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: 30 Oct 1735 – 04 Jul 1826
VP Term: 21 Apr 1789 – 04 Mar 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

JD Vance
50th Vice President

Lifespan: 02 Aug 1984 – Present
VP Term: 20 Jan 2025 – Present

Political Party:
Republican

Served Under President:
Donald Trump

Vice Presidents

John Adams1st Vice PresidentLifespan: 30 Oct 1735 – 04 Jul 1826VP Term: 21 Apr 1789 – 04 Mar 1797 Political Party: None (As VP)Federalist (As President)Served Under President: George Washington

Thomas Jefferson2nd Vice President Lifespan: 13 Apr 1743 – 04 Jul 1826VP Term: 04 Mar 1797 – 04 Mar 1801Political Party:Democratic-RepublicanServed Under President:John Adams

Aaron Burr3rd Vice President Lifespan: 06 Feb 1756 – 14 Sep 1836VP Term: 04 Mar 1801 – 04 Mar 1805Political Party:Democratic-RepublicanServed Under President:Thomas Jefferson

George Clinton4th Vice President Lifespan: 26 Jul 1739 – 20 Apr 1812VP Term: 04 Mar 1805 – 20 Apr 1812Political Party:Democratic-RepublicanServed Under Presidents:Thomas JeffersonJames Madison

Elbridge Gerry5th Vice President Lifespan: 17 Jul 1744 – 23 Nov 1814VP Term: 04 Mar 1813 – 23 Nov 1814Political Party:Democratic-RepublicanServed Under President:James Madison

Daniel D. Tompkins6th Vice President Lifespan: 21 Jun 1774 – 11 Jun 1825VP Term: 04 Mar 1817 – 04 Mar 1825Political Party:Democratic-RepublicanServed Under President:James Monroe

John C. Calhoun7thVice President Lifespan: 18 Mar 1782 – 31 Mar 1850VP Term: 04 Mar 1825 – 28 Dec 1832Political Party:Democratic-RepublicanNullifierServed Under President:John Quincy AdamsAndrew Jackson

Martin Van Buren8th Vice President Lifespan: 5 Dec 1782 – 24 Jul 1862VP Term: 04 Mar 1833 – 04 Mar 1837Political Party:DemocraticServed Under President:Andrew Jackson

Richard Mentor Johnson9th Vice President Lifespan: 17 Oct 1780 – 19 Nov 1850VP Term: 04 Mar 1837 – 04 Mar 1841Political Party:DemocraticServed Under President:Martin Van Buren

John Tyler10th Vice President Lifespan: 29 Mar 1790 – 18 Jan 1862VP Term: 04 Mar 1841 – 04 Apr 1841Political Party:WhigServed Under President:William Henry Harrison

George M. Dallas11th Vice President Lifespan: 10 Jul 1792 – 31 Dec 1864VP Term: 04 Mar 1845 – 04 Mar 1849Political Party:DemocraticServed Under President:James K. Polk

Millard Fillmore12th Vice President Lifespan: 07 Jan 1800 – 08 Mar 1874VP Term: 04 Mar 1849 – 09 Jul 1850Political Party:WhigServed Under President:Zachary Taylor

William R. King13th Vice President Lifespan: 07 Apr 1786 – 18 Apr 1853VP Term: 04 Mar 1853 – 18 Apr 1853Political Party:DemocraticServed Under President:Franklin Pierce

John C. Breckinridge14th Vice President Lifespan: 16 Jan 1821 – 17 May 1875VP Term: 04 Mar 1857 – 04 Mar 1861Political Party:DemocraticServed Under President:James Buchanan

Hannibal Hamlin15th Vice President Lifespan: 27 Aug 1809 – 04 Jul 1891 VP Term: 04 Mar 1861 – 04 Mar 1865Political Party:RepublicanServed Under President:Abraham Lincoln

