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The Vice Presidents are listed in chronological order.

For facts about and links to any Vice President, click on the name:

John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Aaron Burr
George Clinton
Elbridge Gerry
Daniel D. Tompkins
John C. Calhoun
Martin Van Buren
Richard Mentor Johnson
John Tyler
George Mifflin Dallas
Millard Fillmore
William Rufus King
John C. Breckinridge
Hannibal Hamlin
Andrew Johnson
Schuyler Colfax
Henry Wilson
William Wheeler
Chester Alan Arthur
Thomas Hendricks
Levi Parsons Morton
Adlai E. Stevenson
Garret A. Hobart
Theodore Roosevelt
Charles W. Fairbanks
James Sherman
Thomas Marshall
Calvin Coolidge
Charles G. Dawes
Charles Curtis
John Nance Garner
Henry A. Wallace
Harry S. Truman
Alben W. Barkley
Richard M. Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
Hubert H. Humphrey
Spiro T. Agnew
Gerald R. Ford
Nelson Rockefeller
Walter Mondale
George Bush
Dan Quayle
Al Gore
Dick Cheney


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    The Vice Presidents
    of the United States


John Adams  
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson  
Thomas Jefferson
Aaron Burr  
Aaron Burr

John Adams    Served under George Washington from 1789-1797

The First Vice President

Born: October 30, 1735
Died: July 4, 1826
State: Massachusetts
Party: Federalist

--Graduated from Harvard College (1755).
--Admitted to the Massachusetts bar (1758).
--Elected to the Massachusetts legislature (1768).
--Delegate to the Continental Congress (1774-78).
--Although he was known as a champion of the cause of American independence, he defended the British soldiers accused of the Boston Massacre (1775).
--Signer--and one of the drafters--of The Declaration of Independence (1776).
--Commissioner to France (1778).
--Minister to the Netherlands (1780).
--Minister to England (1785-88).
--Vice President of the United States (1789-97).
--He was not Washington's "Running Mate," although they were political allies.
--As first presiding officer of the Senate, he signed the Bill of Rights (1789).
--President of the United States (1797-1801).
--The first of five Vice Presidents to be elected to the Presidency on his own.
--One of three Vice Presidents, including Jefferson and Hamlin, to die on the Fourth of July.
--His son was a President, his grandson an Ambassador and Presidential candidate, and two of his great-grandsons became noteworthy historians.
Adams Links:

*White House Page.
*C-SPAN Page.
*Internet Public Library Page.
*Senate Biography.
*Grolier's Page.
*Continental Congress.
*Continental Congress Participants.
*Atlas of Independence.
*Thoughts on Government.
*The Boston Massacre.
*Signed, Novanglus.
*Political Theorist.
*Adams and Jefferson.
*The 2nd of July.
*The Declaration of Independence.
*Signer of the Declaration of Independence.
*An American Revolutionary.
*American Revolution Timeline.
*The 1783 Treaty of Paris.
*First Minister to the Netherlands.
*First Minister to Great Britain.
*1789 Presidential Election.
*His Royal Rotundy.
*The Bill of Rights.
*1792 Presidential Election.
*A History of the Vice Presidency.
*1796 Presidential Election.
*Virtuous and Independent.
*The XYZ Affair.
*Adams on XYZ.
*Alien and Sedition Acts.
*Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.
*Abigail's House.
*Campaign 1800.
*1800 Presidential Election.
*The Midnight Appointments.
*Peaceful Transfer of Power.
*Adams Dies on the Fourth.
*A Contemporry Obituary.
*Gravesite.
*The Federalist Party.
*On McCullough's Biography.
*The Adams Papers.
*Portrait.
*Postage Stamps.
*Adams National Historical Site.
*The Adams Family.
*Abigail Adams Page.
*Samuel Adams Page.
*John Quincy Adams Page.
*Charles Francis Adams Page.
*Henry Adams Page.
*Brooks Adams Page.
*President George Washington.

Thomas Jefferson    Served under John Adams from 1797-1801

The Second Vice President

Born: April 13, 1743
Died: July 4, 1826
State: Virginia
Party: Democratic-Republican

--Graduated from the College of William And Mary (1762).
--Admitted to the Virginia bar (1767).
--Virginia House of Burgesses (1769-74).
--Signer--and one of the drafters--of The Declaration of Independence (1776).
--Governor of Virginia (1779-81).
--Governor Jefferson was almost captured by British toops in 1781.
--Member of the Continental Congress (1783-1784).
--Minister to France (1785-89).
--Secretary of State (1790-93).
--Received Electoral Votes for President in 1792.
--Vice President of the United States (1797-1801).
--As Vice President, he was a political opponent of President John Adams.
--President of the United States (1801-09).
--His election as President was decided by the House of Representatives, because he and his running mate, Aaron Burr, received the same number of Electoral Votes.
--The second of five Vice Presidents to be elected to the Presidency on his own.
--Louisiana Purchase approved (1803).
--Founded of the University of Virginia in 1816 and served as first rector until 1822.
--Retired to his plantation, Monticello.
--One of three Vice Presidents, including Adams and Hamlin, to die on the Fourth of July.
Jefferson Links:

