List of Vice Presidents of the United States - wikipedia List of Vice Presidents of the United States This article is part of a series on the Politics of the United States of America Federal Government Constitution of the United States Law Taxation Legislature United States Congress House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan ( R ) Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy ( R ) Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi ( D ) Congressional districts United States Senate President Mike Pence ( R ) President Pro Tempore Orrin Hatch ( R ) President Pro Tempore Emeritus Patrick Leahy ( D ) Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ( R ) Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ( D ) Executive President of the United States Donald Trump ( R ) Vice President of the United States Mike Pence ( R ) Cabinet Federal agencies Executive Office Judiciary Supreme Court of the United States Chief Justice John Roberts Kennedy Thomas Ginsburg Breyer Alito Sotomayor Kagan Gorsuch Courts of Appeals District Courts ( list ) Other tribunals Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Off - year elections Political parties Democratic Republican Third parties Federalism State Government Governors Legislatures ( List ) State courts Local government Other countries Atlas There have been 48 Vice Presidents of the United States since the office came into existence in 1789. Originally, the Vice President was the person who received the second most votes for President of the United States in the Electoral College. However, in the election of 1800, a tie in the electoral college between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr led to the selection of the President by the House of Representatives. To prevent such an event from happening again, the Twelfth Amendment was added to the Constitution, creating the current system where electors cast a separate ballot for the vice presidency. The United States Constitution assigns few powers or duties to the vice president. The Vice President 's primary function is to succeed to the presidency if the President dies, resigns, or is impeached and removed from office. Nine vice presidents have ascended to the presidency in this way : eight through the president 's death, and one, Gerald Ford, through the president 's resignation. In addition, the Vice President serves as the President of the Senate and may choose to cast a tie - breaking vote on decisions made by the Senate. Vice presidents have exercised this latter power to varying extents over the years. Prior to passage of the Twenty - fifth Amendment, a vacancy in the office of the Vice President could not be filled until the next post-election inauguration. Such vacancies were common ; sixteen occurred before the 25th Amendment was ratified -- as a result of seven deaths, one resignation ( John C. Calhoun, who resigned to become a U.S. Senator ), and eight cases in which the vice president succeeded to the presidency. This amendment allowed for a vacancy to be filled with appointment by the President and confirmation by both chambers of the U.S. Congress. Since the Amendment 's passage, two vice presidents have been appointed through this process, Gerald Ford in 1973 and Nelson Rockefeller in 1974. The Twenty - fifth Amendment also established a procedure whereby a Vice President may, if the president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office, temporarily assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. George H.W. Bush did so once, on July 13, 1985. Dick Cheney did so twice, on June 29, 2002, and on July 21, 2007. Vice presidents have hailed from 21 states. More than half of them have come from just five states, New York ( 11 ), Indiana ( 6 ), Massachusetts ( 4 ), Kentucky ( 3 ), and Texas ( 3 ). Most vice presidents have been in