Andrew Johnson16th Vice President Lifespan: 29 Dec 1808 – 31 Jul 1875VP Term: 04 Mar 1865 – 15 Apr 1865Political Party:DemocraticServed Under President:Abraham Lincoln

Schuyler Colfax17th Vice President Lifespan: 23 Mar 1823 – 13 Jan 1885VP Term: 04 Mar 1869 – 04 Mar 1873Political Party:RepublicanServed Under President:Ulysses S. Grant

Henry Wilson18th Vice President Lifespan: 16 Feb 1812 – 22 Nov 1875VP Term: 04 Mar 1873 – 22 Nov 1875Political Party:RepublicanServed Under President:Ulysses S. Grant

William A. Wheeler19th Vice President Lifespan: 30 Jun 1819 – 04 Jun 1887VP Term: 04 Mar 1877 – 04 Mar 1881Political Party:RepublicanServed Under President:Rutherford B. Hayes

Chester A. Arthur20th Vice President Lifespan: 05 Oct 1829 – 18 Nov 1886VP Term: 04 Mar 1881 – 19 Sep 1881Political Party:RepublicanServed Under President:James A. Garfield

Thomas A. Hendricks21st Vice President Lifespan: 07 Sep 1819 – 25 Nov 1885VP Term: 04 Mar 1885 – 25 Nov 1885Political Party:DemocraticServed Under President:Grover Cleveland

Levi P. Morton22nd Vice President Lifespan: 16 May 1824 – 16 May 1920VP Term: 04 Mar 1889 – 04 Mar 1893Political Party:RepublicanServed Under President:Benjamin Harrison

Adlai E. Stevenson I23rd Vice President Lifespan: 23 Oct 1835 – 14 Jun 1914VP Term: 04 Mar 1893 – 04 Mar 1897Political Party:DemocraticServed Under President:Grover Cleveland

Garret A. Hobart24th Vice President Lifespan: 03 Jun 1844 – 21 Nov 1899VP Term: 04 Mar 1897 – 21 Nov 1899Political Party:RepublicanServed Under President:William McKinley

Theodore Roosevelt25th Vice President Lifespan: 27 Oct 1858 – 06 Jan 1919VP Term: 04 Mar 1901 – 14 Sep 1901Political Party:RepublicanServed Under President:William McKinley

Charles W. Fairbanks26th Vice President Lifespan: 11 May 1852 – 04 Jun 1918VP Term: 04 Mar 1905 – 04 Mar 1909Political Party:RepublicanServed Under President:Theodore Roosevelt

James S. Sherman27thVice President Lifespan: 24 Oct 1855 – 30 Oct 1912VP Term: 04 Mar 1909 – 30 Oct 1912Political Party:RepublicanServed Under President:William Howard Taft

Thomas R. Marshall28th Vice President Lifespan: 14 Mar 1854 – 01 Jun 1925VP Term: 04 Mar 1913 – 04 Mar 1921Political Party:DemocraticServed Under President:Woodrow Wilson

Calvin Coolidge29th Vice President Lifespan: 04 Jul 1872 – 05 Jan 1933VP Term: 04 Mar 1921 – 02 Aug 1923Political Party:RepublicanServed Under President:Warren G. Harding

Charles G. Dawes30th Vice President Lifespan: 27 Aug 1865 – 23 Apr 1951VP Term: 04 Mar 1925 – 04 Mar 1929Political Party:RepublicanServed Under President:Calvin Coolidge

Charles Curtis31st Vice President Lifespan: 25 Jan 1860 – 08 Feb 1936VP Term: 04 Mar 1929 – 04 Mar 1933Political Party:RepublicanServed Under President:Herbert Hoover

John Nance Garner32nd Vice President Lifespan: 22 Nov 1868 – 07 Nov 1967VP Term: 04 Mar 1933 – 20 Jan 1941Political Party:DemocraticServed Under President:Franklin D. Roosevelt

