Lyndon Baines Johnson - 37th Vice President
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| Administration: |
John F. Kennedy |
| Term: |
January 20, 1961 to November 22, 1963 |
| Born: |
August 27, 1908, Stonewall, Texas |
| Wife: |
Claudia Alta Taylor |
| Marriage: |
November 17, 1934, San Antonio, Texas |
| Died: |
January 22, 1973, San Antonio, Texas
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| Burial Site: |
LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas |
| Home State: |
Texas |
| Party: |
Democrat |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from Southwest Texas State Teachers College (1930)
-High school teacher (1930-31)
-Legislative assistant to US Representative Richard M. Kleberg, Democrat of
Texas (1932-35)
-State director of National Youth Administration (1935-37)
-US House of Representatives from Texas (1937-48)
-Unsuccessful campaign for US Senate from Texas (1941)
-Served in the Naval Reserve while also a Congressman during World War II
-US Senate from Texas (1949-61)
-Senate Minority Whip (1951-53)
-Senate Minority Leader (1953-55)
-Senate Majority Leader (1955-61)
-Campaigned unsuccessfully for the Democrat nomination for President (1960)
-Vice President of the United States (1961-63)
-President of the United States (1963-69)
-The eighth Vice President to become President as a result of the death of a
President (1963)
-Declined to run for re-election (1968)
-Retired to his ranch (1969) |
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| Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. - 38th Vice President |
| Administration: |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Term: |
January 20, 1965 to January 20, 1969 |
| Born: |
May 27, 1911, Wallace, South Dakota |
| Wife: |
Muriel Fay Buck |
| Marriage: |
September 3, 1936, Huron, South Dakota |
| Died: |
January 13, 1978, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Burial Site: |
Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Home State: |
Minnesota |
| Party: |
Democrat |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from a six-month course at the Denver College of Pharmacy (1933)
-Pharmacist (1933-37)
-Graduated from the University of Minnesota (1939)
-Professor of Political Science, University of Louisiana (1939-40)
-Mayor of Minneapolis, MN (1945-48)
-US Senate from Minnesota (1949-64)
-Senate Majority Whip (1961-64)
-Vice President of the United States (1965-69)
-Defeated by former Vice President Richard M. Nixon for President (1968)
-US Senator from Minnesota (1971-78)
-Died while serving as Senator (1978) |
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| Spiro Theodore Agnew - 39th Vice President |
| Administration: |
Richard M. Nixon |
| Term: |
January 20, 1969 to October 10, 1973 |
| Born: |
November 9, 1918, Baltimore, Maryland |
| Wife: |
Elinor Isabel Judefind |
| Marriage: |
May 27, 1942, Baltimore, Maryland |
| Died: |
Sept 17, 1996, Berlin, Maryland |
| Burial Site: |
Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, Timonium, Maryland |
| Home State: |
Maryland |
| Party: |
Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Studied chemistry at Johns Hopkins University (1937)
-Served as a Company Commander with the Tenth Armored Division in World War
II (1942-46)
-Graduated from University of Maryland law school (1947)
-Admitted to the Maryland bar (1947)
-Chairman of the Baltimore County Board of Zoning Appeals (1958-61)
-Unsuccessful candidate for Baltimore County Circuit Judge (1960)
-Baltimore County Executive (1962-66)
-Governor of Maryland (1967-69)
-Vice President of the United States (1969-73)
-The second of two Vice Presidents to resign in office -he did so in the face
of charges of corruption while serving as Governor of Maryland (1973)
-Subsequent to his resignation, he pleaded no contest to charges of income tax
evasion in US District Court, Baltimore, MD, and received three years of probation
(1973)
-Wrote a novel and a memoir and became an international business consultant
after leaving office
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| Gerald Rudolph Ford - 40th Vice President |
| Administration: |
Richard M. Nixon |
| Term: |
December 6, 1973 to August 9, 1974 |
| Born: |
July 14, 1913, Omaha, Nebraska |
| Wife: |
Elizabeth Anne Bloomer Warren |
| Marriage: |
October 15, 1948, Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| Died: |
| Burial Site: |
| Home State: |
Michigan |
| Party: |
Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Originally named Leslie Lynch King, Jr., he was adopted and renamed by his
stepfather (1916)
-Played linebacker and center on the University of Michigan's national championship
football teams (1932 and 1933)
-Graduated from the University of Michigan (1935)
-Graduated from Yale Law School (1941)
-Admitted to the Michigan bar (1941)
-Served in US Navy (1942-46)
-US Representative from Michigan (1949-73)
-Minority Leader, US House of Representatives (1965-73)
-Vice President of the United States (1973-74)
-The first Vice President to be appointed and confirmed, rather than elected,
to office under the terms of the 25th Amendment (1973)
-President of the United States (1974-77)
-The first Vice President to be elevated to the Presidency because of the resignation
of a President (1974)
-Defeated in his bid for election on his own to the Presidency by Jimmy Carter
(1976)
-Retired to private life |
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| Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller - 41st Vice President |
| Administration: |
Gerald R. Ford |
| Term: |
December 19, 1974 to January 20, 1977 |
| Born: |
July 8, 1908, Bar Harbor, Maine |
| Wife: |
Mary Todhunter Clark |
| Marriage: |
June 23, 1930, Bala, Pennsylvania |
| Second Wife: |
Margaretta Large Fitler Murphy |
| Second Marriage: |
May 4, 1963, Pocatico Hills, New York |
| Died: |
January 26, 1979, New York City, New York |
| Burial Site: |
Rockefeller Family Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York |
| Home State: |
New York |
| Party: |
Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Grandson of John D. Rockefeller
-Graduated from Dartmouth College (1930)
