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Aaron Burr Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician, businessman, lawyer, and Founding Father who served as the third vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805 during Thomas Jefferson's first presidential term.
The United States presidential line of succession is the order in which the vice president of the United States and other officers of the United States federal government assume the powers and duties of the U.S. presidency (or the office itself, in the instance of succession by the vice president) upon an elected president's death, resignation, removal from office, or incapacity.
Section 2 provides a mechanism for filling a vacancy in the vice presidency. Before the Twenty-fifth Amendment, a vice-presidential vacancy continued until a new vice president took office at the start of the next presidential term; the vice presidency had become vacant several times due to death, resignation, or succession to the presidency, and these vacancies had often lasted several years.
Some vice presidents had no choice but to become president due to the death or resignation of their predecessors.
If the president is unable to serve, through illness or death, the 25th Amendment makes clear the powers of the presidency transfer to Vice President Mike Pence until the president regains the ...
Resigned to become vice president 1971–1978 Served after being vice president. Died in office Walter Mondale: 1964–1976 Resigned to become vice president Missouri: Harry S. Truman: 1935–1945 Resigned to become vice president New York: Aaron Burr: 1791–1797 Martin Van Buren: 1821–1828 Ohio: JD Vance: 2023–2025 Resigned to become vice ...
But the vice-president-elect also recently attracted the ire of Maga by suggesting that not everyone who participated in the riot at the Capitol on 6 January 2021 would be automatically pardoned.
Vice President-elect Dan Quayle (second from right) and his wife Marilyn with Vice President and President-elect George H. W. Bush and his wife Barbara, as well as outgoing president Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy during a press conference held in the White House Rose Garden during the 1988–89 presidential transition of George H. W. Bush