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Nine vice presidents have ascended to the presidency in this way: eight ( John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S. Truman, and Lyndon B. Johnson) through the president's death and one ( Gerald Ford) through the president's resignation. The vice president also serves as the ...
Kamala Harris is the 49th and current vice president of the United States. A former senator, she is the first African American, first Asian American and first female occupant of the office. Harris is the highest ranking female official in United States history. She assumed office on January 20, 2021.
After Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, Harris assumed office as vice president on January 20, 2021. [220] She is the United States' first female vice president, the highest-ranking female elected official in U.S. history, and the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president.
Kamala Harris, the most recent U.S. vice president to run for president. 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 over a third of running vice-presidents, while seven have lost the presidential election, and ...
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 greater. Since 1789, there have been 49 people sworn into office as Vice President of the United States. Of these, nine ...
This is the only day of the year having the birthday of multiple vice presidents. [ 1] The oldest living vice president is Dick Cheney, born on January 30, 1941 (age 83 years, 195 days). The youngest living vice president is the incumbent, Kamala Harris, born on October 20, 1964 (age 59 years, 297 days). The shortest-lived vice president was ...
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979), sometimes referred to by his nickname Rocky, [1] was an American businessman and politician who served as the 41st vice president of the United States from 1974 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford. A member of the Republican Party and the wealthy Rockefeller family, he previously ...
Richard Bruce Cheney ( / ˈtʃeɪni / CHAY-nee; [ a] born January 30, 1941) is an American retired politician and businessman who served as the 46th vice president of the United States from 2001 to 2009 under President George W. Bush. Often cited as the most powerful vice president in American history, [ 4][ 5] Cheney previously served as White ...