| Garret Augustus Hobart - 24th Vice President |
| Administration: |
William McKinley |
| Term: |
March 4, 1897 to November 21, 1899 |
| Born: |
June 3, 1844, Long Branch, New Jersey |
| Wife: |
Esther Jane Tuttle |
| Marriage: |
July 21, 1869, Paterson, New Jersey |
| Died: |
November 21, 1899, Paterson, New Jersey |
| Burial Site: |
Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, New Jersey |
| Home State: |
New Jersey |
| Party: |
Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from Rutgers University (1863)
-Admitted to the New Jersey bar (1869)
-He was a successful businessman and attorney before entering politics
-City Council of Patterson, NJ (1871-72)
-New Jersey Assembly (1872-76)
-Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly (1874)
-New Jersey Senate (1876-82)
-President of the New Jersey Senate (1881-82)
-Chairman of the New Jersey Republican committee (1880-91)
-Member of the Republican National Committee (1884)
-Vice President of the United States (1897-99)
-He cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate against Phillippine independence
(1899)
-Died in office (1899) |
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| Theodore Roosevelt - 25th Vice President |
| Administration: |
William McKinley |
| Term: |
March 4, 1901 to September 14, 1901 |
| Born: |
October 27, 1858, New York City, New York |
| Wife: |
Alice Hathaway Lee |
| Marriage: |
October 27, 1880, Brookline, Massachusetts |
| Second Wife: |
Edith Kermit Carow |
| Second Marriage: |
December 2, 1886, London, England |
| Died: |
January 6, 1919, Oyster Bay, New York |
| Burial Site: |
Young’s Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, New York |
| Home State: |
New York |
| Party: |
Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from Harvard University (1880)
-New York State Assembly (1882-84)
-After both his mother and first wife died (February 14, 1884), he retired to
his North Dakota ranch for two years (1884-1885)
-Unsuccessful candidate for Mayor of New York City (1886)
-Member of the US Civil Service Commission (1889-95)
-President of the New York City Board of Police Commissioners (1895-97)
-Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1897-98)
-Colonel of "Rough Riders" during Spanish-American War (1898)
-Governor of New York (1899-1901)
-Vice President of the United States (1901)
-President of the United States (1901-09)
-The fifth Vice President to become President as a result of the death of a
President (1901)
-At 42 years old, the youngest President to take office (1901)
-Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to resolve the Russo-Japanese
War (1906)
-Declined to run for re-election, instead touring Africa and Europe (1908)
-Failed in his efforts to be renominated for the Presidency by the Republicans
(1912)
-Organized the Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party and received 88 Electoral
Votes in his failed race for the Presidency (1912)
-Survived assassination attempt while giving campaign speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
(1912)
-Traveled and wrote, and eventually rejoined the Republican Party |
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| Charles Warren Fairbanks - 26th Vice President |
| Administration: |
Theodore Roosevelt |
| Term: |
March 4, 1905 to March 4, 1909 |
| Born: |
May 11, 1852, Union County, Ohio |
| Wife: |
Cornelia Cole |
| Marriage: |
October 6, 1874, Union County, Ohio |
| Died: |
June 4, 1918, Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Burial Site: |
Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Home State: |
Indiana |
| Party: |
Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University (1872)
-Admitted to the Ohio bar (1874)
-Unsuccessful candidate for US Senate from Indiana (1892)
-US Senate from Indiana (1897-1905)
-Vice President of the United States (1905-09)
-Ran unsuccessfully for the Vice Presidency on Republican ticket (1916)
-Returned to the practice of law (1917) |
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| James Schoolcraft Sherman - 27th Vice President |
| Administration: |
William Howard Taft |
| Term: |
March 4, 1909 to October 30, 1912 |
| Born: |
October 8, 1855, Utica, New York |
| Wife: |
Carrie Babcock |
| Marriage: |
January 26, 1881, Utica, New York |
| Died: |
October 30, 1912, Utica, New York |
| Burial Site: |
Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica, New York
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| Home State: |
New York |
| Party: |
Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from Hamilton College (1878)
-Admitted to the New York State bar (1880)
-Mayor of Utica, NY (1884)
-US House of Representatives from New York (1887-91 and 1893-1909)
-Vice President of the United States (1909-12)
-Ran for reelection with Taft on the losing Republican ticket (1912)
-He died in office just days before the Presidential election and his Electoral
Votes were given to Nicholas Murray Butler (1912) |
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| Thomas Riley Marshall - 28th Vice President |
| Administration: |
Woodrow Wilson |
| Term: |
March 4, 1913 to March 4, 1921 |
| Born: |
March 14, 1854, North Manchester, Indiana |
| Wife: |
Lois Irene Kimsey |
| Marriage: |
October 2, 1895, Angola, Indiana |
| Died: |
