This list covers the historical firsts of vice presidents of the United States.

John Adams (1789–1797)

John Adams, the first vice president and the first to become president.
  • First vice president.[1]
  • First vice president to serve two terms.
  • First vice president to be elected president.
  • First vice president from Massachusetts.
  • First vice president to have been a Continental Congress Delegate, a state judge, and a U.S. diplomat to France, the Netherlands, and Great Britain.
  • First vice president to have been a lawyer.
  • First vice president from the North and New England.
  • First Unitarian vice president.
  • First vice president to join a political party, the Federalist Party.
  • First vice president to cast a tie-breaking vote as President of the Senate.
  • First former vice president to reach the age of 90.
  • First former vice president to live at the White House.

Thomas Jefferson (1797-1801)

  • First vice president to have sought the presidency against his president.
  • First vice president from Virginia.
  • First vice president from the South.
  • First Deist vice president.
  • First vice president to own slaves.
  • First vice president to enter office as a member of a political party, the Democratic Republican Party.
  • First vice president to have served as a state legislator, a state governor, and U.S. secretary of state.
  • First vice president to be a widower.

Aaron Burr (1801-1805)

  • First vice president from New York.
  • First vice president to have served as a state attorney general and U.S. senator.
  • First Presbyterian vice president.
  • First vice president to be younger than 50.
  • First vice president to be criminally prosecuted.
  • First vice president to never become president.
  • First vice president to have a 30-year long post-vice presidency.

George Clinton (1805-1812)

  • First vice president to be elected under the parameters of the Twelfth Amendment.
  • First vice president to have served as a university president.
  • First Dutch Reformed vice president.
  • First vice president to enter office over the age of 60 and to reach the age of 70 while in office.
  • First vice president to serve under two presidents (Thomas Jefferson and James Madison)
  • First vice president to die in office (or at all, all 3 former vice presidents were alive at the time of Clinton's death).

Elbridge Gerry (1813-1814)

  • First vice president to have served as U.S. congressman.
  • First Episcopalian vice president.
  • First vice president to die in their first term.

Daniel D. Tompkins (1817-1825)

  • First (and only) vice president to have served two terms in the 1800s.
  • First former vice president to die within a year of leaving office.

John C. Calhoun (1825–1832)

  • First vice president from South Carolina.
  • First vice president to resign.
  • First vice president to serve under two presidents after the latter defeated the former in the intervening election.
  • First vice president to switch parties while in office.
  • First vice president to be a member of a third party, the Nullifier Party.
  • First vice president to have served as secretary of war.
  • First vice president to cast over 30 tie-breaking votes in the U.S. Senate.
  • First vice president to be photographed.
  • First former vice president to serve in the U.S. senate after leaving office.
  • First former vice president to serve in the U.S. cabinet after leaving office (secretary of state).

Martin Van Buren (1833–1837)

  • First vice president to be a member of the Democratic Party.
  • First vice president to speak English as a second language.

Richard M. Johnson (1837–1841)

  • First vice president elected through a contingent election in the Senate.
  • First vice president from Kentucky.
  • First vice president to be elected to state legislature after leaving office.

John Tyler (1841)

George M. Dallas (1845–1849)

  • First vice president from Pennsylvania.
  • First vice president to have served as minister to Russia, mayor, and U.S. attorney.
  • First Baptist vice president.

Millard Fillmore (1849–1850)

  • First vice president to have chaired a committee in the U.S. House.
  • First vice president to have served as state comptroller.

William R. King (1853)

  • First vice president from Alabama.
  • First vice president to take the oath of office on foreign soil (Cuba).
  • First vice president to be a bachelor.

John C. Breckinridge (1857–1861)

  • First (and only) vice president to take office under the age of 40
  • First former vice president to be expelled from the U.S. Senate as senator.
  • First former vice president to defect to the Confederacy and serve in its cabinet.

Hannibal Hamlin (1861–1865)

Andrew Johnson (1865)

Schuyler Colfax (1869–1873)

Henry Wilson (1873–1875)

  • First Congregationalist vice president.
  • First vice president to have served as state senate president and chairman of a U.S senate committee.

William A. Wheeler (1877–1881)

Chester A. Arthur (1881)

Thomas A. Hendricks (1885)

  • First vice president born in Ohio.

