List of vice presidents of the United States by other offices held
This is a list of vice presidents of the United States by other offices (either elected or appointive) held, either before or after service as the vice president.
Federal Government
Executive Branch
Presidents
President | Year(s) served | Notes |
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John Adams | 1797–1801 | First sitting vice president elected president |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801–1809 | Second sitting vice president elected president |
Martin Van Buren | 1837–1841 | Third sitting vice president elected president |
John Tyler | 1841–1845 | Became president after Harrison's death |
Millard Fillmore | 1850–1853 | Became president after Taylor's death |
Andrew Johnson | 1865–1869 | Became president after Lincoln's assassination |
Chester A. Arthur | 1881–1885 | Became president after Garfield's assassination |
Theodore Roosevelt | 1901–1909 | Became president after McKinley's assassination |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923–1929 | Became president after Harding's death |
Harry S. Truman | 1945–1953 | Became president after Roosevelt's death |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963–1969 | Became president after Kennedy's assassination |
Richard Nixon | 1969–1974 | Only former vice president to become president in a non-immediate fashion |
Gerald Ford | 1974–1977 | Became president after Nixon's resignation |
George H. W. Bush | 1989–1993 | Fourth sitting vice president elected president |
In addition, both George H. W. Bush and Dick Cheney served briefly as acting president while the president, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush respectively, was undergoing a routine medical procedures.
Cabinet secretaries
Secretary | Office | President served under | Year(s) served | Notes |
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Thomas Jefferson | Secretary of State | George Washington | 1790–1793 | |
John C. Calhoun | Secretary of War | James Monroe | 1817–1825 | |
Secretary of State | John Tyler | 1844–1845 | Served after being Vice President | |
Martin Van Buren | Secretary of State | Andrew Jackson | 1829–1831 | |
Henry A. Wallace | Secretary of Agriculture | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1933–1940 | |
Secretary of Commerce | 1945–1946 | Served after being Vice President | ||
Harry S. Truman | ||||
Dick Cheney | Chief of Staff | Gerald Ford | 1975–1977 | |
Secretary of Defense | George H. W. Bush | 1989–1993 |
John Adams (as Vice President) and Thomas Jefferson both served in the Cabinet of George Washington.
Theodore Roosevelt (from 1897–1898) served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President McKinley. John C. Breckinridge was Secretary of War in the Confederate States of America
Ambassadors
President | Position | President served under | Year(s) served | Notes |
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John Adams | Minister to the Netherlands | Continental Congress | 1782–1788 | |
Minister to Britain | Continental Congress | 1785–1788 | ||
Thomas Jefferson | Minister Plenipotentiary to France | Continental Congress | 1785–1789 | |
Martin Van Buren | Minister to Britain | Andrew Jackson | 1831–1832 | |
George M. Dallas | Minister to Russia | Martin Van Buren | 1837–1839 | |
Minister to Britain | James Buchanan | 1856–1861 | Served after being Vice President | |
William R. King | Minister to France | James K. Polk | 1844–1846 | |
Hannibal Hamlin | Ambassador to Spain | James A. Garfield | 1881–1883 | Served after being Vice President |
Levi P. Morton | Minister Plenipotentiary to France | James A. Garfield | 1881–1885 | |
Chester A. Arthur | ||||
Charles G. Dawes | United States Ambassador to Britain | Herbert Hoover | 1929–1931 | Served after being Vice President |
Walter Mondale | United States Ambassador to Japan | Bill Clinton | 1993–1996 | Served after being Vice President |
George H. W. Bush | Ambassador to the United Nations | Richard Nixon | 1971–1973 | |
Other federal appointees
Judicial Branch
None
Legislative Branch
Senators
State | Vice President | Year(s) served | Notes |
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Alabama | William R. King | 1819–1844 | |
