List of tie-breaking votes cast by vice presidents of the United States
List of vice presidents by number of tie-breaking votes
As of December 21, 2018, there have been 268 tie-breaking votes cast by 36 vice presidents while 12 others did not cast any votes.

List of tie-breaking votes cast by vice presidents of the United States

Section Title: List of vice presidents by number of tie-breaking votes
Table Section Text: As of December 21, 2018, there have been 268 tie-breaking votes cast by 36 vice presidents while 12 others did not cast any votes.

Rank by number of tie- breaking votes	Number of tie- breaking votes	President of the Senate	Party	Order in office	Term of office	President(s)

1	31	John C. Calhoun	Democratic-Republican	7	Mar 4, 1825 – Dec 28, 1832	J. Q. Adams / Andrew Jackson

2	29	John Adams	Federalist	1	Apr 21, 1789 – Mar 4, 1797	George Washington

3	19	George Dallas	Democratic	11	Mar 4, 1845 – Mar 4, 1849	James K. Polk

4	18	Schuyler Colfax	Republican	17	Mar 4, 1869 – Mar 4, 1873	Ulysses S. Grant

5	14	George Clinton	Democratic-Republican	4	Mar 4, 1805 – Apr 20, 1812	Thomas Jefferson / James Madison

5	14	Richard M. Johnson	Democratic	9	Mar 4, 1837 – Mar 4, 1841	Martin Van Buren

7	13	Mike Pence	Republican	48	Jan 20, 2017 – present	Donald Trump

8	10	John C. Breckinridge	Democratic	14	Mar 4, 1857 – Mar 4, 1861	James Buchanan

9	9	Elbridge Gerry	Democratic-Republican	5	Mar 4, 1813 – Nov 23, 1814	James Madison

9	9	Thomas R. Marshall	Democratic	28	Mar 4, 1913 – Mar 4, 1921	Woodrow Wilson

11	8	Alben W. Barkley	Democratic	35	Jan 20, 1949 – Jan 20, 1953	Harry S. Truman

11	8	Richard M. Nixon	Republican	36	Jan 20, 1953 – Jan 20, 1961	Dwight D. Eisenhower

11	8	Dick Cheney	Republican	46	Jan 20, 2001 – Jan 20, 2009	George W. Bush

14	7	Hannibal Hamlin	Republican	15	Mar 4, 1861 – Mar 4, 1865	Abraham Lincoln

14	7	George H. W. Bush	Republican	43	Jan 20, 1981 – Jan 20, 1989	Ronald Reagan

16	6	Daniel D. Tompkins	Democratic-Republican	6	Mar 4, 1817 – Mar 4, 1825	James Monroe

16	6	William A. Wheeler	Republican	19	Mar 4, 1877 – Mar 4, 1881	Rutherford B. Hayes

18	4	Martin Van Buren	Democratic	8	Mar 4, 1833 – Mar 4, 1837	Andrew Jackson

18	4	Levi P. Morton	Republican	22	Mar 4, 1889 – Mar 4, 1893	Benjamin Harrison

18	4	James S. Sherman	Republican	27	Mar 4, 1909 – Oct 30, 1912	William H. Taft

18	4	Henry A. Wallace	Democratic	33	Jan 20, 1941 – Jan 20, 1945	Franklin D. Roosevelt

18	4	Hubert H. Humphrey	Democratic	38	Jan 20, 1965 – Jan 20, 1969	Lyndon B. Johnson

18	4	Al Gore	Democratic	45	Jan 20, 1993 – Jan 20, 2001	Bill Clinton

24	3	Thomas Jefferson	Democratic-Republican	2	Mar 4, 1797 – Mar 4, 1801	John Adams

24	3	Aaron Burr	Democratic-Republican	3	Mar 4, 1801 – Mar 4, 1805	Thomas Jefferson

24	3	Millard Fillmore	Whig	12	Mar 4, 1849 – Jul 9, 1850	Zachary Taylor

24	3	Chester A. Arthur	Republican	20	Mar 4, 1881 – Sep 19, 1881	James A. Garfield

24	3	Charles Curtis	Republican	31	Mar 4, 1929 – Mar 4, 1933	Herbert Hoover

24	3	John N. Garner	Democratic	32	Mar 4, 1933 – Jan 20, 1941	Franklin D. Roosevelt

30	2	Adlai Stevenson	Democratic	23	Mar 4, 1893 – Mar 4, 1897	Grover Cleveland

30	2	Charles G. Dawes	Republican	30	Mar 4, 1925 – Mar 4, 1929	Calvin Coolidge

30	2	Spiro T. Agnew	Republican	39	Jan 20, 1969 – Oct 10, 1973	Richard M. Nixon

33	1	Henry Wilson	Republican	18	Mar 4, 1873 – Nov 22, 1875	Ulysses S. Grant

33	1	Garret A. Hobart	Republican	24	Mar 4, 1897 – Nov 21, 1899	William McKinley

33	1	Harry S. Truman	Democratic	34	Jan 20, 1945 – Apr 12, 1945	Franklin D. Roosevelt

33	1	Walter F. Mondale	Democratic	42	Jan 20, 1977 – Jan 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter

37	0	John Tyler	Whig	10	Mar 4, 1841 – Apr 4, 1841	William H. Harrison

37	0	William R. King	Democratic	13	Mar 4, 1853 – Apr 18, 1853	Franklin Pierce

37	0	Andrew Johnson	National Union	16	Mar 4, 1865 – Apr 15, 1865	Abraham Lincoln

37	0	Thomas A. Hendricks	Democratic	21	Mar 4, 1885 – Nov 25, 1885	Grover Cleveland

37	0	Theodore Roosevelt	Republican	25	Mar 4, 1901 – Sep 14, 1901	William McKinley

37	0	Charles W. Fairbanks	Republican	26	Mar 4, 1905 – Mar 4, 1909	Theodore Roosevelt

37	0	Calvin Coolidge	Republican	29	Mar 4, 1921 – Aug 2, 1923	Warren G. Harding

37	0	Lyndon B. Johnson	Democratic	37	Jan 20, 1961 – Nov 22, 1963	John F. Kennedy

37	0	Gerald R. Ford	Republican	40	Dec 6, 1973 – Aug 9, 1974	Richard M. Nixon

37	0	Nelson A. Rockefeller	Republican	41	Dec 19, 1974 – Jan 20, 1977	Gerald Ford

37	0	Dan Quayle	Republican	44	Jan 20, 1989 – Jan 20, 1993	George H. W. Bush

37	0	Joe Biden	Democratic	47	Jan 20, 2009 – Jan 20, 2017	Barack Obama

Sentence(s)

Charles W. Fairbanks became the vice president without casting any tie-breaking votes as a President of the Senate.

final_sentence: Charles W. Fairbanks became the vice president without casting any tie-breaking votes as a President of the Senate.