June 1, 1925, Washington, DC |
| Burial Site: |
Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Home State: |
Indiana |
| Party: |
Democrat |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from Wabash College (1873)
-Admitted to the Ohio bar (1875)
-Governor of Indiana (1909-13)
-Vice President of the United States (1913-21)
-He might have become President, after Wilson suffered a stroke; instead, he
allowed Mrs. Wilson to unofficially act as President in her husband's place
(1919)
-Served on the Federal Coal Commission (1922-23)
-Wrote and practiced law after leaving politics |
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| John Calvin Coolidge - 29th Vice President |
| Administration: |
Warren G. Harding |
| Term: |
March 4, 1921 to August 3, 1923 |
| Born: |
July 4, 1872, Plymouth, Vermont |
| Wife: |
Grace Anna Goodhue |
| Marriage: |
October 4, 1905, Burlington, Vermont |
| Died: |
January 5, 1933, Northampton, Massachusetts |
| Burial Site: |
Plymouth Notch Cemetery, Plymouth, Vermont |
| Home State: |
Massachusetts |
| Party: |
Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from Amherst College (1895)
-Admitted to the Massachusetts bar (1897)
-City Counsel of Northampton, MA (1899)
-Massachusetts House of Representatives (1907-09)
-Mayor of Northampton (1910-11)
-Massachusetts Senate (1912-15)
-President of the Massachusetts Senate (1914-15)
-Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1916-18)
-Governor of Massachusetts (1919-20)
-Vice President of the United States (1921-23)
-President of the United States (1923-29)
-The sixth Vice President to become President as a result of the death of a
President (1923)
-Declined to run for re-election (1928)
-Wrote his autobiography and a newspaper column after leaving politics |
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| Charles Gates Dawes - 30th Vice President |
| Administration: |
Calvin Coolidge |
| Term: |
March 4, 1925 to March 4, 1929 |
| Born: |
August 27, 1865, Marietta, Ohio |
| Wife: |
Caro Dana Blymyer |
| Marriage: |
January 24, 1889, Waterford, Ohio |
| Died: |
April 23, 1951, Evanston, Illinois |
| Burial Site: |
Rose Hill Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois |
| Home State: |
Illinois |
| Party: |
Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from Marietta College (1884)
-Admitted to the Nebraska bar (1886)
-Wrote on financial and public policy issues during (1890's)
-Comptroller of the Currency (1898-1901)
-Unsuccessful candidate for US Senate from Illinois (1902)
-Worked in the Chicago banking industry for two decades
-Served on the supply procurement staff of the US Army during World War I, rising
to the rank of Brigadier General (1917-1918)
-Unsuccessful candidate for Republican Presidential nomination (1920)
-Director of the US Bureau of the Budget (1921)
-Served as chairman of an international commission on Germany's post-war reparation
payments, which developed the Dawes Plan (1923)
-Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to resolve the German reparations
crisis (1925)
-Vice President of the United States (1925-29)
-Ambassador to Great Britain (1929-1932)
-President of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932)
-After leaving politics, he wrote and returned to the banking industry
-As a hobby he composed music, including the tune that would eventually become
the popular song "It's All In the Game" |
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Charles Curtis - 31st Vice President
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| Administration: |
Herbert Hoover |
| Term: |
March 4, 1929 to March 4, 1933 |
| Born: |
January 25, 1860, Topeka, Kansas |
| Wife: |
Anna Elizabeth Baird |
| Marriage: |
November 27, 1884, Topeka, Kansas |
| Died: |
February 8, 1936, Washington, DC |
| Burial Site: |
Topeka Cemetery, Topeka, Kansas |
| Home State: |
Kansas |
| Party: |
Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-His great-grandmother was a Native American from the Kaw tribe
-Admitted to the bar (1881)
-Prosecuting Attorney of Shawnee County (1885-1889)
-US House of Representatives from Kansas (1893-1907)
-US Senator from Kansas (1907-13 and 1915-29)
-President Pro Tempore of the US Senate (1912)
-Majority Leader of the US Senate (1924)
-Vice President of the United States (1929-33)
-Ran for reelection with Hoover on the losing Republican ticket (1932)
-Returned to law practice after his political career |
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| John Nance Garner - 32nd Vice President |
| Administration: |
FDR |
| Term: |
March 4, 1933 to January 20, 1941 |
| Born: |
November 22, 1868, Detroit, Texas |
| Wife: |
Marietta Elizabeth Rheiner |
| Marriage: |
November 25, 1895, Sabinal, Texas |
| Died: |
November 7, 1967, Uvalde, Texas |
| Burial Site: |
Uvalde Cemetery, Uvalde, Texas |
| Home State: |
Texas |
| Party: |
Democrat |
| Career Highlights: |
-Admitted to Texas bar (1890)
-Judge, Uvalda County, TX (1893-96)
-Texas House of Representatives (1898-1902)
-US House of Representatives from Texas (1903-33)
-Speaker of the House of Representatives (1931-33)
-Although his support enabled Roosevelt to win the nomination in 1932, he became
critical of Roosevelt's policies, and eventually contested him for the nomination
in 1940, while still serving as his Vice President