their 50s or 60s and had political experience prior to assuming the office. The youngest person to become Vice President was John C. Breckinridge at 36 years of age, while the oldest was Alben W. Barkley at 71 years of age. Two vice presidents -- George Clinton and John C. Calhoun -- served under more than one president. Contents 1 Vice presidents 2 Subsequent public service 3 Notes 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Vice presidents Pro-Administration ( 1 ) Federalist ( 1 ) Democratic - Republican ( 6 ) Nullifier ( 1 ) Democratic ( 17 ) Whig ( 2 ) Republican ( 21 ) National Union ( 1 ) Vice presidency Vice President Prior office Party Election President April 21, 1789 -- March 4, 1797 John Adams 1735 -- 1826 ( Lived : 90 years ) United States Minister to the Court of St. James 's ( 1785 -- 1788 ) Pro -- Admin. ( 1788 -- 89 ) George Washington Federalist ( 1792 ) March 4, 1797 -- March 4, 1801 Thomas Jefferson 1743 -- 1826 ( Lived : 83 years ) 1st United States Secretary of State ( 1790 -- 1793 ) Democratic - Republican ( 1796 ) John Adams March 4, 1801 -- March 4, 1805 Aaron Burr 1756 -- 1836 ( Lived : 80 years ) Member of the New York State Assembly ( 1784 -- 1785 & 1798 -- 1799 ) Democratic - Republican ( 1800 ) Thomas Jefferson March 4, 1805 -- April 20, 1812 ( Died in office ) George Clinton 1739 -- 1812 ( Lived : 72 years ) 1st Governor of New York ( 1777 -- 1795 & 1801 -- 1804 ) Democratic - Republican 5 ( 1804 ) 6 ( 1808 ) James Madison Office vacant April 20, 1812 -- March 4, 1813 5 March 4, 1813 -- November 23, 1814 ( Died in office ) Elbridge Gerry 1744 -- 1814 ( Lived : 70 years ) 9th Governor of Massachusetts ( 1810 -- 1812 ) Democratic - Republican 7 ( 1812 ) Office vacant November 23, 1814 -- March 4, 1817 6 March 4, 1817 -- March 4, 1825 Daniel D. Tompkins 1774 -- 1825 ( Lived : 50 years ) 4th Governor of New York ( 1807 -- 1817 ) Democratic - Republican 8 ( 1816 ) James Monroe 9 ( 1820 ) 7 March 4, 1825 -- December 28, 1832 ( Resigned from office ) John C. Calhoun 1782 -- 1850 ( Lived : 68 years ) 10th United States Secretary of War ( 1817 -- 1825 ) Democratic - Republican 10 ( 1824 ) John Q. Adams Nullifier Democratic 11 ( 1828 ) Andrew Jackson Office vacant December 28, 1832 -- March 4, 1833 8 March 4, 1833 -- March 4, 1837 Martin Van Buren 1782 -- 1862 ( Lived : 79 years ) United States Minister to the Court of St. James 's ( 1831 -- 1832 ) Democratic 12 ( 1832 ) 9 March 4, 1837 -- March 4, 1841 Richard M. Johnson 1780 -- 1850 ( Lived : 70 years ) U.S. Representative for Kentucky 's 13th district ( 1833 -- 1837 ) Democratic 13 ( 1836 ) Martin Van Buren 10 March 4, 1841 -- April 4, 1841 ( Succeeded to presidency ) John Tyler 1790 -- 1862 ( Lived : 71 years ) U.S. Senator from Virginia ( 1827 -- 1836 ) Whig 14 ( 1840 ) William H. Harrison ( Died in office ) Office vacant April 4, 1841 -- March 4, 1845 John Tyler 11 March 4, 1845 -- March 4, 1849 George M. Dallas 1792 -- 1864 ( Lived : 72 years ) United States Minister to Russia ( 1837 -- 1839 ) Democratic 15 ( 1844 ) James K. Polk 12 March 4, 1849 -- July 9, 1850 ( Succeeded to presidency ) Millard Fillmore 1800 -- 1874 ( Lived : 74 years ) 14th New York State Comptroller ( 1848 -- 1849 ) Whig 16 ( 1848 ) Zachary Taylor ( Died in office ) Office vacant July 9, 1850 -- March 4, 1853 Millard Fillmore 13 March 4, 1853 -- April 18, 1853 ( Died in office ) William R. King 1786 -- 1853 ( Lived : 67 years ) U.S. Senator from Alabama ( 1819 -- 1844 & 1848 -- 1852 ) President pro tempore ( 1850 -- 1852 ) Democratic 17 ( 1852 ) Franklin Pierce Office vacant April 18, 1853 -- March 4, 1857 14 March 4, 1857 -- March 4, 1861 John C. Breckinridge 1821 -- 1875 ( Lived : 54 years ) U.S. Representative for Kentucky 's 8th district ( 1851 -- 1855 ) Democratic 18 ( 1856 ) James Buchanan 15 March 4, 1861 -- March 4, 1865 Hannibal Hamlin 