List of US Vice Presidents
The vice president of the United States is the second-highest officer in the executive branch 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 indirectly elected together with the president to a four-year term of office by the people of the United States through the Electoral College.
The vice president assumes presidency if the president dies, resigns, or is impeached and removed from office.
Nine vice presidents have ascended to the presidency in this way:
eight (John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S. Truman, and Lyndon B. Johnson) through the president’s death
and one (Gerald Ford) through the president’s resignation.
The vice president 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 exercised this latter power to varying extents over the years.
List of US vice presidents
No, US Vice President, In office (Party) – US President
50 J.D. Vance – 2025 – In Office (Republican) – Donald Trump
49 Kamila Harris 2020 – 2024 (Democrat) – Joe Biden
48 Mike Pence 2017 – 2020 In office (Republican) – Donald Trump
47 Joe Biden 2009 – 2017 (Democrat) – Barack Obama
46 Dick Cheney 2001 – 2009 (Republican) – George W. Bush
45 Al Gore 1993 – 2001 (Democratic) – Bill Clinton
44 Dan Quayle 1989 – 1993 (Republican) – George H. W. Bush
43 George H. W. Bush 1981 – 1989 (Republican) – Ronald Reagan
42 Walter Mondale 1977 – 1981 (Democratic) – Jimmy Carter
41 Nelson Rockefeller 1974 – 1977 (Republican) – Gerald Ford
vacant 1974 – 12/1974 ~ Gerald Ford
40 Gerald Ford 1973 – 1974 (Republican) – Richard Nixon
vacant 10/1973 – 12/1973 ~ Richard Nixon
39 – Spiro Agnew 1969 – 1973 (Republican) – Richard Nixon
38 Hubert Humphrey 1965 – 1969 (Democratic) – Lyndon B. Johnson
vacant 11/1963 – 1/1965 ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
37 Lyndon B. Johnson 1961 – 1963 (Democratic) – John F. Kennedy
36 Richard Nixon 1953 – 1961 (Republican) – Dwight D. Eisenhower
35 Alben Barkley 1949 – 1953 (Democratic) – Harry S. Truman
vacant 4/1945 – 1/1949 ~ Harry S. Truman
34 Harry S. Truman 1945 (Democratic) – Franklin D. Roosevelt
33 Henry A. Wallace 1941 – 1945 (Democratic) – Franklin D. Roosevelt
32 John Nance Garner 1933 – 1941 (Democratic) – Franklin D. Roosevelt
31 Charles Curtis 1929 – 1933 (Republican) – Herbert Hoover
30 Charles G. Dawes 1925 – 1929 (Republican) – Calvin Coolidge
vacant 8/1923 – 3/1925 ~ Calvin Coolidge
29 Calvin Coolidge 1921 – 1923 (Republican) – Warren G. Harding
28 Thomas R. Marshall 1913 – 1921 (Democratic) – Woodrow Wilson
vacant 10/1912 – 3/1913 ~ William Howard Taft
27 James S. Sherman 1909 – 1912 (Republican) – William Howard Taft
26 Charles W. Fairbanks 1905 – 1909 (Republican) – Theodore Roosevelt
vacant 9/1901 – 3/1905 ~ Theodore Roosevelt
25 Theodore Roosevelt 1901 (Republican) = William McKinley
vacant 11/1899 – 3/1901 ~ William McKinley
24 Garret Hobart 1897 – 1999 (Republican) – William McKinley
23 Adlai E. Stevenson 1889 – 1897 (Democratic) – Grover Cleveland
22 Levi P. Morton 1885 – 1889 (Republican) – Benjamin Harrison
vacant 11/1885 – 3/1889 ~ Grover Cleveland
21 Thomas A. Hendricks 1885 (Democratic) – Grover Cleveland
vacant 9/1881 – 3/1885 (Democratic) – Chester Alan Arthur
20 Chester A. Arthur 1881 (Republican) James A. Garfield
19 William A. Wheeler 1877 – 1881 (Republican) – Rutherford B. Hayes
vacant 11/1875 – 3/1877 ~ Ulysses S. Grant
18 Henry Wilson 1873 – 1875 (Republican) – Ulysses S. Grant
17 Schuyler Colfax 1869 – 1873 (Republican) – Ulysses S. Grant
vacant 4/1865 – 3/1869 ~ Andrew Johnson
16 Andrew Johnson 1865 (National Union) – Abraham Lincoln
15 Hannibal Hamlin 1861 – 1865 (Republican) – Abraham Lincoln
14 John C. Beckinridge 1857 – 1861 (Democratic) – James Buchanan
vacant 4/1853 – 3/1857 ~ Franklin Pierce
13 William R. King 1853 (Democratic) – Franklin Pierce
vacant 7/1850 – 3/1853 ~ Millard Fillmore
12 Millard Fillmore 1849 – 1850 (Whig) – Zachary Taylor
11 George M. Dallas 1845 – 1849 (Democratic) – James Knock Polk
vacant 4/1841 – 3/1845 ~ John Tyler
10 John Tyler 1841 (Whig) – William H. Harrison
9 Richard Mentor Johnson 1837 – 1841 (Democratic) – Martin van Buren
8 Martin van Buren 1833 – 37 (Democratic) – Andrew Jackson
vacant 12/1832 – 3/1833 ~ Andrew Jackson
7 John C. Calhoun 1825 – 1832 (Democratic-Republican|Nullifier) – Adams / Jackson
6 Daniel D. Tompkins 1817 – 1825 (Democratic-Republican) – James Monroe
vacant 11/1814 – 3/1817 ~ James Madison
5 Elbridge Gerry 1813 – 1814 (Democratic-Republican) – James Madison
vacant 4/1812 – 3/1813 ~ James Madison
4 George Clinton 1809 – 1812 (Democratic-Republican) – Jefferson / Madison
3 Aaron Burr 1801 – 1805 (Democratic-Republican) – Thomas Jefferson
2 Thomas Jefferson 1797 – 1801 (Democratic-Republican) – John Adams
1 John Adams 1789 – 1797 (Pro-Administration (1788/9), Federalist 1792) – George Washington
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