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The office of vice president remained vacant during Johnson's first (425-day partial) term, as at the time there was no way to fill a vacancy in the vice presidency. Johnson selected Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, a leading liberal, as his running mate in the 1964 election, and Humphrey served as vice president throughout Johnson's ...
Vice President Humphrey at a meeting in the Oval Office, c. June 21, 1965. Humphrey took office on January 20, 1965, [142] ending the 14-month vacancy of the vice president of the United States, which had remained empty when then-Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963 ...
Kamala Harris, the most recent U.S. vice president to run for president. Nineteen of the 49 vice presidents of the United States have attempted a run for the presidency after being elected vice president. [1] Six have been elected to the presidency, or almost a third of running vice-presidents, while seven have lost the presidential election ...
After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson ascended to the presidency. [1] As the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution had not yet been passed, there was no process for filling the office of vice president until the next post-election inauguration, and Speaker of the House John William McCormack was next-in-line for the ...
The incumbent vice president is JD Vance, who assumed office as the 50th vice president on January 20, 2025. [3] [4] There have been 50 U.S. vice presidents since the office was created in 1789. Originally, the vice president was the person who received the second-most votes for president in the Electoral College.
Some vice presidents had no choice but to become president due to the death or resignation of their predecessors.
Robert F. Kennedy was widely considered an impeccable choice for Johnson's vice presidential running mate but Johnson and Kennedy had never liked each other, and Johnson, afraid that Kennedy would be credited with his election as president, consistently opposed the idea. [165]
Lyndon B. Johnson: 1,036: 37th • January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963 [f] John F. Kennedy: Succeeded to presidency 2 years, 10 months and 2 days into term 36: Henry Wilson: 993: 18th • March 4, 1873 – November 22, 1875 [d] Ulysses S. Grant: Died 2 years, 8 months and 18 days into term 37: Garret Hobart: 992 [e] 24th • March 4, 1897 ...