List of vice presidents of the United States by time in office
Appearance
This is a list of Vice President of the United States by time in office. The basis of the list is the difference between dates; if counted by number of calendar days all the figures would be one greater.
Since 1789, there have been 48 people sworn into office as Vice President of the United States. Of these, nine succeeded to the presidency during their term, seven died while in office, and two resigned. Since the adoption of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution (February 10, 1967), when there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President nominates a successor who takes office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
Vice Presidents by time in office
Rank | Vice President | Length in days |
Order of vice presidency | President served under |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 tie |
Daniel D. Tompkins | 2,922 | 6th • March 4, 1817 – March 4, 1825 | James Monroe |
Thomas R. Marshall | 2,922 | 28th • March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921 | Woodrow Wilson | |
Richard Nixon | 2,922 | 36th • January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
George H. W. Bush | 2,922 | 43rd • January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989 | Ronald Reagan | |
Al Gore | 2,922[a] | 45th • January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001 | Bill Clinton | |
Dick Cheney | 2,922 | 46th • January 20, 2001 – January 20, 2009 | George W. Bush | |
Joe Biden | 2,922 | 47th • January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017 | Barack Obama | |
8 | John Nance Garner | 2,879[b] | 32nd • March 4, 1933 – January 20, 1941 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
9 | John Adams | 2,874[c] | 1st • April 21, 1789 – March 4, 1797 | George Washington |
10 | John C. Calhoun | 2,856 | 7th • March 4, 1825 – December 28, 1832[d] | John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson |
11 | George Clinton | 2,604 | 4th • March 4, 1805 – April 20, 1812[e] | Thomas Jefferson and James Madison |
12 | Spiro Agnew | 1,724 | 39th • January 20, 1969 – October 10, 1973[d] | Richard Nixon |
13 tie |
Aaron Burr | 1,461 | 3rd • March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1805 | Thomas Jefferson |
Martin Van Buren | 1,461 | 1,4618th • March 4, 1833 – March 4, 1837 | Andrew Jackson | |
Richard Johnson | 1,461 | 9th • March 4, 1837 – March 4, 1841 | Martin Van Buren | |
George M. Dallas | 1,461 | 11th • March 4, 1845 – March 4, 1849 | James K. Polk | |
John C. Breckinridge | 1,461 | 14th • March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861 | James Buchanan | |
Hannibal Hamlin | 1,461 | 15th • March 4, 1861 – March 4, 1865 | Abraham Lincoln | |
Schuyler Colfax | 1,461 | 17th • March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1873 | Ulysses S. Grant | |
William A. Wheeler | 1,461 | 19th • March 4, 1877 – March 4, 1881 | Rutherford B. Hayes | |
Levi P. Morton | 1,461 | 22nd • March 4, 1889 – March 4, 1893 | Benjamin Harrison | |
Adlai E. Stevenson | 1,461 | 23rd • March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897 | Grover Cleveland | |
Charles W. Fairbanks | 1,461 | 26th • March 4, 1905 – March 4, 1909 | Theodore Roosevelt | |
Charles G. Dawes | 1,461 | 30th • March 4, 1925 – March 4, 1929 | Calvin Coolidge | |
Charles Curtis | 1,461 | 31st • March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933 | Herbert Hoover | |
Henry A. Wallace | 1,461 | 33rd • January 20, 1941 – January 20, 1945 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
Alben W. Barkley | 1,461 | 35th • January 20, 1949 – January 20, 1953 | Harry S. Truman | |
Hubert Humphrey | 1,461 | 38th • January 20, 1965 – January 20, 1969 | Lyndon B. Johnson | |
Walter Mondale | 1,461 | 42nd • January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981 | Jimmy Carter | |
Dan Quayle | 1,461 | 44th • January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993 | George H. W. Bush | |
31 | Thomas Jefferson | 1,460[a] | 2nd • March 4, 1797 – March 4, 1801 | John Adams |
32 | James S. Sherman | 1,336 | 27th • March 4, 1909 – October 30, 1912[e] | William Howard Taft |
33 | Lyndon B. Johnson | 1,036 | 37th • January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963[f] | John F. Kennedy |
34 | Henry Wilson | 993 | 18th • March 4, 1873 – November 22, 1875[e] | Ulysses S. Grant |
35 | Garret Hobart | 992[a] | 24th • March 4, 1897 – November 21, 1899[e] | William McKinley |
36 | Calvin Coolidge | 881 | 29th • March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923[f] | Warren G. Harding |
37 | Nelson Rockefeller | 763 | 41st • December 19, 1974[g] – January 20, 1977 | Gerald Ford |
38 | Mike Pence | 2,776[h] | 48th • January 20, 2017 – Incumbent | Donald Trump |
39 | Elbridge Gerry | 629 | 5th • March 4, 1813 – November 23, 1814[e] | James Madison |
40 | Millard Fillmore | 492 | 12th • March 4, 1849 – July 9, 1850[f] | Zachary Taylor |
41 | Thomas A. Hendricks | 266 | 21st • March 4, 1885 – November 25, 1885[e] | Grover Cleveland |
42 | Gerald Ford | 246 | 40th • December 6, 1973[g] – August 9, 1974[f] | Richard Nixon |
43 | Chester A. Arthur | 199 | 20th • March 4, 1881 – September 19, 1881[f] | James A. Garfield |
44 | Theodore Roosevelt | 194 | 25th • March 4, 1901 – September 14, 1901[f] | William McKinley |
45 | Harry S. Truman | 82 | 34th • January 20, 1945 – April 12, 1945[f] | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
46 | William R. King | 45 | 13th • March 4, 1853 – April 18, 1853[e] | Franklin Pierce |
47 | Andrew Johnson | 42 | 16th • March 4, 1865 – April 15, 1865[f] | Abraham Lincoln |
48 | John Tyler | 31 | 10th • March 4, 1841 – April 4, 1841[f] | William Henry Harrison |
Notes
- ^ a b c Of years evenly divisible by 100, only those evenly divisible by 400 are leap years. The years 1800 and 1900 are divisible by 100, but not by 400. as a result, the term of Thomas Jefferson (1797–1801) did not include a 366-day leap year, and so was one day shorter than a normal full term, as would have been the term of Garret Hobart (1897–1901) had he lived to finish it. The year 2000 is divisible by 400 and so did include one, thus Al Gore's second term (1997–2001) was not shorter than his first.
- ^ The 20th Amendment (ratified January 23, 1933) moved Inauguration Day from March 4 to January 20. The 1937 presidential inauguration was the first to take place on the new date. As a result, John Nance Garner's first term in office (1933–1937) was only 1,418 days long, 1 month and 12 days shorter than a normal term.
- ^ Due to logistical delays, John Adams assumed the office of Vice President 1 month and 17 days after the March 4, 1789 scheduled start of operations of the new government under the Constitution. As a result, his first term (1789–1793) was only 1,461 days long, and was the shortest term for a U.S. vice president who neither died in office nor resigned.
- ^ a b Resigned from office
- ^ a b c d e f g Died in office
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Succeeded to presidency.
- ^ a b Confirmed by U.S. Congress.
- ^ As of August 27, 2024.