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VPs never POTUS
YGK These Vice Presidents Who Never Became President
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Thomas Jefferson’s first vice president | Aaron Burr |
| The years Aaron Burr served as VP | 1801 to 1805 |
| The New York senator who helped build the Tammany Society and Manhattan Company | Aaron Burr |
| The organization the Tammany Society became | Tammany Hall |
| The organization the Manhattan Company became | Chase Manhattan Bank |
| The person who tied Jefferson in the Electoral College in 1800 and covertly tried to become president | Aaron Burr |
| The person who blocked Burr's presidential effort and was later killed by him in a duel | Alexander Hamilton |
| The Jefferson administration put Burr on trial for this crime in 1807 | Treason |
| The land deal involved in Burr's alleged plot to set up his own country | Louisiana Purchase |
| James Madison’s second vice president who died in office | Elbridge Gerry |
| The years Elbridge Gerry served as VP | 1813 to 1814 |
| The delegate who refused to sign the Constitution at the Constitutional Convention, largely because it lacked a Bill of Rights | Elbridge Gerry |
| The French agents demanded bribes during this event involving Gerry, Pinckney, and Marshall | XYZ Affair |
| The Massachusetts governor whose partisan redistricting plan gave rise to the term “gerrymandering” | Elbridge Gerry |
| John Quincy Adams’ vice president and Andrew Jackson’s first vice president who resigned | John C. Calhoun |
| The years John C. Calhoun served as VP | 1825 to 1832 |
| The leading “war hawk” early in his career who supported the War of 1812 | John C. Calhoun |
| The person whose wife Floride snubbed Peggy Eaton during the Petticoat Affair | John C. Calhoun |
| The doctrine embraced by South Carolina and supported by Calhoun to oppose the “Tariff of Abominations” | Nullification |
| The first vice president to resign from office | John C. Calhoun |
| The nation’s leading advocate for states’ rights and slavery during his later career as a senator | John C. Calhoun |
| The term Calhoun used to describe slavery | A “positive good” |
| James Buchanan’s vice president | John C. Breckinridge |
| The years John C. Breckinridge served as VP | 1857 to 1861 |
| The youngest ever vice president, taking office at just age 36 | John C. Breckinridge |
| The presidential candidate of southern Democrats in 1860 who refused to support Stephen Douglas | John C. Breckinridge |
| The person to whom Breckinridge lost the 1860 election (whose wife was his distant cousin) | Abraham Lincoln |
| The side Breckinridge enlisted with in the Civil War, causing his expulsion from the Senate | Confederate Army |
| The battle won by Breckinridge as a southern general | Battle of New Market |
| The last Confederate secretary of war | John C. Breckinridge |
| Calvin Coolidge’s vice president | Charles Dawes |
| The years Charles Dawes served as VP | 1925 to 1929 |
| The only vice president to compose a number-one song (“It’s All in the Game”) | Charles Dawes |
| The successful banker who proposed a plan to resolve the financial crisis in Europe after WWI | Charles Dawes |
| The plan through which the U.S. gave money to Germany so it could repay reparations to Britain and France | The Dawes Plan |
| The person who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on the Dawes Plan | Charles Dawes |
| The first head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, founded by Herbert Hoover | Charles Dawes |
| Lyndon Johnson’s vice president | Hubert Humphrey |
| The years Hubert Humphrey served as VP | 1965 to 1969 |
| The mayor of Minneapolis who introduced an anti-segregation plank in the 1948 Democratic platform | Hubert Humphrey |
| The southern delegates walked out and formed this party after Humphrey's anti-segregation plank was introduced | Dixiecrat party |
| The Minnesota senator instrumental in passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Hubert Humphrey |
| The person who lost the close 1968 election to Richard Nixon after winning the Democratic nomination during a convention marred by riots | Hubert Humphrey |
| The person who died in office in 1978 after returning to the Senate | Hubert Humphrey |
| Richard Nixon’s first vice president who resigned | Spiro Theodore “Ted” Agnew |
| The years Spiro Agnew served as VP | 1969 to 1973 |
| The only two vice presidents to resign from office | Agnew and John C. Calhoun |
| The governor of Maryland who became Nixon’s running mate due to his moderate reputation and “law and order” policies | Spiro Agnew |
| The person known as Nixon’s “attack dog,” calling liberals “nattering nabobs of negativism” | Spiro Agnew |
| The reason Agnew resigned in 1973 | Received bribes as governor; pled no contest to tax evasion |
| The crime Agnew pled no contest to, ending his political career | Tax evasion |
| Gerald Ford’s vice president | Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller |
| The years Nelson Rockefeller served as VP | 1974 to 1977 |
| The grandson of Standard Oil founder John Rockefeller | Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller |
| The governor of New York who crushed the Attica Prison Uprising | Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller |
| The leader of the “Eastern Establishment,” the liberal wing of the Republican Party | Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller |
| The reason Ford dropped Rockefeller as his running mate in 1976 in favor of Bob Dole | Rockefeller's controversial second marriage to Happy Murphy |
| The amendment Ford used to appoint Rockefeller as vice president after succeeding Nixon | 25th Amendment |
| Bill Clinton’s vice president | Al Gore |
| The years Al Gore served as VP | 1993 to 2001 |
| The Tennessee senator who wrote the best-selling ecological book Earth in the Balance | Al Gore |
| The person who popularized the term “Information Superhighway” and claimed he “took the initiative in creating the Internet” | Al Gore |
| The Democratic presidential candidate in 2000 who lost a disputed election that hinged on a Supreme Court recount halt in Florida | Al Gore |
| The person who made the documentary An Inconvenient Truth about climate change | Al Gore |
| The person who won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his documentary and environmental work | Al Gore |
| George W. Bush’s vice president | Dick Cheney |
| The years Dick Cheney served as VP | 2001 to 2009 |
| The person who served as Gerald Ford’s chief of staff, secretary of defense during the First Gulf War, and CEO of Halliburton | Dick Cheney |
| The chief of staff convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with the Valerie Plame leak | Scooter Libby |
| The reason Dick Cheney was dogged by controversy in a hunting accident | Shot a 78-year-old man in the face |
| The daughter of Dick Cheney who won his old seat as Wyoming’s representative in Congress and became a leading critic of Donald Trump | Liz Cheney |
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