Levi P. Morton (1889–1893)

  • First vice president to die on his birthday.

Adlai Stevenson I (1893–1897)

Garret Hobart (1897–1899)

  • First vice president from New Jersey.
  • First vice president to be filmed.
  • First vice president to have his voice recorded.

Theodore Roosevelt (1901)

  • First vice president to ascend to the presidency on his president's assassination and be elected to a term in his own right.
  • First vice president to be shot in an assassination attempt (after leaving office).

Charles W. Fairbanks (1905–1909)

  • First vice president to serve a complete term without casting any tie-breaking votes as President of the Senate.

James S. Sherman (1909–1912)

Thomas R. Marshall (1913–1921)

  • First vice president to conduct cabinet meetings.

Calvin Coolidge (1921–1923)

  • First Vice President to attend cabinet meetings.

Charles G. Dawes (1925–1929)

Charles Curtis (1929–1933)

  • First vice president with Native American ancestry.
  • First vice president from Kansas.
  • First vice president born west of the Mississippi River.

John Nance Garner (1933–1941)

  • First vice president from Texas.
  • First vice president to be inaugurated on January 20 (pursuant to the Twentieth Amendment).[lower-alpha 1][2]

Henry A. Wallace (1941–1945)

  • First vice president from Iowa.
  • First vice president to begin his vice presidency on January 20 (pursuant to the Twentieth Amendment).[3]

Harry S. Truman (1945)

  • First vice president from Missouri.
  • First vice president to be a president's third vice president.

Alben W. Barkley (1949–1953)

  • First Methodist vice president.
  • First vice president to take office after turning 70.

Richard Nixon (1953–1961)

  • First vice president from California.
  • First Quaker vice president.
  • First former vice president to be elected president.

Lyndon B. Johnson (1961–1963)

Hubert Humphrey (1965–1969)

Spiro Agnew (1969–1973)

  • First vice president from Maryland.
  • First vice President to have Greek ancestry.
  • First vice president to resign due to scandal.

Gerald Ford (1973–1974)

  • First vice president from Michigan.
  • First vice president to be appointed to the role under the Twenty-fifth Amendment, via a process of presidential nomination and congressional confirmation.
  • First vice president to ascend to the presidency as a result of resignation.

Nelson Rockefeller (1974–1977)

  • First vice president to be appointed to the role under the Twenty-fifth Amendment and not be nominated by their party in the next election.

Walter Mondale (1977–1981)

George H.W. Bush (1981–1989)

  • First vice president to serve as acting president.
  • First former vice president to live at both Number One Observatory Circle and the White House.[4][6]

Dan Quayle (1989–1993)

  • First Baby boomer to be elected Vice President or President.

Al Gore (1993–2001)

Dick Cheney (2001–2009)

  • First vice president from Wyoming.
  • First vice president to serve as acting president twice.

Joe Biden (2009–2017)

  • First vice president from Delaware.
  • First vice president to have been a U.S. senator for 35 years.
  • First Catholic vice president.
  • First vice president to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction.
  • First vice president to cast zero tie-breaking votes whilst serving two full terms.

Mike Pence (2017–2021)

Kamala Harris (2021–present)

  • First female vice president.
  • First African-American vice president.
  • First Asian-American vice president.
  • First female to assume the powers of the presidency, as acting president.

See also

References

  1. ↑ American Political Leaders 1789–2009. CQ Press. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4522-6726-5.
  2. ↑ "38TH INAUGURAL CEREMONIES". Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  3. ↑ "THE 38th PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION". Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  4. 1 2 "The Vice President's Residence". WhiteHouse.gov. Archived from the original on October 21, 2009.
  5. ↑ "Happy, Nelson Rockefeller open 2nd Washington Home". Sarasota Herald-Times. United Press International. September 7, 1975. p. 11A. Archived from the original on January 21, 2021. Retrieved December 31, 2015 – via Google News.
  6. ↑ Groppe, Maureen. "Second Lady Karen Pence lights up garden to honor George H.W. Bush". USA Today. Archived from the original on November 28, 2023. Retrieved November 28, 2023.
  1. ↑ Garner was inaugurated for his first term on March 4, 1933. He was sworn in for a second term as vice president on January 20, 1937, the first time a presidential or vice presidential inauguration took place on January 20th.
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