Meet the Vice Presidents

{ work in progress. obviously. }

  • John Adams

    VICE PRESIDENT TO GEORGE WASHINGTON / #1

    THE ONLY TIME THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT WERE FROM DIFFERENT PARTIES

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  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    VICE PRESIDENT TO JOHN ADAMS / #2

    HE AND JOHN ADAMS BOTH DIED THE SAME DAY & YEAR — JULY 4

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  • Aaron Burr

    Aaron Burr

    VICE PRESIDENT TO THOMAS JEFFERSON / #3

    KILLED ALEXANDER HAMILTON

    HE’S NOT THE ONLY VICE PRESIDENT TO SHOOT SOMEONE WHILE IN OFFICE {COUGH DICK CHENEY AHEM}… BUT HE WAS THE ONLY ONE TO DO IT ON PURPOSE

    I THINK

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  • George Clinton

    George Clinton

    VICE PRESIDENT TO THOMAS JEFFERSON / #3 AND JAMES MADISON / #4

    ONE OF TWO VEEPS TO SERVE UNDER TWO DIFFERENT PRESIDENTS

    YOU’RE GONNA NEED TO IMAGE SEARCH THIS GUY’S EYEBROWS; THEY ARE MAGNIFICENT

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  • Elbridge Gerry

    Elbridge Gerry

    VICE PRESIDENT TO JAMES MADISON / #4

    REPLACED THE PREVIOUS GUY, WHO DIED IN OFFICE

    ALSO DIED IN OFFICE

    (MADISON WAS THE ONLY POTUS TO HAVE TWO VPS DIE IN OFFICE; HE HIMSELF ALSO NEARLY DIED)

    “GERRY” HAS A SOFT “G” (LIKE “GEEZ,” NOT LIKE “GIMME A BREAK”)

    GERRYMANDERING WAS NAMED FOR HIM

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  • Daniel D. Tompkins

    Daniel D. Tompkins

    VICE PRESIDENT TO JAMES MONROE // #5

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  • John C. Calhoun

    John C. Calhoun

    VICE PRESIDENT TO JOHN QUINCY ADAMS / #6 AND ANDREW JACKSON / #7

    ONE OF TWO VICE PRESIDENTS TO SERVE UNDER TWO PRESIDENTS

    VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: GO AHEAD AND DO AN IMAGE SEARCH ON HIM. IT’S HORRIFYING. AND IT’S OK THAT I SAY THAT, BECAUSE HE WAS A TERRIBLE PERSON

    NOW GO AHEAD AND DO AN IMAGE SEARCH FOR “YOUNG JOHN CALHOUN” (Hoping that last search will cleanse your brain so you don’t have nightmares tonight)

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  • Martin Van Buren

    Martin Van Buren

    VICE PRESIDENT TO ANDREW JACKSON / #7

    ENGLISH WASN’T HIS FIRST LANGUAGE — DUTCH WAS

    HE WAS ALSO THE FIRST PRESIDENT BORN A U.S. CITIZEN

    HAD A SUPER-FANCY TOILET (ONE OF THE FIRST INDOOR TOILETS IN THE COUNTRY)

    HIS HOME WAS “COMMODIOUS,” WHICH DISAPPOINTINGLY MEANS “BIG” AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FANCY COMMODE

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  • Richard Mentor Johnson

    Richard M. Johnson

    VICE PRESIDENT TO MARTIN VAN BUREN / #8

    HE WAS COMMON-LAW MARRIED TO JULIA, A WOMAN HE ENSLAVED. HE NEVER FREED HER, BUT THEY DID SEEM TO BE A FAMILY. HE MADE SURE THEIR DAUGHTERS RECEIVED A SUPERIOR EDUCATION. JULIA RAN HIS BUSINESS WHILE HE WAS AWAY.