-Retired to his ranch (1941) |
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| Henry Agard Wallace - 33rd Vice President |
| Administration: |
FDR |
| Term: |
January 20, 1941 to January 20, 1945 |
| Born: |
October 8, 1888, Orient, Iowa |
| Wife: |
Ilo Brown |
| Marriage: |
May 20, 1914, Des Moines, Iowa |
| Died: |
November 18, 1965, Danbury, Connecticut |
| Burial Site: |
Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa |
| Home State: |
Iowa |
| Party: |
Democrat |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from Iowa State College, Ames (1910)
-Writer and editor, Wallace's Farmer and Iowa Homestead (1910-1933)
-Bred high-yielding strains of corn (1913-33)
-Secretary of Agriculture (1933-40)
-Vice President of the United States (1941-45)
-He was removed from the Democrat ticket by Roosevelt aides who, concerned about
Roosevelt's health, didn't want him to succeed to the Presidency (1944)
-Secretary of Commerce (1945-46)
-Editor of the New Republic (1946–48)
-Organized the Progressive Party and ran a failed campaign for President against
his successor, the victorious Harry S. Truman (1948)
-Returned to farming and writing (1949) |
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| Harry S. Truman - 34th Vice President |
| Administration: |
FDR |
| Term: |
January 20, 1945 to April 12, 1945 |
| Born: |
May 8, 1884, Lamar, Missouri |
| Wife: |
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace |
| Marriage: |
June 28, 1919, Independence, Missouri |
| Died: |
December 26, 1972, Independence, Missouri |
| Burial Site: |
Truman Library, Independence, Missouri |
| Home State: |
Missouri |
| Party: |
Democrat |
| Career Highlights: |
-After graduating from high school in 1901, he worked at a variety of clerking
jobs (1901-05)
-Joined the Missouri National Guard (1905)
-Partner and manager on the family farm (1906-17)
-Joined the Army in 1917 and served as an artillery captain on the western front
in World War I
-Partner in a haberdashery store (1919-21)
-Jackson County Court Judge (1922-24 and 1926-34)
-US Senate from Missouri (1935-45)
-Chairman of the Special Senate Committee to Investigate the National Defense
Program during World War II (1941-44)
-Vice President of the United States (1945)
-President of the United States (1945-53)
-The sixth Vice President to become President as a result of the death of a
President (1945)
-He oversaw the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War (1945-1953)
-He retired to his home in Independence, MO, and wrote his memoirs |
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| Alben William Barkley - 35th Vice President |
| Administration: |
Harry S Truman |
| Term: |
January 20, 1949 to January 20, 1953 |
| Born: |
November 24, 1877, Lowes, Kentucky |
| Wife: |
Dorothy Anne Brower |
| Marriage: |
June 23, 1903, Tiptonville, Tennessee |
| Second Wife: |
Elizabeth Jane Rucker Hadley |
| Second Marriage: |
November 18, 1949, St. Louis, Missouri |
| Died: |
April 30, 1956, Lexington, Virginia |
| Burial Site: |
Mount Kenton Cemetery, Paducah, Kentucky |
| Home State: |
Kentucky |
| Party: |
Democrat |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from Marvin College (1897)
-Admitted to the Kentucky bar (1901)
-Prosecuting Attorney for McCracken County (1905–9)
-Judge for McCracken County (1909–13)
-US House of Representatives from Kentucky (1913-27)
-US Senate from Kentucky (1927-49 and 1955-56)
-Majority Leader of the US Senate (1937-47)
-Minority Leader of the US Senate (1947-48)
-Vice President of the United States (1949-53)
-At 71, the oldest Vice President to be inaugurated (1949)
-Failed in his effort to obtain his party's Presidential nomination (1952)
-Reelected to the Senate (1954)
-Died while serving as US Senator (1956) |
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| Richard Milhous Nixon - 36th Vice President |
| Administration: |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Term: |
January 20, 1953 to January 20, 1961 |
| Born: |
January 9, 1913, Yorba Linda, California |
| Wife: |
Thelma Catherine Ryan |
| Marriage: |
June 20, 1940, Riverside, California |
| Died: |
April 22, 1994, New York City, New York |
| Burial Site: |
Nixon Library, Yorba Linda, California |
| Home State: |
California |
| Party: |
Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from Whittier College (1934)
-Graduated from Duke University Law School (1937)
-Admitted to the California bar (1937)
-Served in the South Pacific as a Navy officer in World War II (1943-45)
-US House of Representatives from California (1947-50)
-US Senate from California (1950-53)
-Vice President of the United States (1953-61)
-Defeated by John F Kennedy in his first run for the Presidency (1960)
-Unsuccessful campaign for Governor of California (1962)
-Succeeded in his second run for the Presidency, against sitting Vice President
Hubert H. Humphrey (1968)
-President of the United States (1969-74)
-Fourth of only five Vice Presidents to be elected President in his own right
(1968)
-Only President to resign from office (1974)
-Pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford, for any crimes he may have committed
in office (1974)
-Wrote a number of books on politics, foreign policy and leadership while out
of office |
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