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Vice President of the United States, the second-highest ranking official in the U.S. government. The PRESIDENT and vice president are the only nationally elected officials. If the president dies, resigns, or is removed from office, the vice president succeeds him. In addition, the vice president may serve temporarily as acting president if the president, for whatever reason, is unable to discharge the duties of the office. Like the president, the vice president must be at least 35 years old.
The CONSTITUTION of the United States prescribes only one duty for the vice president. He is the president, or presiding officer, of the U.S. SENATE, and if a Senate vote ends in a tie the vice president may vote to break the tie. The vice president has been assigned other duties by statute, and the president may give him other responsibilities. The importance of the vice president derives almost entirely from the fact that at any moment he may succeed to the most powerful office in the world.
Spiro Theodore Agnew was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 9, 1918, the son of a Greek immigrant whose name originally was Anagnostopoulos. Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon chose him as his running mate in 1968. He resigned in 1973 when he was fined for income tax evasion.
Alben William Barkley was born in Graves County, Kentucky, on November 24, 1877. In 1948, Harry S. Truman chose Barkley as his presidential running mate. He died on April 30, 1956.
Vice-President for President-elect Barack Obama.
John Cabell Breckinridge, (1821-1875), James Buchanan's vice president of the United States (1857-1861) before giving his allegiance to the Confederacy. Born near Lexington, Ky., on Jan. 15, 1821, he was educated at Centre College and Transylvania University and became a lawyer.
John Caldwell Calhoun, (1782-1850), was elected vice president of the United States in 1824 with support from both the Adams and Jackson factions. He served under the victorious John Quincy Adams, but in 1828 he supported Andrew Jackson and was again elected to the vice presidency when Jackson won the presidency.
Sites about Richard B. Cheney, 1941- , Vice-President of the United States 2001- under President George W. Bush.
George Clinton was elected vice president under Thomas Jeffersonin 1804. Failing in his presidential ambitions in 1808, he accepted the second spot again under James Madison. He died in Washington, D.C., on April 20, 1812.
Charles Curtis was born in North Topeka, Kansas, on January 25, 1860. In 1928 he was elected vice president on the Republican ticket with Herbert Hoover as president. He died in Washington on February 8, 1936.
George Mifflin Dallas, (1792-1864), born in Philadelphia, Pa., on July 10, 1792. He graduated from Princeton in 1810 and became an attorney. He was elected vice president on the Democratic ticket with James Polk in 1844 and presided over the Senate during the stormy days of the Mexican War and the Wilmot Proviso controversy.
Charles Warren Fairbanks was born on May 11, 1852, near Unionville Center, Ohio. He served as vice president under Theodore Roosevelt (1905-1909). He died in Indianapolis on June 4, 1918.
John Nance Garner was born near Detroit, Texas, on November 22, 1868. He was elected vice president with Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 and 1936. He died in Uvalde, Texas on November 7, 1967.
Hannibal Hamlin (August 27, 1809 – July 4, 1891) was the 15th Vice President of the United States, serving during President Abraham Lincoln's first term from 1861-1865.
Thomas A. Hendricks was born near Zanesville, Ohio, on Sept. 7, 1819. He was elected to the vice presidency on the ticket headed by Grover Cleveland in 1884. He served less than nine months, until his death in Indianapolis on Nov. 25, 1885.
Garret A. Hobart was born near Long Branch, N.J., on June 3, 1844. Elected vice president on the ticket headed by William McKinley. He served in that office until his death in Paterson, N.J. on Nov. 21, 1899.
Hubert H. Humphrey was Vice President of the United States 1965-1969, United States Senator 1949-1964 and 1971-1978, and Mayor of Minneapolis 1945-1948.
Richard Mentor Johnson, (1781-1850), 9th vice president of the United States. He was born in Beargrass (now Louisville), Ky., on Oct. 17, 1781. He studied law at Transylvania University and was admitted to the bar in 1802. Johnson was elected to the state legislature in 1804.Johnson won the vice presidential nomination on the Democratic ticket with Martin Van Buren in 1836. Van Buren won a majority in the electoral college, but Johnson did not, and for the only time the choice of a vice president went to the U.S. Senate, which elected Johnson.
William Rufus de Vane King, (1786-1853), 13th vice president of the United States. He was born in Sampson county, N.C., on April 7, 1786. Elected the Democratic vice-presidential nominee with Franklin Pierce in 1852, King never presided over the Senate as vice president. Ill with tuberculosis, he was in Havana, Cuba, on Inauguration Day, where, by an act of Congress, he took the oath of office. Returning to his home near Cahaba, Ala., he died the next day, April 18, 1853.
Thomas Riley Marshall was born in North Manchester, Indiana, on March 14, 1854. In 1912 he was chosen as the vice president with Woodrow Wilson. Reelected in 1916, he served with Wilson until 1921.
Walter Frederick Mondale was born in Ceylon, Minnesota, on January 5, 1928. In 1955 he married Joan Adams. Jimmy Carter chose Mondale as his running mate in 1976. He was inaugurated as 42d vice president on January 20, 1977.
Levi P. Morton was born in Shoreham, Vt., on May 16, 1824. He was vice president under Benjamin Harrison from 1889 to 1893. He died in Rhinebeck, N.Y., on May 16, 1920.
James Danforth Quayle was vice president of the United States under George Bush. He was born in Indianapolis, Ind., on Feb. 4, 1947.
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was born on July 8, 1908, in Bar Harbor, Maine the second son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.He was married to Mary Todhunter Clark in 1930, a union that produced five children. After their divorce in 1962 he married Margaretta (Happy) Murphy, with whom he had two sons.
In August 1974, President Gerald Ford nominated him to be vice president of the United States. He was sworn in as the 41st vice president on December 19, 1974.
He died in New York City, of a heart attack, on January 26, 1979.
James Schoolcraft Sherman was born in Utica, N. Y., on October 24, 1855. He was elected vice president on the ticket with William Howard Taft in 1908. He died in Utica on October 30, 1912, while running for reelection. He was 57 years old.
Adlai E. Stevenson - Encyclopedia Americana - Born in Christian County, Ky., on Oct. 23, 1835. Elected vice president with running mate Grover Cleveland, serving through the 1893-1897 term. He died in Chicago, Ill., on June 14, 1914.
Daniel D. Tompkins was born in Scarsdale, N.Y., on June 21, 1774. He was U.S. vice president under James Monroe from 1817 to 1825. He died in Staten Island, N.Y., on June 11, 1825.
Henry Agard Wallace was elected vice president in 1940 and served in this capacity during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's third term in office. He died in 1965.
William A. Wheeler was born in Malone, N.Y., on June 30, 1819. He was vice president in 1877-1881, having been elected in 1876 as running mate of the Republican nominee, Rutherford B. Hayes. Wheeler died in Malone, N.Y., on June 4, 1887.
Henry Wilson was born in Farmington, N.H., on Feb. 16, 1812. Originally named Jeremiah Jones Colbath, it was legally changed in 1833. Elected vice president with Ulysses S. Grant in 1872, Wilson suffered a stroke in 1875 and died in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 22, 1875.
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