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The incumbent vice president is JD Vance, who assumed office as the 50th vice president on January 20, 2025. [3] [4] There have been 50 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.
The length of a full four-year term of office for a vice president of the United States usually amounts to 1,461 days (three common years of 365 days plus one leap year of 366 days). The listed number of days is calculated as the difference between dates, which counts the number of calendar days except the first day (day zero). If the first day ...
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 ...
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 ...
All except Richard Nixon and Joe Biden were vice presidents immediately before becoming president. 9 of the 15 succeeded to the presidency upon the death or (in one case) resignation of the elected president; 5 of those 9 were not later elected.
Cooper is on Vice President Kamala Harris’ short list of potential running mates. ... Cooper was a Harris cheerleader when she was running as VP before President Joe Biden dropped out of the ...
The oldest living vice president is Dick Cheney, born on January 30, 1941 (age 84 years, 17 days). The youngest living vice president is the incumbent , JD Vance . The shortest-lived vice president was Daniel D. Tompkins , who died at the age of 50 years, 355 days, only 99 days after leaving office.
Vice President Kamala Harris has officially named Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her vice presidential running mate to help her challenge Donald Trump and JD Vance in November. The Harris campaign ...