Henry A. Wallace33rd Vice President Lifespan: 07 Oct 1888 – 18 Nov 1965VP Term: 20 Jan 1941 – 20 Jan 1945Political Party:DemocraticServed Under President:Franklin D. Roosevelt

Harry S. Truman34th Vice President Lifespan: 08 May 1884 – 26 Dec 1972VP Term: 20 Jan 1945 – 12 Apr 1945Political Party:DemocraticServed Under President:Franklin D. Roosevelt

Alben W. Barkley35th Vice President Lifespan: 24 Nov 1877 – 30 Apr 1956VP Term: 20 Jan 1949 – 20 Jan 1953Political Party:DemocraticServed Under President:Harry S. Truman

Richard Nixon36th Vice President Lifespan: 09 Jan 1913 – 22 Apr 1994VP Term: 20 Jan 1953 – 20 Jan 1961Political Party:RepublicanServed Under President:Dwight D. Eisenhower

Lyndon B. Johnson37th Vice President Lifespan: 27 Aug 1908 – 22 Jan 1973VP Term: 20 Jan 1961 – 22 Nov 1963Political Party:DemocraticServed Under President:John F. Kennedy

Hubert Humphrey38th Vice President Lifespan: 27 May 1911 – 13 Jan 1978VP Term: 20 Jan 1965 – 20 Jan 1969Political Party:DemocraticServed Under President:Lyndon B. Johnson

Spiro T. Agnew39th Vice President Lifespan: 09 Nov 1918 – 17 Sep 1996VP Term: 20 Jan 1969 – 10 Oct 1973Political Party:RepublicanServed Under President:Richard Nixon

Gerald Ford40th Vice President Lifespan: 14 Jul 1913 – 26 Dec 2006VP Term: 06 Dec 1973 – 09 Aug 1974Political Party:RepublicanServed Under President:Richard Nixon

Nelson Rockefeller41st Vice President Lifespan: 08 Jul 1908 – 26 Jan 1979VP Term: 19 Dec 1974 – 20 Jan 1977Political Party:RepublicanServed Under President:Gerald Ford

Walter Mondale42nd Vice President Lifespan: 05 Jan 1928 – 19 Apr 2021VP Term: 20 Jan 1977 – 20 Jan 1981Political Party:DemocraticServed Under President:Jimmy Carter

George H. W. Bush43rd Vice President Lifespan: 12 Jun 1924 – 30 Nov 2018VP Term: 20 Jan 1981 – 20 Jan 1989Political Party:RepublicanServed Under President:Ronald Reagan

Dan Quayle44th Vice President Lifespan: 04 Feb 1947 – PresentVP Term: 20 Jan 1989 – 20 Jan 1993Political Party:RepublicanServed Under President:George H. W. Bush

Al Gore45th Vice President Lifespan: 31 Mar 1948 – PresentVP Term: 20 Jan 1993 – 20 Jan 2001Political Party:DemocraticServed Under President:Bill Clinton

Dick Cheney46th Vice President Lifespan: 30 Jan 1941 – PresentVP Term: 20 Jan 2001 – 20 Jan 2009Political Party:RepublicanServed Under President:George W. Bush

Joe Biden47th Vice President Lifespan: 20 Nov 1942 – PresentVP Term: 20 Jan 2009 – 20 Jan 2017Political Party:DemocraticServed Under President:Barack Obama

Mike Pence48th Vice President Lifespan: 07 Jun 1959 – PresentVP Term: 20 Jan 2017 – 20 Jan 2021Political Party:RepublicanServed Under President:Donald Trump

Kamala Harris49th Vice President Lifespan: 20 Oct 1964 – PresentVP Term: 20 Jan 2021 – 20 Jan 2025Political Party:DemocraticServed Under President:Joe Biden

JD Vance50th Vice President Lifespan: 02 Aug 1984 – PresentVP Term: 20 Jan 2025 – PresentPolitical Party:RepublicanServed Under President:Donald Trump