This is a list of Vice Presidents of the United States by other offices (either elected or appointive) held, either before or after service as Vice President.
In addition, both George H. W. Bush and Dick Cheney served as Acting Presidents for brief periods under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, respectively while they were undergoing routine medical procedures.
John Adams (as Vice President) and Thomas Jefferson both served in the Cabinet of George Washington.
Theodore Roosevelt (from 1897–1898) served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President McKinley. John C. Breckinridge was Secretary of War in the Confederate States of America Vice President | Office and jurisdiction | Year | Notes | John Adams | President of the United States | 1800 | Lost re-election to Thomas Jefferson |
Thomas Jefferson | President of the United States | 1796 | Lost to John Adams. Won in 1800 and in 1804 |
Aaron Burr | Governor of New York | 1804 | Lost to Morgan Lewis |
Elbridge Gerry | Governor of Massachusetts | 1788 1800 1801 1802 1803 1812 | Lost to John Hancock in 1788 and Caleb Strong in 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1812. Won in 1810 and 1811 |
Daniel D. Tompkins | Governor of New York | 1820 | Lost to DeWitt Clinton. Won in 1807, 1810, 1813, and 1816. |
Martin Van Buren | President of the United States | 1840 1848 | Lost re-election to William Henry Harrison in 1840. Ran on Free Soil Ticket 1848; came in third place behind Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass |
Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1844 | Placed in distant third behind James K. Polk and Lewis Cass |
Richard Mentor Johnson | United States Senator from Kentucky | 1842 | Lost to John J. Crittenden |
Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1844 | Lost to James K. Polk |
George M. Dallas | Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1848 | Lost to Lewis Cass |
Millard Fillmore | United States Senator from New York | 1843 | Lost to Silas Wright |
Governor of New York | 1844 | Lost to Silas Wright |
Whig nomination for 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 Know-Nothing Ticket 1856; came in third place behind James Buchanan and John C. Fremont |
John C. Breckinridge | President of the United States | 1860 | Ran as Southern Democrat 1860; lost to Abraham Lincoln |
Andrew Johnson | Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1860 1868 | Lost to Stephen A. Douglas in 1860 and Horatio Seymour in 1868 |
United States Senator from Tennessee | 1869 | Lost to Henry Cooper |
United States Representative | 1872 | Came in third behind Horace Maynard and Benjamin F. Cheatham |
Henry Wilson | Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States | 1868 | Lost to Schuyler Colfax. Later won in 1872. |
William A. Wheeler | Republican nomination for President of the United States | 1876 | Lost to Rutherford B. Hayes. Later made Hayes' running mate and elected Vice President |
Thomas A. Hendricks | Governor of Indiana | 1860 1868 | Lost to Henry Smith Lane in 1860 and Conrad Baker in 1868. Later elected 1872 |
Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1876, 1880, 1884 | Lost to Samuel J. Tilden in 1876, Winfield Scott Hancock in 1880 and Grover Cleveland in 1884. Later made Tilden's running mate in 1876 and Cleveland's running mate in 1884 |
Vice President of the United States | 1876 | Lost to William A. Wheeler. Later elected in 1884 |
Levi P. Morton | Republican nomination for President of the United States | 1896 | Lost to William McKinley |
Adlai Stevenson | Vice President of the United States | 1900 | Lost to Theodore Roosevelt |
Governor of Illinois | 1908 | Lost to Charles S. Deneen |
Garret Hobart | United States Senator from New Jersey | 1883 | Lost to John R. McPherson. At the time Senators were chosen by the state legislature. |
Theodore Roosevelt | Mayor of New York City | 1886 | Placed in distant third behind Abram S. Hewitt and Henry George |
Republican nomination for President of the United States | 1912 | Lost to William Howard Taft |
President of the United States | 1912 | Placed distant second to Woodrow Wilson. Candidate of the Progressive Party. Only third-party candidate to place second in an election. |
