# List of vice presidents of the United States by other offices held

This is a list of vice presidents of the United States by other offices (either elected or appointive) held, either before or after service as the vice president.

## Federal government
### Executive branch
#### President

| President | Year(s) served | Notes |
| John Adams | 1797–1801 | First sitting vice president elected president |
| Thomas Jefferson | 1801–1809 | Second sitting vice president elected president |
| Martin Van Buren | 1837–1841 | Third sitting vice president elected president |
| John Tyler | 1841–1845 | Became president after Harrison's death, first vice president to become president upon the death of his predecessor |
| Millard Fillmore | 1850–1853 | Became president after Taylor's death |
| Andrew Johnson | 1865–1869 | Became president after Lincoln's assassination |
| Chester A. Arthur | 1881–1885 | Became president after Garfield's assassination |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 1901–1909 | Became president after McKinley's assassination; later elected to own term. |
| Calvin Coolidge | 1923–1929 | Became president after Harding's death; later elected to own term. |
| Harry S. Truman | 1945–1953 | Became president after Roosevelt's death; later elected to own term. |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963–1969 | Became president after Kennedy's assassination; later elected to own term. |
| Richard Nixon | 1969–1974 | First former vice president elected president |
| Gerald Ford | 1974–1977 | Became president after Nixon's resignation; had been appointed vice president after Agnew's resignation. |
| George H. W. Bush | 1989–1993 | Fourth sitting vice president elected president |
| Joe Biden | 2021–2025 | Second former vice president elected president |

#### Cabinet secretaries

| Secretary | Office | President served under | Year(s) served | Notes |
| Thomas Jefferson | Secretary of State | George Washington | 1790–1793 | |
| John C. Calhoun | Secretary of War | James Monroe | 1817–1825 | |
| John C. Calhoun | Secretary of State | John Tyler | 1844–1845 | Served after being vice president |
| Martin Van Buren | Secretary of State | Andrew Jackson | 1829–1831 | |
| Henry A. Wallace | Secretary of Agriculture | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1933–1940 | |
| Henry A. Wallace | Secretary of Commerce | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1945–1946 | Served after being vice president |
| Henry A. Wallace | Secretary of Commerce | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1945–1946 | Served after being vice president |
| Henry A. Wallace | Secretary of Commerce | Harry S. Truman | 1945–1946 | Served after being vice president |
| Dick Cheney | Chief of Staff | Gerald Ford | 1975–1977 | |
| Dick Cheney | Secretary of Defense | George H. W. Bush | 1989–1993 | |

#### Ambassadors

| Vice President | Position | President served under | Year(s) served | Notes |
| John Adams | Minister to the Netherlands | Continental Congress | 1782–1788 | |
| John Adams | Minister to Britain | Continental Congress | 1785–1788 | |
| Thomas Jefferson | Minister Plenipotentiary to France | Continental Congress | 1785–1789 | |
| Martin Van Buren | Minister to Britain | Andrew Jackson | 1831–1832 | |
| George M. Dallas | Minister to Russia | Martin Van Buren | 1837–1839 | |
| George M. Dallas | Minister to Britain | James Buchanan | 1856–1861 | Served after being vice president |
| William R. King | Minister to France | James K. Polk | 1844–1846 | |
| Hannibal Hamlin | Ambassador to Spain | James A. Garfield | 1881–1883 | Served after being vice president |
| Levi P. Morton | Minister Plenipotentiary to France | James A. Garfield | 1881–1885 | |
| Levi P. Morton | Minister Plenipotentiary to France | Chester A. Arthur | 1881–1885 | |
| Charles G. Dawes | United States Ambassador to Britain | Herbert Hoover | 1929–1931 | Served after being vice president |
| Walter Mondale | United States Ambassador to Japan | Bill Clinton | 1993–1996 | Served after being vice president |
| George H. W. Bush | Ambassador to the United Nations | Richard Nixon | 1971–1973 | |
| George H. W. Bush | Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing | Gerald R. Ford | 1974–1975 | Head of U.S. mission in China |

