Vice Presidents
The vice president is a vital component of the United States government, bridging the executive and legislative branches. As the first in the presidential line of succession, the Vice President ensures continuity of leadership during crises.
The role also includes presiding over the Senate and casting tie-breaking votes, making it crucial in shaping legislative outcomes. Over time, the Vice Presidency has evolved into a position of influence, with vice presidents often serving as key advisors to the president and leaders in national policy and diplomacy.
This Political Jar page lists all that have held the role of Vice President.
John Adams
1st Vice President
Lifespan: Oct 30, 1735 – Jul 04, 1826
VP Term: Apr 21, 1789 – Mar 04, 1797
Political Party:
None (As VP)
Federalist (As President)
Served Under President:
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
2nd Vice President
Lifespan: 13 Apr 1743 – 04 Jul 1826
VP Term: 04 Mar 1797 – 04 Mar 1801
Political Party:
Democratic-Republican
Served Under President:
John Adams
Aaron Burr
3rd Vice President
Lifespan: 06 Feb 1756 – 14 Sep 1836
VP Term: 04 Mar 1801 – 04 Mar 1805
Political Party:
Democratic-Republican
Served Under President:
Thomas Jefferson
George Clinton
4th Vice President
Lifespan: 26 Jul 1739 – 20 Apr 1812
VP Term: 04 Mar 1805 – 20 Apr 1812
Political Party:
Democratic-Republican
Served Under Presidents:
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
Elbridge Gerry
5th Vice President
Lifespan: 17 Jul 1744 – 23 Nov 1814
VP Term: 04 Mar 1813 – 23 Nov 1814
Political Party:
Democratic-Republican
Served Under President:
James Madison
Daniel D. Tompkins
6th Vice President
Lifespan: 21 Jun 1774 – 11 Jun 1825
VP Term: 04 Mar 1817 – 04 Mar 1825
Political Party:
Democratic-Republican
Served Under President:
James Monroe
John C. Calhoun
7thVice President
Lifespan: 18 Mar 1782 – 31 Mar 1850
VP Term: 04 Mar 1825 – 28 Dec 1832
Political Party:
Democratic-Republican
Nullifier
Served Under President:
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
8th Vice President
Lifespan: 5 Dec 1782 – 24 Jul 1862
VP Term: 04 Mar 1833 – 04 Mar 1837
Political Party:
Democratic
Served Under President:
Andrew Jackson
Richard Mentor Johnson
9th Vice President
Lifespan: 17 Oct 1780 – 19 Nov 1850
VP Term: 04 Mar 1837 – 04 Mar 1841
Political Party:
Democratic
Served Under President:
Martin Van Buren
John Tyler
10th Vice President
Lifespan: 29 Mar 1790 – 18 Jan 1862
VP Term: 04 Mar 1841 – 04 Apr 1841
Political Party:
Whig
Served Under President:
William Henry Harrison
George M. Dallas
11th Vice President
Lifespan: 10 Jul 1792 – 31 Dec 1864
VP Term: 04 Mar 1845 – 04 Mar 1849
Political Party:
Democratic
Served Under President:
James K. Polk
Millard Fillmore
12th Vice President
Lifespan: 07 Jan 1800 – 08 Mar 1874
VP Term: 04 Mar 1849 – 09 Jul 1850
Political Party:
Whig
Served Under President:
Zachary Taylor
William R. King
13th Vice President
Lifespan: 07 Apr 1786 – 18 Apr 1853
VP Term: 04 Mar 1853 – 18 Apr 1853
Political Party:
Democratic
Served Under President:
Franklin Pierce
John C. Breckinridge
14th Vice President
Lifespan: 16 Jan 1821 – 17 May 1875
VP Term: 04 Mar 1857 – 04 Mar 1861
