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The vice president of the United States is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the United States federal government after the president of the United States. [1] The vice president also serves as the president of the Senate and may choose to cast a tie-breaking vote on decisions made by the Senate. Vice presidents have ...
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 ...
Adams was the first person to hold the office of vice president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. He was a dedicated diarist and regularly corresponded with important contemporaries, including his wife and adviser Abigail Adams and his friend and political rival Thomas Jefferson .
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.
John Adams, who served as the first U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, became the first vice president after only winning 34 electoral votes. Not even all states were able to choose the president.
Curtis was the first multiracial person to serve as Vice President of the United States, [26] and was the only one until Kamala Harris was inaugurated in 2021. [39] Curtis was also the only United States vice president to have inaugurated the Olympic Games. [40]
Vice President of the United States: 1844: Lost to Theodore Frelinghuysen. Later won in 1848. Whig nomination for President of the United States: 1852: Lost to Winfield Scott: President of the United States: 1856: Ran on Whig and Know-Nothing tickets 1856; came in third place behind James Buchanan and John C. Fremont: John C. Breckinridge ...
Presidential elections were first held in the United States from December 15, 1788 to January 7, 1789, under the new Constitution ratified in 1788. George Washington was unanimously elected for the first of his two terms as president and John Adams became the first vice president.