THOSE WHO BECAME PRESIDENT
Originally, the vice president was the person who received the second most votes for president in the Electoral College. The 12th Amendment, ratified in 1804, put forth the president and vice president on the same ticket. Vice President Joe Biden is seeking to become the 15th vice president to become president and just the fifth to be elected president.
John Adams
The nation's first vice president served during President George Washington’s two terms.
Millard Fillmore
Fillmore was a member of the Whig party and became 13th president after Zachary Taylor’s death in office
Calvin Coolidge
Coolidge became the 30th president after Warren Harding died two years into his term.
Gerald Ford
Ford became vice president after Spiro Agnew resigned. He became president after Nixon resigned. He is the only politician to have held both offices without being elected.
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson was John Adams’ vice president before becoming the third president of the U.S.
Andrew Johnson
Johnson became the 17th president after Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S president to be assassinated.
Harry S. Truman
Truman was vice president for four months before Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in 1945. Truman was elected in 1948.
George H.W. Bush
Bush was President Ronald Reagan’s vice president from 1981 to 1989, then was elected president for one term in 1989.
Martin Van Buren
0an Buren was 0P while Andrew Jackson was president, then became the eighth president of the U.S., from 1837-41.
Chester A. Arthur
Arthur was vice president for four months, then succeeded President James Garfield after he was assassinated.
Lyndon Johnson Johnson
became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. He was elected in 1964 to a second term.
John Tyler
Tyler became the 10th president after William Henry Harrison was the first president to die while in office.
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt became the 26th president after William McKinley was assassinated. He was elected to a second term.
Richard Nixon
Nixon was vice president from 1953-61 in the Eisenhower presidency. He was president from 1969-74.