#### Other federal appointees

| Vice President | Office | President appointed by | Year(s) served |
| Hannibal Hamlin | Collector of the Port of Boston | Andrew Johnson | 1865–1866 (after vice presidency) |
| Chester A. Arthur | Collector of the Port of New York | Ulysses S. Grant | 1871–1878 |
| Adlai Stevenson I | First Assistant United States Postmaster General | Grover Cleveland | 1885–1889 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Member, United States Civil Service Commission | Benjamin Harrison | 1889–1895 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Assistant Secretary of the Navy | William McKinley | 1897–1898 |
| Thomas R. Marshall | Member, Lincoln Memorial Commission | Warren G. Harding | 1921–1923 (after vice presidency) |
| Thomas R. Marshall | Chairman, Federal Coal Commission | Warren G. Harding | 1922–1923 (after vice presidency) |
| Charles G. Dawes | Comptroller of the Currency | William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt | 1898–1901 |
| Charles G. Dawes | Director of the Bureau of the Budget | Warren G. Harding | 1921–1922 |
| Nelson Rockefeller | Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1940–1944 |
| Nelson Rockefeller | Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1944–1945 |
| Nelson Rockefeller | Chairman of the International Development Advisory Board | Harry S. Truman | 1950–1953 |
| Nelson Rockefeller | Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1953–1954 |
| Nelson Rockefeller | Special Assistant to the President for Foreign Affairs | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1954–1956 |
| George H. W. Bush | Director of Central Intelligence | Gerald Ford | 1976–1977 |

### Judicial branch

No vice presidents have yet served in the judicial branch.

### Legislative branch
#### Senators

| State | Vice President | Year(s) served | Notes |
| Alabama | William R. King | 1819–1844 | President pro tempore, 1836–1841 |
| Alabama | William R. King | 1848–1852 | President pro tempore, 1850–1852. Resigned to become vice president |
| California | Richard Nixon | 1950–1953 | Resigned to become vice president |
| California | Kamala Harris | 2017–2021 | Resigned to become vice president |
| Delaware | Joe Biden | 1973–2009 | Resigned to become vice president |
| Indiana | Thomas A. Hendricks | 1863–1869 | |
| Indiana | Charles W. Fairbanks | 1897–1905 | Resigned to become vice president |
| Indiana | Dan Quayle | 1981–1989 | Resigned to become vice president |
| Kansas | Charles Curtis | 1907–1913 | President pro tempore, 1911 |
| Kansas | Charles Curtis | 1915–1929 | Republican Whip, 1915–1924. Republican leader, 1924–1929. Resigned to become vice president. |
| Kentucky | Richard Mentor Johnson | 1819–1829 | |
| Kentucky | John C. Breckinridge | 1861 | Served after being vice president |
| Kentucky | Alben W. Barkley | 1927–1949 | Resigned to become vice president |
| Kentucky | Alben W. Barkley | 1955–1956 | Served after being vice president. Died in office |
| Maine | Hannibal Hamlin | 1848–1861 | Resigned to become vice president |
| Maine | Hannibal Hamlin | 1869–1881 | Served after being vice president |
| Massachusetts | Henry Wilson | 1855–1873 | Resigned to become vice president |
| Minnesota | Hubert Humphrey | 1949–1964 | Resigned to become vice president |
| Minnesota | Hubert Humphrey | 1971–1978 | Served after being vice president. Died in office |
| Minnesota | 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 | |
| New York | Martin Van Buren | 1821–1828 | |
| Ohio | JD Vance | 2023–2025 | Resigned to become vice president |
| Pennsylvania | George M. Dallas | 1831–1833 | |
| South Carolina | John C. Calhoun | 1832–1843 | Served after being vice president |
| South Carolina | John C. Calhoun | 1845–1850 | Served after being vice president. Died in office |
| Tennessee | Andrew Johnson | 1857–1862 | |
| Tennessee | Andrew Johnson | 1875 | Served after being vice president. Died in office |
| Tennessee | Al Gore | 1985–1993 | Resigned to become vice president |
| Texas | Lyndon B. Johnson | 1949–1961 | Senate minority leader 1953–1955 Senate majority leader 1955–1961. Resigned to become vice president |
| Virginia | John Tyler | 1827–1836 | President pro tempore, 1835 |
A number of future and former vice presidents served together while in the Senate:
* King served with R. Johnson (1819–1829), Van Buren (1821–1828), Tyler (1827–1836), Dallas (1831–1833), Calhoun (1832–1843, 1848–1850) and Hamlin (1848–1852). Hamlin later served with Wilson (1855–1861; 1869–1873) and A. Johnson (1857–1861; 1875). Wilson and A. Johnson, during their continued service with each other (1861–1862), also served with Breckinridge (1861). Wilson also served with Hendricks (1863–1869).
* Curtis served with Barkley (1927–1929). Barkley later served with Truman (1935–1945), Humphrey (1955–1956) and L. Johnson (1955–1956). Humphrey and L. Johnson, who had served together before and after their service with Barkley (1949–1961), also served with Nixon (1950–1953). Humphrey would be succeeded by Mondale and would later serve with him (1971–1976) and Biden (1973–1978). Biden later served with Quayle (1981–1989) and Gore (1985–1993).

