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The vice president-elect is JD Vance, who will assume office as the 50th vice president on January 20, 2025. [4] [5] There have been 49 U.S. vice presidents since the office was created in 1789. Originally, the vice president was the person who received the second-most votes for president in the Electoral College.
This is a list of vice presidents of the United States by time in office. The basis of the list is the difference between dates. The length of a full four-year vice-presidential term of office amounts to 1,461 days (three common years of 365 days plus one leap year of 366 days). If counted by number of calendar days all the figures would be one ...
Nineteen of the 49 vice presidents of the United States have attempted a run for the presidency after being elected vice president. [1] Six have been elected to the presidency, or almost a third of running vice-presidents, while seven have lost the presidential election, and one has dropped out. Eleven have earned the primary nomination in ...
Vice President Year(s) served Notes Alabama: William R. King: 1819–1844 President pro tempore, 1836-1841 1848–1852 President pro tempore, 1850-1852. Resigned to become vice president California: Richard Nixon: 1950–1953 Resigned to become vice president Kamala Harris: 2017–2021 Resigned to become vice president Delaware: Joe Biden: 1973 ...
Some vice presidents have been born in one state, but are commonly associated with another. New York was the birth state of eight vice presidents, the most of any state: George Clinton, Daniel D. Tompkins, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Schuyler Colfax, William A. Wheeler, Theodore Roosevelt, and James S. Sherman.
Vice-President: Ndaba Gaolathe: 7 November 2024 Brazil: Vice President: Geraldo Alckmin: 1 January 2023 Bulgaria: Vice President: Iliana Iotova: 22 January 2017 Burundi: Vice President: Prosper Bazombanza: 24 June 2020 China: Vice President: Han Zheng: 10 March 2023 Colombia: Vice President: Francia Márquez: 7 August 2022 Costa Rica: Vice ...
Vice presidents de facto. First vice-president of State Affairs Commission – Choe Ryong-hae – (2019–present) Vice-president of State Affairs Commission – Kim Tok Hun (2021–present) Vice presidents de jure. Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of Supreme People's Assembly – Kang Yun Sok (2021–present) Laos
The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest ranking office in the executive branch [8] [9] of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession. The vice president is also an officer in the legislative branch, as the president of the Senate.