    SHE DIED FOUR YEARS BEFORE HE WAS VP

    (I NEED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS GUY)

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  • John Tyler

    John Tyler

    VICE PRESIDENT TO WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON / # 9

    NOBODY KNEW WHAT TO DO WHEN HARRISON DIED — HE WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO DIE IN OFFICE

    TYLER JUST, YA KNOW, DECIDED TO BE PRESIDENT AND THAT SET THE PRECEDENT

    ALSO… USS PRINCETON

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  • George M. Dallas

    George M. Dallas

    VICE PRESIDENT TO JAMES K. POLK // #11

  • Millard Fillmore

    Millard Fillmore

    VICE PRESIDENT TO ZACHARY TAYLOR / #12

    I’M NOT A FAN

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  • William Rufus King

    William Rufus King

    VICE PRESIDENT TO FRANKLIN PIERCE / #14

    ONLY VICE PRESIDENT TO TAKE THE OATH ON FOREIGN SOIL (HE WAS IN CUBA)

    DIED BEFORE DOING ANYTHING VICE PRESIDENTIAL

    FIRST GAY VP?

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  • John C. Breckinridge

    John C. Breckinridge

    VICE PRESIDENT TO JAMES BUCHANAN // #15

  • Hannibal Hamlin

    Hannibal Hamlin

    VICE PRESIDENT TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN / #16

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  • Andrew Johnson

    Andrew Johnson

    VICE PRESIDENT TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN / #16

    UNFORTUNATELY

    WE MIGHT BE IN BETTER SHAPE IF LINCOLN’S ORIGINAL VP (HANNIBAL HAMLIN) WAS IN OFFICE WHEN HE WAS ASSASSINATED

    JOHNSON WAS TERRIBLE. BUT, HE DID RISE UP FROM BEING A POOR, ILLITERATE INDENTURED SERVANT TO BEING THE POTUS… SO, THAT’S SOMETHING

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  • Schuyler Colfax

    Schuyler Colfax

    VICE PRESIDENT TO ULYSSES S. GRANT / #18

  • Henry Wilson

    Henry Wilson

    VICE PRESIDENT TO ULYSSES S. GRANT / #18

  • William A. Wheeler

    William A. Wheeler

    VICE PRESIDENT TO RUTHERFORD B. HAYES / #19

  • Chester A. Arthur

    Chester A. Arthur

    VICE PRESIDENT TO JAMES GARFIELD / #19

    SPENT A LOT OF MONEY ON CLOTHES

    THEY GAVE HIM THE VP POST TO KEEP HIM OUT OF TROUBLE

    THEN HE BECAME PRESIDENT

    HE CLEANED UP HIS ACT, WITH GUIDANCE FROM A YOUNG WOMAN WHO SENT HIM UNSOLICITED ADVICE

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  • Thomas A. Hendricks

    Thomas A. Hendricks

    VICE PRESIDENT TO GROVER CLEVELAND / #22

  • Levi P. Morton

    Levi P. Morton

    VICE PRESIDENT TO BENJAMIN HARRISON / #23

  • Adlai Stevenson

    Adlai Stevenson

    VICE PRESIDENT TO GROVER CLEVELAND / #24

  • Garret Hobart

    Garret Hobart

    VICE PRESIDENT WILLIAM McKINLEY / #25

  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Teddy Roosevelt

    VICE PRESIDENT TO WILLIAM McKINLEY / #25

    YOUNGEST PRESIDENT, ASSUMING THE PRESIDENCY AT 42 AFTER McKINLEY WAS ASSASSINATED

    (JFK WAS THE YOUNGEST ELECTED PRESIDENT, AT 43)