1809 -- 1891 ( Lived : 81 years ) U.S. Senator from Maine ( 1848 -- 1857 & 1857 -- 1861 ) Republican 19 ( 1860 ) Abraham Lincoln ( Died in office ) 16 March 4, 1865 -- April 15, 1865 ( Succeeded to presidency ) Andrew Johnson 1808 -- 1875 ( Lived : 66 years ) 15th Governor of Tennessee ( 1853 -- 1857 ) Military Governor of Tennessee ( 1862 -- 1865 ) National Union Democratic 20 ( 1864 ) Office vacant April 15, 1865 -- March 4, 1869 Andrew Johnson 17 March 4, 1869 -- March 4, 1873 Schuyler Colfax 1823 -- 1885 ( Lived : 61 years ) U.S. Representative for Indiana 's 9th district ( 1855 -- 1869 ) Speaker of the House ( 1863 -- 1869 ) Republican 21 ( 1868 ) Ulysses S. Grant 18 March 4, 1873 -- November 22, 1875 ( Died in office ) Henry Wilson 1812 -- 1875 ( Lived : 63 years ) U.S. Senator from Massachusetts ( 1855 -- 1873 ) Republican 22 ( 1872 ) Office vacant November 22, 1875 -- March 4, 1877 19 March 4, 1877 -- March 4, 1881 William A. Wheeler 1819 -- 1887 ( Lived : 67 years ) U.S. Representative for New York 's 19th district ( 1875 -- 1877 ) Republican 23 ( 1876 ) Rutherford B. Hayes 20 March 4, 1881 -- September 19, 1881 ( Succeeded to presidency ) Chester A. Arthur 1829 -- 1886 ( Lived : 57 years ) 10th Chairman of the New York State Republican Executive Committee ( 1879 -- 1881 ) ( No prior elected office ) Republican 24 ( 1880 ) James A. Garfield ( Died in office ) Office vacant September 19, 1881 -- March 4, 1885 Chester A. Arthur 21 March 4, 1885 -- November 25, 1885 ( Died in office ) Thomas A. Hendricks 1819 -- 1885 ( Lived : 66 years ) 16th Governor of Indiana ( 1873 -- 1877 ) Democratic 25 ( 1884 ) Grover Cleveland Office vacant November 25, 1885 -- March 4, 1889 22 March 4, 1889 -- March 4, 1893 Levi P. Morton 1824 -- 1920 ( Lived : 96 years ) U.S. Minister to France ( 1881 -- 1885 ) Republican 26 ( 1888 ) Benjamin Harrison 23 March 4, 1893 -- March 4, 1897 Adlai Stevenson 1835 -- 1914 ( Lived : 78 years ) First Assistant United States Postmaster General ( 1885 -- 1889 ) Democratic 27 ( 1892 ) Grover Cleveland 24 March 4, 1897 -- November 21, 1899 ( Died in office ) Garret Hobart 1844 -- 1899 ( Lived : 55 years ) Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee ( 1892 -- 1896 ) Republican 28 ( 1896 ) William McKinley ( Died in office ) Office vacant November 21, 1899 -- March 4, 1901 25 March 4, 1901 -- September 14, 1901 ( Succeeded to presidency ) Theodore Roosevelt 1858 -- 1919 ( Lived : 60 years ) 33rd Governor of New York ( 1899 -- 1900 ) Republican 29 ( 1900 ) Office vacant September 14, 1901 -- March 4, 1905 Theodore Roosevelt 26 March 4, 1905 -- March 4, 1909 Charles W. Fairbanks 1852 -- 1918 ( Lived : 66 years ) U.S. Senator from Indiana ( 1897 -- 1905 ) Republican 30 ( 1904 ) 27 March 4, 1909 -- October 30, 1912 ( Died in office ) James S. Sherman 1855 -- 1912 ( Lived : 57 years ) U.S. Representative for New York 's 27th district ( 1903 -- 1909 ) Republican 31 ( 1908 ) William H. Taft Office vacant October 30, 1912 -- March 4, 1913 28 March 4, 1913 -- March 4, 1921 Thomas R. Marshall 1854 -- 1925 ( Lived : 71 years ) 27th Governor of Indiana ( 1909 -- 1913 ) Democratic 32 ( 1912 ) Woodrow Wilson 33 ( 1916 ) 29 March 4, 1921 -- August 2, 1923 ( Succeeded to presidency ) Calvin Coolidge 1872 -- 1933 ( Lived : 60 years ) 48th Governor of Massachusetts ( 1919 -- 1921 ) Republican 34 ( 1920 ) Warren G. Harding ( Died in office ) Office vacant August 2, 1923 -- March 4, 1925 Calvin Coolidge 30 March 4, 1925 -- March 4, 1929 Charles G. Dawes 1865 -- 1951 ( Lived : 85 years ) 1st Director of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget ( 1921 -- 1922 ) ( No prior elected office ) Republican 35 ( 1924 ) 31 March 4, 1929 -- March 4, 1933 Charles Curtis 1860 -- 1936 ( Lived : 76 years ) U.S. Senator from Kansas ( 1907 -- 1913 & 1915 -- 1929 ) President pro tempore ( 1911 ) Senate Majority Leader ( 1925 -- 1929 ) Republican 36 ( 1928 ) Herbert Hoover 32 March 4, 1933 -- January 20, 1941 John N. Garner 1868 -- 1967 ( Lived : 98 years ) U.S. Representative for Texas 's 15th district ( 1903 -- 1933 ) House Minority Leader ( 1929 -- 1931 ) Speaker of the House ( 1931 -- 1933 ) Democratic 37 ( 1932 ) Franklin D. Roosevelt ( Died in office ) 38 ( 1936 ) 33 January 20, 1941 -- January 20, 1945 Henry A. Wallace 1888 -- 1965 ( Lived : 77 years ) 11th United States Secretary of Agriculture ( 1933 -- 1940 ) ( No prior elected office ) Democratic 39 ( 1940 ) 34 January 20, 1945 -- April 12, 1945 ( Succeeded to presidency ) Harry S. Truman 1884 -- 1972 ( Lived : 88 years ) U.S. Senator from Missouri ( 1935 -- 1945 ) Democratic 40 ( 1944 ) Office vacant April 12, 1945 -- January 20, 1949 Harry S. Truman 35 January 20, 1949 -- January 20, 1953 Alben W. Barkley 1877 -- 1956 ( Lived : 78 years ) U.S. Senator from Kentucky ( 1927 -- 1949 ) Democratic 41 ( 1948 ) 36 January 20, 1953 -- January 20, 1961 Richard Nixon 1913 -- 1994 ( Lived : 81 years ) U.S. Senator from California ( 1950 -- 1953 ) Republican 42 ( 1952 ) Dwight D. Eisenhower 43 ( 1956 ) 37 January 20, 1961 -- November 22, 1963 ( Succeeded to presidency ) Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 -- 1973 ( Lived : 64 years ) U.S. Senator from Texas ( 1949 -- 1961 ) Senate Majority Leader ( 1955 -- 1961 ) Democratic 44 ( 1960 ) John F. Kennedy ( Died in office ) Office vacant November 22, 1963 -- January 20, 1965 Lyndon B. Johnson 38 January 20, 1965 -- January 20, 1969 Hubert Humphrey 1911 -- 1978 ( Lived : 66 years ) U.S. Senator from Minnesota ( 1949 -- 1964 ) Senate Majority Whip ( 1961 -- 1964 ) Democratic 45 ( 1964 ) 39 January 20, 1969 -- October 10, 1973 ( Resigned from office ) Spiro Agnew 1918 -- 1996 ( Lived : 77 years ) 55th Governor of Maryland ( 1967 -- 1969 ) Republican 46 ( 1968 ) Richard Nixon ( Resigned from office ) 47 ( 1972 ) Office vacant October 10 -- December 6, 1973 40 December 6, 1973 -- August 9, 1974 ( Succeeded to presidency ) Gerald Ford 1913 -- 2006 ( Lived : 93 years ) U.S. Representative for Michigan 's 5th district ( 1949 -- 1973 ) House Minority Leader ( 1965 -- 1973 ) Republican Office vacant August 9 -- December 19, 1974 Gerald Ford 41 December 19, 1974 -- January 20, 1977 Nelson Rockefeller 1908 -- 1979 ( Lived : 70 years ) 49th Governor of New York ( 1959 -- 1973 ) Republican 42 January 20, 1977 -- January 20, 1981 Walter Mondale Born 1928 ( 89 years old ) U.S. Senator from Minnesota ( 1964 -- 1976 ) Democratic 48 ( 1976 ) Jimmy Carter 43 January 20, 1981 -- January 20, 1989 George H.W. Bush Born 1924 ( 93 years old ) 11th Director of Central Intelligence ( 1976 -- 1977 ) Republican 49 ( 1980 ) Ronald Reagan 50 ( 1984 ) 44 January 20, 1989 -- January 20, 1993 Dan Quayle Born 1947 ( 70 years old ) U.S. Senator from Indiana ( 1981 -- 1989 ) Republican 51 ( 1988 ) George H.W. Bush 45 January 20, 1993 -- January 20, 2001 Al Gore Born 1948 ( 69 years old ) U.S. Senator from Tennessee ( 1985 -- 1993 ) Democratic 52 ( 1992 ) Bill Clinton 53 ( 1996 ) 46 January 20, 2001 -- January 20, 2009 Dick Cheney Born 1941 ( 76 years old ) 17th United States Secretary of Defense ( 1989 -- 1993 ) Republican 54 ( 2000 ) George W. Bush 55 ( 2004 ) 47 January 20, 2009 -- January 20, 2017 Joe Biden Born 1942 ( 74 years old ) U.S. Senator from Delaware ( 1973 -- 2009 ) Democratic 56 ( 2008 ) Barack Obama 57 ( 2012 ) 48 January 20, 2017 -- Incumbent Mike Pence Born 1959 ( 58 years old ) 50th Governor of Indiana ( 2013 -- 2017 ) Republican 58 ( 2016 ) Donald Trump Subsequent Public service Twenty -- five vice presidents held other high U.S. state or federal government positions after leaving the vice presidency. Fourteen went on to become President of the United States ( nine of them following their predecessor 