1848–1852 | Resigned to become Vice President | ||
California | Richard Nixon | 1951–1953 | Resigned to become Vice President |
Delaware | Joe Biden | 1973–2009 | Resigned to become Vice President |
Indiana | Thomas A. Hendricks | 1863–1869 | |
Charles W. Fairbanks | 1897–1905 | Resigned to become Vice President | |
Dan Quayle | 1981–1989 | Resigned to become Vice President | |
Kansas | Charles Curtis | 1907–1913 | |
1915–1929 | Resigned to become Vice President | ||
Kentucky | Richard Mentor Johnson | 1819–1829 | |
John C. Breckinridge | 1861 | Served after being Vice President | |
Alben W. Barkley | 1927–1949 | Resigned to become Vice President | |
1955–1956 | Served after being Vice President | ||
Maine | Hannibal Hamlin | 1848–1861 | Resigned to become Vice President |
1869–1881 | Served after being Vice President | ||
Massachusetts | Henry Wilson | 1855–1873 | Resigned to become Vice President |
Minnesota | Hubert Humphrey | 1949–1964 | Resigned to become Vice President |
1971–1978 | Served after being Vice President | ||
Walter Mondale | 1964–1976 | Resigned to become Vice President | |
Missouri | Harry S. Truman | 1935–1945 | Resigned to become Vice President |
New York | Aaron Burr | 1791–1797 | |
Martin Van Buren | 1821–1828 | ||
Pennsylvania | George M. Dallas | 1831–1833 | |
South Carolina | John C. Calhoun | 1832–1843 | Served after being Vice President |
1845–1850 | Died in office | ||
Tennessee | Andrew Johnson | 1857–1862 | |
1875 | Served after being Vice President | ||
Al Gore | 1985–1993 | Resigned to become Vice President | |
Texas | Lyndon B. Johnson | 1949–1961 | Senate minority leader 1953–1955 Senate majority leader 1955–1961 Resigned to become Vice President |
Virginia | John Tyler | 1827–1836 |
A number of future vice presidents served together while in the Senate:
- R. Johnson served with Martin Van Buren (1821–1828) and Tyler (1827–1829). Tyler later served with Dallas (1831–1833).
- Hamlin served with Wilson (1855–1861; 1869–1873) and A. Johnson (1857–1861; 1875). Wilson also served with Hendricks (1863–1869).
- Curtis served with Barkley (1927–1929). Barkley later served with Truman (1935–1945), Humphrey (1955–1956) and L. Johnson (1955–1956). Humphrey and L. Johnson continued to serve together (1956–1961) and also served with Nixon (1950–1953). Humphrey would be succeeded by Mondale and would later serve with him (1971–1976) and Biden (1973–1978). Biden would later serve with Quayle (1981–1989) and Gore (1985–1993).
Members of the House of Representatives
State | Vice President | Year(s) served | Notes |
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California | Richard Nixon | 1947–1950 | Later elected to the Senate |
Illinois | Adlai Stevenson | 1875–1877 | |
1879–1881 | |||
Indiana | Schuyler Colfax | 1855–1869 | Served as Speaker of the House |
Thomas A. Hendricks | 1851–1855 | ||
Dan Quayle | 1977–1981 | Later elected to the United States Senate | |
Mike Pence | 2001–2013 | ||
Kansas | Charles Curtis | 1893–1907 | |
Kentucky | Richard M. Johnson | 1806–1819 | |
1829–1837 | |||
John C. Breckinridge | 1851–1855 | ||
Alben W. Barkley | 1913–1927 | Later elected to the United States Senate | |
Maine | Hannibal Hamlin | 1843–1847 | |
Massachusetts | Elbridge Gerry | 1789–1793 | |
Michigan | Gerald Ford | 1949–1973 | House minority leader 1965–1973 |
New York | Millard Fillmore | 1833–1835 | |
1837–1843 | |||
William Wheeler | 1861–1863 | ||
1869–1877 | |||
Levi P. Morton | 1879–1881 | ||
James S. Sherman | 1887–1891 | ||
1893–1909 | |||
North Carolina | William R. King | 1811–1816 | |
South Carolina | John C. Calhoun | 1811–1817 | |
Tennessee | Andrew Johnson | 1843–1853 | Later elected to the Senate |
Al Gore | 1977–1985 | Later elected to the United States Senate | |
Texas | John Nance Garner | 1903–1933 | Served as Speaker of the House |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1937–1949 | Later elected to the Senate | |
George H. W. Bush | 1967–1971 | ||
Virginia | John Tyler | 1816–1821 | Later elected to Senate |
Wyoming | Dick Cheney | 1979–1989 |
A number of future vice presidents served in the House together:
- R. Johnson served with King (1811–1816), Calhoun (1811–1817), Tyler (1816–1819) and Fillmore (1833–1835).