*White House Page.
*C-SPAN Page.
*Internet Public Library Page.
*Senate Biography.
*Grolier's Page.
*Sage of Monticello.
*A Jefferson Timeline.
*Ken Burns on Jefferson.
*Slave Owner.
*Colonel Jefferson.
*Adams and Jefferson.
*The Declaration of Independence.
*Signer of the Declaration of Independence.
*Account of a Declaration.
*American Revolution Timeline.
*The Governors of Virginia.
*Minister to France, 1785.
*The First Secretary of State.
*1792 Presidential Election.
*1796 Presidential Election.
*Alien and Sedition Acts.
*Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.
*Campaign 1800.
*1800 Presidential Election.
*1804 Presidential Election.
*Philosopher President.
*The Louisiana Purchase.
*Louisiana Purchase Treaties.
*A Map of the Louisiana Purchase.
*Jefferson's Orders to Lewis.
*Lewis and Clark.
*Ken Burns on Lewis and Clark.
*Service.
*Jefferson Dies on the Fourth.
*A Contemporry Obituary.
*Gravesite.
*The Democratic-Republican Party.
*The Democrat Party.
*The Jefferson Bible.
*The Jefferson Papers.
*Postage Stamps.
*Political Cartoon.
*Jefferson Memorial.
*Montecello.
*Poplar Forest.
*Mount Rushmore.
*The University of Virginia.
*Sally Hemmings.
*President John Adams.

Aaron Burr    Served under Thomas Jefferson from 1801-1805

The Third Vice President

Born: February 6, 1756
Died: September 14, 1836
State: New York (b. New Jersey)
Party: Democratic-Republican

--Grandson of Jonathan Edwards, noted Colonial clergyman.
--His father, Aaron Burr, Sr., was a founder of Princeton University.
--Graduated from Princeton, then called the College of New Jersey (1772).
--Colonel in Continental Army, including service with George Washington at Valley Forge (1775-79).
--Admitted to New York State bar (1782).
--Served several terms in the New York State Assembly in the 1780's and 1790's.
--Attorney General of New York (1789-90).
--Senator from New York (1791-97).
--Received Electoral Votes for President in 1792 and 1796.
--Vice President of the United States (1801-05).
--As Vice President, he was a political opponent of President Thomas Jefferson.
--The Twelfth Amendment was passed in 1804 as a result of the contest between Burr and Jefferson for the Presidency .
--Unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New York (1804).
--Killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel while serving as Vice President (1804).
--Presided over the Senate's impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase (1805).
--Tried for and acquitted of treason, over events in the Mississipi Territory (1807).
--His political career over, he became a successful lawyer.
Burr Links:

*Senate Biography.
*Grolier's Page.
*A Scandalous Life.
*From The Princeton Companion.
*Served at Valley Forge.
*Early Senators, Including Burr.
*Tammany.
*1796 Presidential Election.
*Campaign 1800.
*1800 Presidential Election.
*Rivalries.
*Before the 12th Amendment.
*The 12th Amendment.
*Duel.
*Eyewitness to the Duel.
*PBS on the Duel.
*Burr Conspiracy.
*Burr's Southwest Empire.
*The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr.
*A Trial in Virginia.
*Trouble.
*A Contemporry Obituary.
*Gravesite.
*Gore Vidal's Burr.
*Bust of Burr.
*The Burr Papers.
*The Life and Death of Alexander Hamilton.
*Jonathan Edwards Biography.
*Aaron Burr, Sr., Page.
*General James Wilkinson Page.
*Samuel Chase Page.
*John Marshall Page.
*President Thomas Jefferson.

To see the fact sheet and links for a Vice President, click on his last name:
Introduction   Adams, Jefferson, Burr,   Clinton, Gerry, Tompkins,   Calhoun, Van Buren, RM Johnson,   Tyler, Dallas, Fillmore,   King, Breckenridge, Hamlin,   A Johnson, Colfax, Wilson,   Wheeler, Arthur, Hendricks,   Morton, Stevenson, Hobart,   Roosevelt, Fairbanks, Sherman   Marshall, Coolidge, Dawes,   Curtis, Garner, Wallace,   Truman, Barkley, Nixon   LB Johnson, Humphrey, Agnew,   Ford, Rockefeller, Mondale,   Bush, Quayle, Gore, Cheney.   2000 Nominees.