's death or resignation ), and 4 served in the United States Senate. Several served as U.S. Cabinet members, ambassadors of the United States abroad, or in U.S. state government. Vice President Vice-Presidency Subsequent service John Adams 1789 -- 1797 2nd President of the United States ( 1797 -- 1801 ) Thomas Jefferson 1797 -- 1801 3rd President of the United States ( 1801 -- 1809 ) John C. Calhoun 7 1825 -- 1832 U.S. Senator from South Carolina ( 1832 -- 1843 and 1845 -- 1850 ) ; 16th U.S. Secretary of State ( 1844 -- 1845 ) Martin Van Buren 8 1833 -- 1837 8th President of the United States ( 1837 -- 1841 ) Richard M. Johnson 9 1837 -- 1841 Kentucky Representative ( 1841 -- 1843 and 1850 ) John Tyler 10 1841 10th President of the United States ( 1841 -- 1845 ) George M. Dallas 11 1845 -- 1849 United States Minister to the Court of St. James 's ( 1856 -- 1861 ) Millard Fillmore 12 1849 -- 1850 13th President of the United States ( 1850 -- 1853 ) John C. Breckinridge 14 1857 -- 1861 U.S. Senator from Kentucky ( 1861 ) Hannibal Hamlin 15 1861 -- 1865 U.S. Senator from Maine ( 1869 -- 1881 ) ; U.S. Minister to Spain ( 1881 -- 1882 ) Andrew Johnson 16 1865 17th President of the United States ( 1865 -- 1869 ) ; U.S. Senator from Tennessee ( 1875 ) Chester A. Arthur 20 1881 21st President of the United States ( 1881 -- 1885 ) Levi P. Morton 22 1889 -- 1893 31st Governor of New York ( 1895 -- 1896 ) Theodore Roosevelt 25 1901 26th President of the United States ( 1901 -- 1909 ) Calvin Coolidge 29 1921 -- 1923 30th President of the United States ( 1923 -- 1929 ) Charles G. Dawes 30 1925 -- 1929 United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James 's ( 1929 -- 1931 ) Henry A. Wallace 33 1941 -- 1945 10th U.S. Secretary of Commerce ( 1945 -- 1946 ) Harry S. Truman 34 1945 33rd President of the United States ( 1945 -- 1953 ) Alben W. Barkley 35 1949 -- 1953 U.S. Senator from Kentucky ( 1955 -- 1956 ) Richard Nixon 36 1953 -- 1961 37th President of the United States ( 1969 -- 1974 ) Lyndon B. Johnson 37 1961 -- 1963 36th President of the United States ( 1963 -- 1969 ) Hubert Humphrey 38 1965 -- 1969 U.S. Senator from Minnesota ( 1971 -- 1978 ) Gerald Ford 40 1973 -- 1974 38th President of the United States ( 1974 -- 1977 ) Walter Mondale 42 1977 -- 1981 U.S. Ambassador to Japan ( 1993 -- 1996 ) George H.W. Bush 43 1981 -- 1989 41st President of the United States ( 1989 -- 1993 ) In addition to their post-vice - presidency service to the United States, two former vice presidents served in the government of the Confederate States during the American Civil War : John Tyler, as a member of the Provisional Confederate Congress, 1861 -- 1862, elected to the Confederate House of Representatives in November 1861, but died before he could take his seat ; and John C. Breckinridge, as Confederate States Secretary of War, 1865. Notes ^ Jump up to : The vice presidents are counted according to uninterrupted periods of time served by the same person. For example, John Adams served two consecutive terms and is counted as the first vice president ( not the first and second ). Likewise, George Clinton is counted as the fourth and John Calhoun as the seventh, even though each one 's consecutive terms in office were served under more than one president. Following the resignation of 39th vice president Spiro Agnew, Gerald Ford became the 40th vice president even though he was chosen to serve out the remainder of Agnew 's second term. Then, when Ford succeeded to the presidency later in that same term, Nelson Rockefeller became the 41st vice president and served out the remainder of the term. Jump up ^ Listed here ( unless otherwise noted ) is the most recent position -- either with a U.S. state or the federal government, or with a private corporation -- held by the individual prior to becoming Vice President of the