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  • Charles W. Fairbanks

    Charles W. Fairbanks

    VICE PRESIDENT TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT / #26

  • James S. Sherman

    James S. Sherman

    VICE PRESIDENT TO WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT / #27

  • Thomas R. Marshall

    Thomas R. Marshall

    VICE PRESIDENT TO WOODROW WILSON / #28

  • Calvin Coolidge

    Calvin Coolidge

    VICE PRESIDENT TO WARREN G. HARDING / #29

    HARDING MADE THE VP PART OF THE CABINET FOR THE FIRST TIME

    SUPER-HELPFUL FOR COOLIDGE, SINCE HE HAD TO TAKE OVER WHEN HARDING DIED UNEXPECTEDLY

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  • Charles G. Dawes

    Charles G. Dawes

    VICE PRESIDENT TO CALVIN COOLIDGE / #30

    NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER (ONE OF ONLY THREE VPS!)ORE

    WROTE A NUMBER 1 POP HIT

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  • Charles Curtis

    Charles Curtis

    VICE PRESIDENT TO HERBERT HOOVER / #31

  • John Nance Garner

    John Nance Garner

    VICE PRESIDENT TO FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT / #32

    SAID THE VICE PRESIDENCY WAS “NOT WORTH A PITCHER OF WARM PISS”

  • Henry A. Wallace

    Henry A. Wallace

    VICE PRESIDENT TO FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT / #32

    OUSTED FROM THE TICKET BECAUSE HE WAS TOO LIBERAL, TOO QUICK TO ANGER, AND TOO INTO MYSTICISM

  • Harry S Truman

    Harry S Truman

    VICE PRESIDENT TO FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT / #32

    FORMERLY A HABERDASHER (ONE OF MY FAVORITE WORDS!)

    THE S DOESN’T ISN’T SHORT FOR ANYTHING

    ONLY VP FOR 82 DAYS BEFORE BECOMING POTUS

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  • Alben W. Barkley

    Alben W. Barkley

    VICE PRESIDENT TO HARRY S TRUMAN / #33

  • Tricky Dick

    Richard Nixon

    VICE PRESIDENT TO DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER / #34

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  • Lyndon Johnson

    Lyndon Johnson

    VICE PRESIDENT TO JOHN F. KENNEDY / #35

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  • Hubert Humphrey

    Hubert Humphrey

    VICE PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON / #36

  • Spiro Agnew

    Spiro Agnew

    VICE PRESIDENT TO RICHARD NIXON / #37

    TOOK KICKBACKS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE

    TO BE CLEAR, THE WHITE HOUSE DIDN’T BRIBE HIM. HE TOOK BRIBES WHILE IN THE WHITE HOUSE

    THE RACE WAS ON TO GET HIM OUT OF OFFICE BEFORE NIXON WAS OUT

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  • Gerald Ford postcard

    Gerald Ford

    ALSO VICE PRESIDENT TO RICHARD NIXON / #37

    BOTH THE PACKERS AND LIONS WANTED FORD TO PLAY FOR THEM

    COSMO COVER MODEL

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  • Nelson Rockefeller

    Nelson Rockefeller

    VICE PRESIDENT TO GERALD FORD / #38

  • Walter Mondale

    Walter Mondale

    VICE PRESIDENT TO JIMMY CARTER / #39

  • George H. W. Bush

    George H. W. Bush

    VICE PRESIDENT TO RONALD REAGAN / #40

  • Dan Quayle

    Dan Quayle

    VICE PRESIDENT TO GEORGE H. W. BUSH / #41

  • Al Gore

    Al Gore

    VICE PRESIDENT TO WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON / #42

  • Dick Cheney

    Dick Cheney

    VICE PRESIDENT TO GEORGE W. BUSH / #43

    ACCORDING TO A COMPATIBLITY TEST, HE WAS BEST SUITED TO BE A FUNERAL DIRECTOR

    KNOWN AS THE “DARTH VADER OF THE ADMINISTRATION”

  • Joe Biden

    Joe Biden

    VICE PRESIDENT TO BARACK OBAMA / #44

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  • Mike Pence

    Mike Pence

    VICE PRESIDENT TO DONALD TRUMP / #45

  • Kamala Harris

    Kamala Harris

    VICE PRESIDENT TO JOE BIDEN / #46

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