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Vice President of the United States

second-highest constitutional office in the United States

39 dated entries naming Vice President of the United States, drawn from 34 separate years between 1804 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.

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19th century

  • 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
  • 1812April 20 – George Clinton, 4th Vice President of the United States (b. 1739)source
  • 1814November 23 – Elbridge Gerry, 5th Vice President of the United States (b. 1744)source
  • 1825June 11 – Daniel D. Tompkins, 6th Vice President of the United States (b. 1774)source
  • 1835June 12 – George Atzerodt, conspirator with John Wilkes Booth, assigned to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson (d. 1865)source
  • 1835October 23 – Adlai Stevenson I, American lawyer and politician, 23rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1914)source
  • 1850March 31 – John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States (b. 1782)source
  • 1850November 19 – Richard Mentor Johnson, 9th Vice President of the United States (b. 1780)source
  • 1853April 18 – William R. King, 13th Vice President of the United States (b. 1786)source
  • 1864December 31 – George M. Dallas, U.S. Senator, 11th Vice President of the United States (b. 1792)source
  • 1875May 17 – John C. Breckinridge, 14th Vice President of the United States, Confederate States Secretary of War (b. 1821)source
  • 1875November 22 – Henry Wilson, 18th Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)source
  • 1885January 13 – Schuyler Colfax, 17th Vice President of the United States (b. 1823)source
  • 1885November 25 – Thomas A. Hendricks, 21st Vice President of the United States (b. 1819)source
  • 1887June 4 – William A. Wheeler, 19th Vice President of the United States (b. 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
  • 1891July 4 – Hannibal Hamlin, 15th Vice President of the United States (b. 1809)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
  • 1899November 21 – Garret Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (b. 1844)source

20th century

  • 1911May 27 – Hubert Humphrey, American politician, Vice President of the United States (1965–1969) (d. 1978)source
  • 1914June 14 – Adlai E. Stevenson I, 23rd Vice President of the United States (b. 1835)source
  • 1920May 16 – Levi P. Morton, 22nd Vice President of the United States (b. 1824)source
  • 1925June 1 – Thomas R. Marshall, 28th Vice President of the United States (b. 1854)source
  • 1929March 4 – Charles Curtis takes office as the first multiracial Vice President of the United States.source
  • 1936February 8 – Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President of the United States (b. 1860)source
  • 1941January 30 – Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States (d. 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
  • 1951April 23 – Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865)source
  • 1956April 30 – Alben W. Barkley, 35th Vice President of the United States (b. 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
  • 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
  • 1967November 7 – John Nance Garner, 32nd Vice President of the United States (b. 1868)source
  • 1973October 10 – Spiro Agnew resigns as Vice President of the United States.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

21st century

  • 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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