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Vice President of the United States

second-highest constitutional office in the United States

53 dated entries naming Vice President of the United States, drawn from 47 separate years between 1797 CE and 2025 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as U.S. Vice President, US Vice President, US Vice-President, United States Vice President, VPOTUS, Vice President of the United States of America, Vice-President of the United States in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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18th century

  • 1797March 4 – John Adams is sworn in as the second president of the United States, and Thomas Jefferson is sworn in as the second vice president.source

19th century

  • 1801February – Contingent election of 1801: An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved, when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.source
  • 1804July 27 – The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which reforms the way that candidates for President and Vice President are chosen, is ratified by Tennessee, removing doubt surrounding adoption.source
  • 1805March 4 – Thomas Jefferson is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States, and George Clinton is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.source
  • 1807February 19 – Burr conspiracy: Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested on charges of treason. He is accused of plotting to annex parts of Louisiana and Mexico to become part of an independent republic.source
  • 1809March 4 – James Madison is sworn in as the fourth president of the United States, and George Clinton is sworn in for a second term as the fourth vice president.source
  • 1812April 20 – George Clinton, 4th Vice President of the United States (born 1739)source
  • 1812April 20 – George Clinton, Vice President of the United States, dies in office.source
  • 1813March 4 – James Madison is sworn in as President of the United States for his second term, and Elbridge Gerry is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.source
  • 1814November 23 – Elbridge Gerry, 5th Vice President of the United States (born 1744)source
  • 1817March 4 – James Monroe is sworn in as the fifth president of the United States, and Daniel D. Tompkins is sworn in as the sixth vice president.source
  • 1825June 11 – Daniel D. Tompkins, 6th Vice President of the United States (born 1774)source
  • 1833March 4 – Andrew Jackson is sworn in for his second term as President of the United States, and Martin Van Buren is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.source
  • 1835October 23 – Adlai Stevenson I, American lawyer and politician, 23rd Vice President of the United States (died 1914)source
  • 1836September 14 – Aaron Burr, 3rd Vice President of the United States (born 1756)source
  • 1850March 31 – John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States (born 1782)source
  • 1850November 19 – Richard Mentor Johnson, 9th Vice President of the United States (born 1780)source
  • 1853April 18 – William R. King, 13th Vice President of the United States (born 1786)source
  • 1857March 4 – James Buchanan is sworn in as the 15th president of the United States, and John C. Breckinridge is sworn in as the 14th vice president.source
  • 1864December 31 – George M. Dallas, U.S. Senator, 11th Vice President of the United States (born 1792)source
  • 1869March 4 – Ulysses S. Grant is sworn in as the 18th president of the United States, and Schuyler Colfax is sworn in as the 17th vice president.source
  • 1873March 4 – President Ulysses S. Grant begins his second term. Henry Wilson sworn in as Vice President of the United States.source
  • 1875May 17 – John C. Breckinridge, 14th Vice President of the United States, Confederate States Secretary of War (born 1821)source
  • 1875November 22 – Henry Wilson, 18th Vice President of the United States (born 1812)source
  • 1885January 13 – Schuyler Colfax, 17th Vice President of the United States (born 1823)source
  • 1885November 25 – Thomas A. Hendricks, 21st Vice President of the United States (born 1819)source
  • 1888June 19 – In Chicago, the Republican Convention opens at the Auditorium Building. Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton win the nominations for President and Vice President of the United States, respectively.source
  • 1888October 7 – Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the United States (died 1965)source
  • 1899November 21 – Garret Hobart, Vice President of the United States since 1897 for President William McKinley, dies of cardiovascular disease. The vacancy in the office will remain unfilled until the inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt as Vice President in 1901.source

20th century

  • 1901March 4 – President William McKinley begins his second term; Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as Vice President.source
  • 1911May 27 – Hubert Humphrey, American politician, Vice President of the United States (1965–1969) (died 1978)source
  • 1929March 4 – Charles Curtis takes office as the first multiracial Vice President of the United States.source
  • 1941January 30 – Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States (died 2025)source
  • 1947July 18 – President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act into law, which places the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate next in the line of succession, after the vice president.source
  • 1948March 31 – Al Gore, American politician and environmentalist, 45th Vice President of the United Statessource
  • 1956April 30 – Alben W. Barkley, 35th Vice President of the United States (born 1877)source
  • 1958May 13 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.source
  • 1959June 7 – Mike Pence, American politician and former Vice President of the United Statessource
  • 1959July 24 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, United States Vice President Richard Nixon and USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev engage in the "Kitchen Debate".source
  • 1960July 25–28 – In Chicago, the 1960 Republican National Convention nominates Vice President Richard Nixon as its candidate for President of the United States, and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. for vice-president.source
  • 1961November 17 – Michael Rockefeller, son of Governor of New York and later Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles of New Guinea.source
  • 1965November 18 – Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the United States (born 1888)source
  • 1973October 10 – Spiro Agnew resigns as Vice President of the United States.source
  • 1974August 9 – Richard Nixon becomes the first president of the United States to resign from office, an action taken to avoid being removed by impeachment and conviction in response to his role in the Watergate scandal. Vice President Gerald R. Ford becomes the 38th president upon Nixon's resignation, taking the oath of office in the East Room of the White House.source
  • 1978January 13 – Hubert Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (born 1911)source
  • 19848 February - American Vice President George H. W. Bush begins a two-day official visit to Luxembourg.source
  • 1988November 8 – The United States Vice-president and Republican nominee George H. W. Bush defeats the Democratic nominee and Governor of Massachusetts, Michael Dukakis, in the 1988 United States Presidential Election.source
  • 1993January 20 – Bill Clinton and Al Gore are inaugurated as US President and Vice President.source
  • 1996September 17 – Spiro Agnew, 77, American politician, 39th Vice President of the United States, leukemia.source

21st century

  • 2006December 26 – Gerald Ford, 93, American politician, President (1974–1977), Vice President (1973–1974), arteriosclerotic cerebrovascular disease and diffuse arteriosclerosis.source
  • 2011March 26 – Geraldine Ferraro, 75, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York (1979–1985) and 1984 vice presidential nominee, multiple myeloma.source
  • 20202020 United States presidential election: The election of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States and Kamala Harris as the 49th Vice President of the United States is called by many news media organizations after remaining vote counts (November 7) come in from key states delayed by an influx of mail-in ballots caused by the pandemic, defeating incumbent President Donald Trump.source
  • 2025February 28 – A meeting between U.S. president Donald Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy takes place at the White House. Trump and V.P. JD Vance sharply criticise Zelenskyy, raising questions about support for Ukraine, a proposed end to the war, and the country's future in general.source

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