-Served in a variety of executive positions for the Rockefeller Center in the
1930's, 1940's and 1950's
-Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs (1944-45)
-Undersecretary of Health, Education and Welfare (1953-54)
-Governor of New York (1958-73)
-Failed in his effort to obtain his party's Presidential nomination (1960, 1964
and 1968)
-Vice President of the United States (1974-77)
-The second Vice President to be appointed and confirmed, rather than elected,
to office under the terms of the 25th Amendment (1974)
-He was replaced by Bob Dole as Gerald R. Ford's running mate in his failed
bid for the Presidency (1976)
-Retired to private life |
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| Walter Frederick Mondale - 42nd Vice President |
| Administration: |
James E. Carter |
| Term: |
January 20, 1977 to January 20, 1981 |
| Born: |
January 25, 1928, Ceylon, Minnesota |
| Wife: |
Joan Adams |
| Marriage: |
December 27, 1955, St. Paul, Minnesota |
| Died: |
| Burial Site: |
| Home State: |
Minnesota |
| Party: |
Democrat |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from the University of Minnesota (1951)
-Served in US Army (1951-53)
-Received his law degree from the Univ. of Minnesota and admitted to the Minnesota
bar (1956)
-Practiced law (1956-1960)
-Attorney General of Minnesota (1960-64)
-US Senate from Minnesota (1964-1977)
-Vice President of the United States (1977-81)
-Also ran for re-election with Carter on the losing Democrat ticket (1980)
-Defeated by Republican Ronald Reagan for President (1984)
-He practiced law after this defeat
-US Ambassador to Japan (1993-97)
-Retired to private life |
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| George Herbert Walker Bush - 43rd Vice President |
| Administration: |
Ronald Reagan |
| Term: |
January 20, 1981 to January 20, 1989 |
| Born: |
June 12, 1924, Milton, Massachusetts |
| Wife: |
Barbara Pierce |
| Marriage: |
January 6, 1945, Rye, New York |
| Died: |
| Burial Site: |
| Home State: |
Texas |
| Party: |
Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-His father, Prescott Bush, was a US Senator from Connecticut (1952-63)
-Enlisted as the youngest Navy pilot in the Pacific in World War II (1942)
-Shot down by the Japanese and rescued during World War II (1944)
-Graduated from Yale University (1948)
-After graduating from Yale, he moved to Texas and entered the oil business
(1948)
-US House of Representatives from Texas (1967-71)
-Defeated in race for US Senator from Texas (1970)
-Ambassador to the United Nations (1971-72)
-Chairman of the Republican National Committee (1973-74)
-Chief of US Liaison Office, Peking, China (1974-75)
-Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (1976-77)
-Failed in his effort to become the Republican nominee for President (1980)
-Vice President of the United States (1981-89)
-President of the United States (1989-93)
-Fifth of only five Vice Presidents to be elected President in his own right
(1988)
-Defeated in his bid for re-election to the Presidency by Bill Clinton (1992)
-His son, George W. Bush, became the 43rd President of the United States (2001) |
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James Danforth Quayle - 44th Vice President
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| Administration: |
George H.W. Bush |
| Term: |
January 20, 1989 to January 20, 1993 |
| Born: |
February 4, 1947, Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Wife: |
Marilyn Tucker |
| Marriage: |
November 18, 1972, Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Died: |
| Burial Site: |
| Home State: |
Indiana |
| Party: |
Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Grandson of newspaper publisher Eugene C. Pulliam
-Reporter and pressman for the Huntington (Indiana) Herald-Press (1965-69)
-Served in the Indiana National Guard (1969-75)
-Passed bar exam (1974)
-US House of Representatives from Indiana (1977-81)
-US Senate from Indiana (1981-89)
-Vice President of the United States (1989-93)
-Also ran for reelection with Bush on the losing Republican ticket (1992)
-Wrote several books after leaving the Vice Presidency
-Failed in his effort to obtain his party's Presidential nomination (2000) |
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| Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. - 45th Vice President |
| Administration: |
William J Clinton |
| Term: |
January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001 |
| Born: |
March 31, 1948, Washington, DC |
| Wife: |
Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson |
| Marriage: |
May 19, 1970, Washington, DC |
| Died: |
| Burial Site: |
| Home State: |
Tennessee |
| Party: |
Democrat |
| Career Highlights: |
-His father, Albert Gore, Sr., was a US Senator from Tennessee (1953-71)
-Served as an Army journalist in Saigon during the Vietnam War
-Worked as journalist for the Nashville Tennessean before entering politics
-US House of Representatives from Tennessee (1977-85)
-US Senate from Tennessee (1985-1993)
-Failed in his effort to become the Democrat nominee for President (1988 and
1992)
-Vice President of the United States (1993-2001)
-Lost to George W. Bush as Democrat candidate for the Presidency (2000) |
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| Richard Bruce Cheney - 46th Vice President |
| Administration: |
George W. Bush |
| Term: |
January 20, 2001 to present |
| Born: |
January 30, 1941, Lincoln, Nebraska |
| Wife: |
Lynne Vincent |
| Died: |
| Burial Site: |
| Home State: |
Wyoming |
| Party: |
Republican |
| Career Highlights: |
-Graduated from the University of Wyoming (1965)
-Congressional Fellow (1968-69)
-Special Assistant to the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (1969-70)
-White House Staff Assistant (1971)
-Assistant Director, Cost of Living Council (1971-73)
-Deputy Assistant to the President (1974-75)
-Chief of Staff to President Gerald Ford (1975-77)
-US House of Representatives from Wyoming (1979-89)
-Secretary of Defense, Bush Administration (1989-93)
-Vice Chairman, Baltimore/Washington Corridor Chamber of Commerce (1994-95)
-CEO of Halliburton Company (1995-2000)
-Vice President of the United States (2001 to present) |
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