United States. Jump up ^ Due to logistical delays, John Adams assumed the office of Vice President 1 month and 17 days after the March 4, 1789 scheduled start of operations of the new government under the Constitution. As a result, his first term was only 1,413 days long, and was the shortest term for a U.S. vice president who neither died in office nor resigned. Jump up ^ Pro-Administration is a contemporary term used to describe the supporters of the political and economic policies of the Washington Administration prior to the formation of the Federalist and Democratic -- Republican parties. Jump up ^ George Washington remained unaffiliated with any political faction or party throughout his eight - year presidency. Greatly concerned about the very real capacity of political parties to destroy the fragile unity holding the nation together, he was, and remains, the only U.S. president never to be affiliated with a political party. Jump up ^ The 1796 presidential election was the first contested American presidential election and resulted in a situation where the persons elected president and vice president belonged to opposing political parties. Federalist John Adams was elected president, and Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic - Republicans was elected vice president. ^ Jump up to : Prior to ratification of the Twenty - fifth Amendment, February 10, 1967, an intra-term vacancy in the vice presidency could not be filled. Jump up ^ John Calhoun, formerly a Democratic - Republican, founded the Nullifier Party in 1828 to advance the cause of states ' rights, but was brought on as Andrew Jackson 's running mate in the 1828 presidential election in an effort to broaden the political coalition emerging around Jackson. Jump up ^ Andrew Jackson 's supporters from the former Democratic - Republican Party, which had largely collapsed by the mid-1820s, began calling themselves democrats during his first term in office, thus marking the evolution of Thomas Jefferson 's Democratic - Republican Party into the modern Democratic Party. Jump up ^ John Tyler, a former Democrat, ran for vice president on the Whig Party ticket with Harrison in 1840. Tyler 's policy priorities as president soon proved to be opposed to most of the Whig agenda, and he was expelled from the party in September 1841. Jump up ^ Ill with tuberculosis, William King traveled to Cuba after the 1852 election in an effort to regain his health, and was not able to be in Washington to take his oath of office on March 4, 1853. By a Special Act of Congress, he was allowed to take the oath outside the United States, and was sworn in on March 24, 1853 near Matanzas, Cuba. He is the only vice president to take his oath of office in a foreign country. Jump up ^ When he ran for reelection in 1864, Republican Abraham Lincoln formed a bipartisan electoral alliance with War Democrats by selecting Democrat Andrew Johnson as his running mate, and running on the National Union Party ticket. Jump up ^ Democrat Andrew Johnson ran for Vice President on the National Union Party ticket with Republican Abraham Lincoln in 1864. Later, while president, Johnson tried and failed to build a party of loyalists under the National Union banner. Near the end of his presidency, Johnson rejoined the Democratic Party. Jump up ^ The Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on January 23, 1933, moved Inauguration Day from March 4 to January 20, beginning in 1937. As a result, John Nance Garner 's first term in office was 1 month and 12 days shorter than a normal term. ^ Jump up to : The Twenty - fifth Amendment established a process whereby an intra-term vacancy in the vice presidency is filled by presidential appointment. 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Question: how many vice presidents of the united states have there been
Answer: 48