#### Members of the House of Representatives

| State | Vice President | Year(s) served | Notes |
| California | Richard Nixon | 1947–1950 | |
| Illinois | Adlai Stevenson | 1875–1877 | |
| Illinois | Adlai Stevenson | 1879–1881 | |
| Indiana | Schuyler Colfax | 1855–1869 | Served as speaker of the House |
| Indiana | Thomas A. Hendricks | 1851–1855 | |
| Indiana | Dan Quayle | 1977–1981 | |
| Indiana | Mike Pence | 2001–2013 | |
| Kansas | Charles Curtis | 1893–1907 | |
| Kentucky | Richard M. Johnson | 1806–1819 | |
| Kentucky | Richard M. Johnson | 1829–1837 | |
| Kentucky | John C. Breckinridge | 1851–1855 | |
| Kentucky | Alben W. Barkley | 1913–1927 | |
| Maine | Hannibal Hamlin | 1843–1847 | |
| Massachusetts | Elbridge Gerry | 1789–1793 | |
| Michigan | Gerald Ford | 1949–1973 | House minority leader (1965–1973); resigned to become vice president |
| New York | Millard Fillmore | 1833–1835 | |
| New York | Millard Fillmore | 1837–1843 | |
| New York | William Wheeler | 1861–1863 | |
| New York | William Wheeler | 1869–1877 | |
| New York | Levi P. Morton | 1879–1881 | |
| New York | James S. Sherman | 1887–1891 | |
| New York | James S. Sherman | 1893–1909 | |
| North Carolina | William R. King | 1811–1816 | |
| South Carolina | John C. Calhoun | 1811–1817 | |
| Tennessee | Andrew Johnson | 1843–1853 | |
| Tennessee | Al Gore | 1977–1985 | |
| Texas | John Nance Garner | 1903–1933 | Served as speaker of the House |
| Texas | Lyndon B. Johnson | 1937–1949 | |
| Texas | George H. W. Bush | 1967–1971 | |
| Virginia | John Tyler | 1816–1821 | |
| Wyoming | Dick Cheney | 1979–1989 | Republican whip, 1989 |
A number of future vice presidents served in the House together:
* R. Johnson served with King (1811–1816), Calhoun (1811–1817), Tyler (1816–1819) and Fillmore (1833–1835).
* Hamlin served with A. Johnson (1843–1847). Breckinridge and Hendricks served together (1851–1855), as well as with A. Johnson (1851–1853).
* Colfax served with Wheeler (1861–1863). Wheeler later served with Stevenson (1875–1877). Stevenson later served with Morton (1879–1881).
* Sherman served with Curtis (1893–1907) and Garner (1903–1909). Garner later served with Barkley (1913–1927).
* Nixon served with L. Johnson (1947–1949) and Ford (1949–1950). Ford later served with Bush (1967–1971).
* Gore served with Quayle (1977–1981) and Cheney (1979–1985).

### Continental Congress

| Vice President | State | Year(s) served |
| John Adams | Massachusetts | 1774–1778 |
| Thomas Jefferson | Virginia | 1775–1776 1783–1784 |
| Elbridge Gerry | Massachusetts | 1776–1780 |

## State government
### Governors

| State | Vice President | Year(s) served | Notes |
| Indiana | Thomas A. Hendricks | 1873–1877 | |
| Indiana | Thomas R. Marshall | 1909–1913 | |
| Indiana | Mike Pence | 2013–2017 | Resigned to become vice president |
| Maine | Hannibal Hamlin | 1857 | |
| Massachusetts | Elbridge Gerry | 1810–1812 | |
| Massachusetts | Calvin Coolidge | 1919–1921 | |
| Maryland | Spiro Agnew | 1967–1969 | Resigned to become vice president |
| New York | George Clinton | 1777–1795 | |
| New York | George Clinton | 1801–1804 | |
| New York | Daniel D. Tompkins | 1807–1817 | Resigned to become vice president |
| New York | Martin Van Buren | 1829 | |
| New York | Levi P. Morton | 1895–1896 | Served after being vice president |
| New York | Theodore Roosevelt | 1899–1900 | |
| New York | Nelson Rockefeller | 1959–1973 | |
| Tennessee | Andrew Johnson | 1853–1857 | |
| Tennessee | Andrew Johnson | 1862–1865 | Military governor |
| Virginia | Thomas Jefferson | 1779–1781 | |
| Virginia | John Tyler | 1825–1827 | |

