Vice Presidents
22 people, across 2 fields.
Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826PresidentsPrincipal author of the Declaration of Independence and third President who oversaw the Louisiana Purchase.
Theodore Roosevelt 1858–1919Presidents26th President known for progressive reforms, conservation efforts, and assertive foreign policy.
John Adams 1735–1826PresidentsSecond President and key Founding Father who helped secure independence and shaped early American diplomacy.
Richard Nixon 1913–1994Presidents37th President whose foreign policy achievements were overshadowed by the Watergate scandal.
Lyndon B. Johnson 1908–1973Presidents36th President who signed the Civil Rights Act and launched the Great Society programs.
Joe Biden b. 1942Presidents46th president who enacted major infrastructure and climate legislation after decades in the Senate and vice presidency.
Harry S. Truman 1884–1972Presidents33rd President who authorized the atomic bomb and implemented the Marshall Plan.
George H. W. Bush 1924–2018Presidents41st president who managed the end of the Cold War and assembled the coalition for the Persian Gulf War.
Kamala Harris b. 1964Political Leaders & StatecraftFirst woman, first Black American, and first Asian American to serve as vice president.
John C. Calhoun 1782–1850Notorious FiguresVice president and theorist of slavery and states’ rights whose doctrines intensified sectional conflict.
Dick Cheney 1941–2025Political Leaders & StatecraftVice president who expanded the office's power and directed post-9/11 war policy.
Al Gore b. 1948Political Leaders & StatecraftVice president and 2000 presidential candidate who became a leading advocate for climate policy.
Aaron Burr 1756–1836Political Leaders & StatecraftThird vice president who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel and was later tried for treason.
Andrew Johnson 1808–1875Presidents17th president whose obstruction of Reconstruction weakened protections for formerly enslaved people and led to impeachment.
Gerald Ford 1913–2006Presidents38th president who restored basic governmental stability after Watergate and controversially pardoned Richard Nixon.
Calvin Coolidge 1872–1933PresidentsThirtieth president who cut taxes and federal spending during the economic expansion of the 1920s.
Martin Van Buren 1782–1862PresidentsEighth president who helped build the Democratic Party machine and governed through the Panic of 1837.
Chester A. Arthur 1829–1886PresidentsTwenty-first president who signed the Pendleton Act establishing merit-based federal hiring.
Hubert Humphrey 1911–1978Political Leaders & StatecraftSenator and vice president whose advocacy helped make civil rights a central commitment of the Democratic Party.
Nelson Rockefeller 1908–1979Political Leaders & StatecraftGovernor and unelected vice president whose drug laws set the template for mass incarceration.
John Tyler 1790–1862PresidentsFirst vice president to assume the presidency on a president's death and to annex Texas.
Millard Fillmore 1800–1874PresidentsThirteenth president who signed the Compromise of 1850 including the Fugitive Slave Act.