Charles W. Fairbanks | United States Senator from Indiana | 1893 | Lost to David Turpie. At the time Senators were chosen by the state legislature. Later elected in 1897. |
Republican nomination for President of the United States | 1908, 1916 | Lost to William Howard Taft in 1908 and Charles Evans Hughes in 1916. Later made Hughes's running mate. |
Vice President of the United States | 1916 | Lost to Thomas R. Marshall |
Thomas R. Marshall | Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1912 | Lost to Woodrow Wilson. Later made Wilson's running mate and elected Vice President |
Charles G. Dawes | United States Senator from Illinois | 1902 | Lost to Albert J. Hopkins. At the time Senators were chosen by the state legislature |
Charles Curtis | Republican nomination for President of the United States | 1928 | Lost to Herbert Hoover. Later chosen as Hoover's running mate and elected Vice President |
John Nance Garner | Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1932, 1940 | Lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt both times. In 1932, he was made Roosevelt's running mate and elected Vice President. |
Henry A. Wallace | President of the United States | 1948 | Ran on the Progressive Party ticket 1948. Came in fourth behind Harry S. Truman, Thomas E. Dewey, and Strom Thurmond. |
Alben W. Barkley | Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1952 | Lost to Adlai Stevenson II |
Richard Nixon | President of the United States | 1960 | Lost to John F. Kennedy. Won in 1968 and in 1972 |
Governor of California | 1962 | Lost to Pat Brown by nearly 300,000 votes; in his concession speech, he lashed out at the media, saying "...you don't have Nixon to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference." |
Lyndon B. Johnson | United States Senator from Texas | 1941 | Lost to W. Lee O'Daniel. Later elected Senator in 1948 |
Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1960 | Placed second to John F. Kennedy after failing to contest any state primaries. Later chosen as Kennedy's running mate and elected Vice President. He assumed the presidency upon Kennedy's assassination in 1963. He subsequently won the Democratic nomination (and the presidency) in 1964. |
Hubert H. Humphrey | Democratic nomination for Vice President of the United States | 1956 | Lost to Estes Kefauver |
Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1960 1972 | Lost to John F. Kennedy in 1960 and George McGovern in 1972. Later won in 1968 |
President of the United States | 1968 | Lost to Richard Nixon. Elected Senator from Minnesota in 1970 and 1976 |
Spiro Agnew | Maryland Circuit Court Judge | 1960 |
Gerald Ford | President of the United States | 1976 | Lost to Jimmy Carter |
Nelson Rockefeller | Republican nomination for President of the United States | 1960, 1964, 1968 | Lost to Richard Nixon in 1960 and 1968 and Barry Goldwater in 1964 |
Walter Mondale | President of the United States | 1984 | Lost to Ronald Reagan in a landslide: Electoral Vote; 525–13 |
United States Senator from Minnesota | 2002 | Replaced Senator Paul Wellstone on the ballot after his death in a plane crash. Lost to Norm Coleman |
George H. W. Bush | United States Senator from Texas | 1964 1970 | Lost to Ralph Yarborough in 1964 and Lloyd Bentsen in 1970 |
Republican nomination for President of the United States | 1980 | Lost to Ronald Reagan. Later chosen as Reagan's running mate and elected Vice President. Won presidency in 1988 but lost re-election in 1992 to Bill Clinton |
President of the United States | 1992 | Lost re-election to Bill Clinton |
Dan Quayle | Republican nomination for President of the United States | 2000 | Lost to George W. Bush |
Albert A. Gore | Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1988 | Lost to Michael Dukakis. Later won Democratic nomination in 2000. |
President of the United States | 2000 | Lost to George W. Bush |
Joe Biden | Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1988, 2008 | Lost to Michael Dukakis in 1988 and Barack Obama in 2008. Later chosen as Obama's running mate and elected Vice President |
Mike Pence | United States Representative | 1988 1990 | Lost to Philip Sharp both times. Later elected in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010. |
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