |
| Home State: |
New York |
| Party: |
Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Merchant and shopkeeper until the Civil War (1838-63)
-Founder of the New York City banking house of LP Morton and Company (1863-99)
-He was a wealthy Wall Street financier during the Gilded Age
-Unsuccessful candidate for US House of Representatives from New York (1876)
-Refused the Republican nomination as Vice President (1880)
-Chester Alan Arthur, who accepted, became President upon the death of James
Garfield (1881)
-US House of Representatives from New York (1879-81)
-Minister to France (1881-85)
-As Minister to France, he drove the first rivet into the Statue of Liberty
(1883)
-Vice President of the United States (1889-93)
-Whitelaw Reid replaced him on the failed Republican ticket (1892)
-Governor of New York (1895-97)
-Returned to banking after his political career ended |
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| Adlai Ewing Stevenson - 23rd Vice President |
| Administration: |
Grover Cleveland |
| Term: |
March 4, 1893 to March 4, 1897 |
| Born: |
October 23, 1835, Christian County, Kentucky |
| Wife: |
Letitia Green |
| Marriage: |
December 20, 1866, Matamera, Illinois |
| Died: |
June 14, 1914, Chicago, Illinois |
| Burial Site: |
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, Illinois |
| Home State: |
Illinois |
| Party: |
Democrat |
| Career Highlights: |
-Admitted to the Illinois bar (1858)
-The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 inspired him to enter politics--on the
side of Douglas
-US House of Representatives from Illinois (1875-77 and 1879-81)
-Lost re-elections to the House of Representatives (1876 and 1880)
-First Assistant Postmaster General during Grover Cleveland's first term as
President (1885-89)
-Vice President of the United States (1893-97)
-Ran for the Vice Presidency on the losing Democrat ticket with William Jennings
Bryan (1897)
-Unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Illinois (1908)
-Grandfather of Adlai E Stevenson II, who was the Democrat nominee for President
in 1952 and 1956 |
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