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Clinton convinced Lloyd Bentsen, a longtime Senator from Texas and the 1988 Democratic vice presidential nominee, to serve as his first Secretary of the Treasury. [10] At the start of Clinton's first term, Bentsen, OMB Director Leon Panetta, Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, and policy coordinator Robert Rubin were Clinton's top economic ...
Vice President Length in days Order of vice presidency President served under Number of terms 1 tie: Daniel D. Tompkins: 2,922: 6th • March 4, 1817 – March 4, 1825: James Monroe: Two full terms Thomas R. Marshall: 2,922: 28th • March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921: Woodrow Wilson: Two full terms Richard Nixon: 2,922: 36th • January 20, 1953 ...
He served as vice president during the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001, defeating then-incumbents George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle in 1992, and Bob Dole and Jack Kemp in 1996, and was the first Democrat to serve two full terms as vice president since John Nance Garner.
In 2000, as Clinton came to the end of his second term as president, he ceded the spotlight to his vice president, Al Gore, who looked to distance himself from the scandal and Clinton’s impeachment.
Two vice presidents—George Clinton and John C. Calhoun—served under more than one president. 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.
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 ...
Vilsack, a longtime Clinton backer, was already vetted for the job by John Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004. Tom Vilsack emerges as the favorite to be Clinton's VP Skip to main content
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe; born August 19, 1946) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979 and as the governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992.