- Hamlin served with A. Johnson (1843–1847). A. Johnson later served with both Breckinridge and Hendricks (1851–1853).
- Colfax served with Wheeler (1861–1863). Wheeler later served with Stevenson (1875–1877). Stevenson later served with Morton (1879–1881).
- Sherman served with Curtis (1893–1907) and Garner (1903–1909). Garner later served with Barkley (1913–1927).
- Nixon served with L. Johnson (1947–1949) and Ford (1949–1950). Ford later served with Bush (1967–1971).
- Gore served with Quayle (1977–1981) and Cheney (1979–1985).
Continental Congress
Vice President | State | Year(s) served |
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John Adams | Massachusetts | 1774–1778 |
Thomas Jefferson | Virginia | 1775–1776 1783–1784 |
Elbridge Gerry | Massachusetts | 1776–1780 |
State Government
Governors
State | Vice President | Year(s) served | Notes |
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Indiana | Thomas A. Hendricks | 1873–1877 | |
Thomas R. Marshall | 1909–1913 | ||
Mike Pence | 2013–2017 | ||
Maine | Hannibal Hamlin | 1857 | |
Massachusetts | Elbridge Gerry | 1810–1812 | |
Calvin Coolidge | 1919–1921 | In 1919, Coolidge gained national attention when he ordered the Massachusetts National Guard to forcefully end the Boston Police Department strike. | |
Maryland | Spiro Agnew | 1967–1969 | |
New York | George Clinton | 1777–1795 | |
1801–1804 | |||
Daniel D. Tompkins | 1807–1817 | ||
Martin Van Buren | 1829 | ||
Levi P. Morton | 1895–1896 | Served after being Vice President | |
Theodore Roosevelt | 1899–1900 | ||
Nelson Rockefeller | 1959–1973 | ||
Tennessee | Andrew Johnson | 1853–1857 | |
1862–1865 | Military governor | ||
Virginia | Thomas Jefferson | 1779–1781 | |
John Tyler | 1825–1827 |
State legislators
- See below for information about pre-1776 colonial offices held.
Other statewide offices
Vice President | Office and Jurisdiction | Year(s) served |
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Aaron Burr | Attorney General of New York | 1789–1791 |
Martin Van Buren | Attorney General of New York | 1815–1819 |
George M. Dallas | Attorney General of Pennsylvania | 1833–1835 |
Millard Fillmore | New York State Comptroller | 1848–1849 |
Calvin Coolidge | Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts | 1916–1919 |
Walter Mondale | Attorney General of Minnesota | 1960–1964 |
Municipal Government
Vice President | Office and jurisdiction | Year(s) served |
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Martin Van Buren | Surrogate of Columbia County, New York | 1808–1812 |
George M. Dallas | Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 1828–1829 |
Andrew Johnson | Alderman, Greeneville, Tennessee | 1828–1830 |
Mayor of Greeneville, Tennessee | 1830–1833 | |
William A. Wheeler | District Attorney; Franklin County, New York | 1846–1849 |
James S. Sherman | Mayor of Utica, New York | 1884 |
Theodore Roosevelt | Superintendent of the New York Board of Police Commissioners | 1895–1897 |
Calvin Coolidge | Mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts | 1910–1911 |
Harry S. Truman | Eastern District Judge, Jackson County, Missouri | 1923–1925 |
Harry S. Truman | Presiding Judge, Jackson County, Missouri | 1927–1935 |
Alben W. Barkley | District Attorney of McCracken County, Kentucky | 1906–1913 |
Hubert H. Humphrey | Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota | 1945–1948 |
Spiro Agnew | County Executive of Baltimore, Maryland | 1962–1966 |
Joe Biden | Member of the New Castle County, Delaware County Council | 1970–1972 |
Foreign governments
Colonial, Confederate legislators, and Confederate Cabinet
Legislature | Vice President | Year(s) served | Notes |
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Confederate Cabinet | John C. Breckinridge | 1865 | Secretary of War Confederate States of America, served after being Vice President |
Confederate Congress | John Tyler | 1861–1862 | Under the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, served after being President. |
Massachusetts House of Representatives | Elbridge Gerry | 1772–1775 | Under the Kingdom of Great Britain before 1776. |
John Adams | 1768–1774 | ||
Virginia House of Burgesses | Thomas Jefferson | 1769–1774 | |
Lost races
Other than re-election to the vice presidency