Political Party:
Democratic
Served Under President:
James Buchanan
Hannibal Hamlin
15th Vice President
Lifespan: 27 Aug 1809 – 04 Jul 1891
VP Term: 04 Mar 1861 – 04 Mar 1865
Political Party:
Republican
Served Under President:
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
16th Vice President
Lifespan: 29 Dec 1808 – 31 Jul 1875
VP Term: 04 Mar 1865 – 15 Apr 1865
Political Party:
Democratic
Served Under President:
Abraham Lincoln
Schuyler Colfax
17th Vice President
Lifespan: 23 Mar 1823 – 13 Jan 1885
VP Term: 04 Mar 1869 – 04 Mar 1873
Political Party:
Republican
Served Under President:
Ulysses S. Grant
Henry Wilson
18th Vice President
Lifespan: 16 Feb 1812 – 22 Nov 1875
VP Term: 04 Mar 1873 – 22 Nov 1875
Political Party:
Republican
Served Under President:
Ulysses S. Grant
William A. Wheeler
19th Vice President
Lifespan: 30 Jun 1819 – 04 Jun 1887
VP Term: 04 Mar 1877 – 04 Mar 1881
Political Party:
Republican
Served Under President:
Rutherford B. Hayes
Chester A. Arthur
20th Vice President
Lifespan: 05 Oct 1829 – 18 Nov 1886
VP Term: 04 Mar 1881 – 19 Sep 1881
Political Party:
Republican
Served Under President:
James A. Garfield
Thomas A. Hendricks
21st Vice President
Lifespan: 07 Sep 1819 – 25 Nov 1885
VP Term: 04 Mar 1885 – 25 Nov 1885
Political Party:
Democratic
Served Under President:
Grover Cleveland
Levi P. Morton
22nd Vice President
Lifespan: 16 May 1824 – 16 May 1920
VP Term: 04 Mar 1889 – 04 Mar 1893
Political Party:
Republican
Served Under President:
Benjamin Harrison
Adlai E. Stevenson I
23rd Vice President
Lifespan: 23 Oct 1835 – 14 Jun 1914
VP Term: 04 Mar 1893 – 04 Mar 1897
Political Party:
Democratic
Served Under President:
Grover Cleveland
Garret A. Hobart
24th Vice President
Lifespan: 03 Jun 1844 – 21 Nov 1899
VP Term: 04 Mar 1897 – 21 Nov 1899
Political Party:
Republican
Served Under President:
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
25th Vice President
Lifespan: 27 Oct 1858 – 06 Jan 1919
VP Term: 04 Mar 1901 – 14 Sep 1901
Political Party:
Republican
Served Under President:
William McKinley
Charles W. Fairbanks
26th Vice President
Lifespan: 11 May 1852 – 04 Jun 1918
VP Term: 04 Mar 1905 – 04 Mar 1909
Political Party:
Republican
Served Under President:
Theodore Roosevelt
James S. Sherman
27thVice President
Lifespan: 24 Oct 1855 – 30 Oct 1912
VP Term: 04 Mar 1909 – 30 Oct 1912
Political Party:
Republican
Served Under President:
William Howard Taft
Thomas R. Marshall
28th Vice President
Lifespan: 14 Mar 1854 – 01 Jun 1925
VP Term: 04 Mar 1913 – 04 Mar 1921
Political Party:
Democratic
Served Under President:
Woodrow Wilson
Calvin Coolidge
29th Vice President
Lifespan: 04 Jul 1872 – 05 Jan 1933
VP Term: 04 Mar 1921 – 02 Aug 1923
Political Party:
Republican
Served Under President:
Warren G. Harding
Charles G. Dawes
30th Vice President
Lifespan: 27 Aug 1865 – 23 Apr 1951
VP Term: 04 Mar 1925 – 04 Mar 1929
Political Party:
Republican
Served Under President:
Calvin Coolidge
Charles Curtis
31st Vice President
Lifespan: 25 Jan 1860 – 08 Feb 1936
VP Term: 04 Mar 1929 – 04 Mar 1933
Political Party:
Republican
Served Under President:
Herbert Hoover
John Nance Garner
32nd Vice President
