The Vice Presidents are listed in chronological order.
For facts about and links to any Vice President,
click on the name:
Daniel D. Tompkins
John C. Calhoun
Martin Van Buren
Richard Mentor Johnson
George Mifflin Dallas
William Rufus King
John C. Breckinridge
Chester Alan Arthur
Levi Parsons Morton
Adlai E. Stevenson
Garret A. Hobart
Charles W. Fairbanks
Charles G. Dawes
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
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Served under Abraham Lincoln 1865-1865
The Sixteenth Vice President
Born: December 29, 1808
Died: July 31, 1875
State: Tennessee (b. North Carolina)
Party: Republican (originally Democrat)
--Apprenticed to a tailor (1822).
--Opened tailor shop (1824).
--Alderman of Greeneville, TN (1828-29).
--Mayor of Greeneville (1830-33).
--Tennessee House of Representatives (1835-37 and 1839-41).
--U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee (1843-53).
--Governor of Tennessee (1853-1857).
--U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1857-62).
--Union Military Governor of the Confederate State of Tennessee during the Civil War (1862-65).
--Nominated for Vice President, with Lincoln, on the National Union Party ticket, as the Republicans called themselves in the election of 1864.
--Vice President of the United States (1865).
--President of the United States (1865-69).
--The third Vice President to be elevated to the Presidency because of the death of a President.
--A Southerner, he disagreed strongly with the Radical Republicans in Congress over Reconstruction policies.
--Approved the purchase of Alaska--known as "Seward's Folly"--in 1867.
--He violated the Tenure of Office Act, which Congress passed over his veto, by firing Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
--The first President to be impeached (1868).
--He survived removal from the Presidency by a single vote in the Senate (1868).
--Disowned by the Republicans, he unsuccessfully sought the Democrat nomination for the Presidency in 1868.
--Unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senate
from Tennessee (1869).
--Unsuccessful candidate for U.S. House of Representives from Tennessee (1872).
--U.S. Senate from Tennessee (1874-75).
--Twelve of his Senate collegues had voted "guilty" at his impeachment trial.
--Died while serving as Senator.
*White House Page.
*Internet Public Library Page.
*Born in North Carolina.
*Alderman, Mayor, Legislator.
*States Rights and Union.
*The Civil War In Brief.
*National Union Ticket, 1864.
*1864 Election Biography.
*1864 Presidential Election.
*A Time of Violence and Bitterness.
*Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Theories.
*Assassination, War, Reconstruction, Impeachment.
*Proclamation of Amnesty for the Confederate States.
*Frederick Douglass on Reconstruction.
*The Black Codes.
*Freedman's Bureau Online.
*Tenure of Office Act.
*Harpers Weekly on the Impeachment.
*Articles of Impeachment, 1868.
*The Senate Votes on Impeachment.
*Eyewitness to Impeachment.
*Impeachment: Johnson, Nixon and Clinton.
*Died as a Senator.
*NY Times Obituary.
*Andrew Johnson Museum and Library.
*Thomas Nast Cartoon.
*Salmon P. Chase, Presiding Justice.
*William H. Seward Page.
*Edwin M. Stanton Page.
*Benjamin Wade Page.
*Edmund Ross Page.
*President Abraham Lincoln.
Served under Ulysses S. Grant from 1869-1873
The Seventeenth Vice President
Born: March 23, 1823
Died: May 17, 1875
State: Indiana (b. New York)
Party: Republican (originally Whig)
--Newspaper owner and editor, beginning in 1845.
--A Free Soil Party founder (1848).
--Unsuccessful Whig candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana (1850).
--U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana (1855-69).
--Speaker of the House of Representatives (1863-69).
--Vice President of the United States (1869-73).
--Presided over both the House of Representatives, as Speaker, and the Senate, as Vice President.
--Failed in his effort to be renominated with Grant in 1872, and left the Vice Presidency under a cloud, due to the Credit Mobilier corruption scandal.
--Became a public speaker after his political career ended.
*From Whig to Know-Nothing to Republican.
*Odd Fellows Rebekah Degree.
*Civil War Indianan.
*Speaker of the House.
*1868 Election Biography.
*1868 Presidential Election.
*Indiana Vice President.
*Grant Era Scandals.
*Colfax, Nebraska .
*South Bend Chapter, DAR.
*President Ulysses S. Grant.
Served under Ulysses S. Grant from 1873-1875
To see the fact sheet and links for a Vice President, click on his last name:
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.