Lifespan: 22 Nov 1868 – 07 Nov 1967
VP Term: 04 Mar 1933 – 20 Jan 1941
Political Party:
Democratic
Served Under President:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Henry A. Wallace
33rd Vice President
Lifespan: 07 Oct 1888 – 18 Nov 1965
VP Term: 20 Jan 1941 – 20 Jan 1945
Political Party:
Democratic
Served Under President:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
34th Vice President
Lifespan: 08 May 1884 – 26 Dec 1972
VP Term: 20 Jan 1945 – 12 Apr 1945
Political Party:
Democratic
Served Under President:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Alben W. Barkley
35th Vice President
Lifespan: 24 Nov 1877 – 30 Apr 1956
VP Term: 20 Jan 1949 – 20 Jan 1953
Political Party:
Democratic
Served Under President:
Harry S. Truman
Richard Nixon
36th Vice President
Lifespan: 09 Jan 1913 – 22 Apr 1994
VP Term: 20 Jan 1953 – 20 Jan 1961
Political Party:
Republican
Served Under President:
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lyndon B. Johnson
37th Vice President
Lifespan: 27 Aug 1908 – 22 Jan 1973
VP Term: 20 Jan 1961 – 22 Nov 1963
Political Party:
Democratic
Served Under President:
John F. Kennedy
Hubert Humphrey
38th Vice President
Lifespan: 27 May 1911 – 13 Jan 1978
VP Term: 20 Jan 1965 – 20 Jan 1969
Political Party:
Democratic
Served Under President:
Lyndon B. Johnson
Spiro T. Agnew
39th Vice President
Lifespan: 09 Nov 1918 – 17 Sep 1996
VP Term: 20 Jan 1969 – 10 Oct 1973
Political Party:
Republican
Served Under President:
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
40th Vice President
Lifespan: 14 Jul 1913 – 26 Dec 2006
VP Term: 06 Dec 1973 – 09 Aug 1974
Political Party:
Republican
Served Under President:
Richard Nixon
Nelson Rockefeller
41st Vice President
Lifespan: 08 Jul 1908 – 26 Jan 1979
VP Term: 19 Dec 1974 – 20 Jan 1977
Political Party:
Republican
Served Under President:
Gerald Ford
Walter Mondale
42nd Vice President
Lifespan: 05 Jan 1928 – 19 Apr 2021
VP Term: 20 Jan 1977 – 20 Jan 1981
Political Party:
Democratic
Served Under President:
Jimmy Carter
George H. W. Bush
43rd Vice President
Lifespan: 12 Jun 1924 – 30 Nov 2018
VP Term: 20 Jan 1981 – 20 Jan 1989
Political Party:
Republican
Served Under President:
Ronald Reagan
Dan Quayle
44th Vice President
Lifespan: 04 Feb 1947 – Present
VP Term: 20 Jan 1989 – 20 Jan 1993
Political Party:
Republican
Served Under President:
George H. W. Bush
Al Gore
45th Vice President
Lifespan: 31 Mar 1948 – Present
VP Term: 20 Jan 1993 – 20 Jan 2001
Political Party:
Democratic
Served Under President:
Bill Clinton
Dick Cheney
46th Vice President
Lifespan: 30 Jan 1941 – Present
VP Term: 20 Jan 2001 – 20 Jan 2009
Political Party:
Republican
Served Under President:
George W. Bush
Joe Biden
47th Vice President
Lifespan: 20 Nov 1942 – Present
VP Term: 20 Jan 2009 – 20 Jan 2017
Political Party:
Democratic
Served Under President:
Barack Obama
Mike Pence
48th Vice President
Lifespan: 07 Jun 1959 – Present
VP Term: 20 Jan 2017 – 20 Jan 2021
Political Party:
Republican
Served Under President:
Donald Trump
Kamala Harris
49th Vice President
Lifespan: 20 Oct 1964 – Present
VP Term: 20 Jan 2021 – 20 Jan 2025
Political Party:
Democratic
Served Under President:
Joe Biden