### State legislators

    See below for information about pre-1776 colonial offices held.
| State legislature | Vice President | Year(s)served | Notes |
| Indiana House of Representatives | Thomas A. Hendricks | 1849 | Speaker of the House 1849 |
| Kentucky House of Representatives | Richard M. Johnson | 1804–1806; 1819; 1841-1843 and 1850 (after vice presidency) | Only vice president to serve in a state legislature after his vice presidency. Died in office |
| Kentucky House of Representatives | John C. Breckinridge | 1849–1851 | |
| Maine House of Representatives | Hannibal Hamlin | 1836–1841 | Speaker of the House, 1837–1838, 1839–1840 |
| Massachusetts House of Representatives | Henry Wilson | 1841–1842 | |
| Massachusetts House of Representatives | Calvin Coolidge | 1907–1909 | |
| Massachusetts Senate | Henry Wilson | 1845–1847, 1851–1853 | President of the Senate, 1851–1853 |
| Massachusetts Senate | Calvin Coolidge | 1912–1915 | President of the Senate, 1914–1915 |
| New York Senate | Martin Van Buren | 1812–1820 | |
| New York Senate | William A. Wheeler | 1858–1859 | |
| New Jersey General Assembly | Garret Hobart | 1873–1876 | Speaker of the House 1874 |
| New Jersey Senate | Garret Hobart | 1876–1882 | President of the Senate 1881–1882 |
| New York State Assembly | Aaron Burr | 1784–1785 | |
| New York State Assembly | Aaron Burr | 1798–1799 | |
| New York State Assembly | George Clinton | 1800–1801 | |
| New York State Assembly | Millard Fillmore | 1829–1831 | |
| New York State Assembly | William A. Wheeler | 1850–1851 | |
| New York State Assembly | Theodore Roosevelt | 1882–1884 | Minority leader 1883 |
| Texas House of Representatives | John Nance Garner | 1899–1903 | |
| Tennessee House of Representatives | Andrew Johnson | 1835–1837 | |
| Tennessee Senate | Andrew Johnson | 1841–1843 | |
| Virginia House of Delegates | Thomas Jefferson | 1776–1779 | |
| Virginia House of Delegates | John Tyler | 1811–1816 | |
| Virginia House of Delegates | John Tyler | 1823–1825 | |

### Other statewide offices

| Vice President | Office and jurisdiction | Year(s) served |
| Aaron Burr | Attorney General of New York | 1789–1791 |
| Martin Van Buren | Attorney General of New York | 1815–1819 |
| George M. Dallas | Attorney General of Pennsylvania | 1833–1835 |
| Millard Fillmore | New York State Comptroller | 1848–1849 |
| Calvin Coolidge | Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts | 1916–1919 |
| Walter Mondale | Attorney General of Minnesota | 1960–1964 |
| Kamala Harris | Attorney General of California | 2011–2017 |

## Municipal government

| Vice President | Office and jurisdiction | Year(s) served |
| Martin Van Buren | Surrogate of Columbia County, New York | 1808–1812 |
| George M. Dallas | Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 1828–1829 |
| Andrew Johnson | Alderman, Greeneville, Tennessee | 1828–1830 |
| Andrew Johnson | Mayor of Greeneville, Tennessee | 1830–1833 |
| William A. Wheeler | District Attorney; Franklin County, New York | 1846–1849 |
| Adlai Stevenson I | State's Attorney; Woodford County, Illinois | 1859–1869 |
| James S. Sherman | Mayor of Utica, New York | 1884–1885 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | President of the New York Board of Police Commissioners | 1895–1897 |
| Calvin Coolidge | Mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts | 1910–1911 |
| John Nance Garner | County Judge of Uvalde County, Texas | 1893–1896 |
| Harry S. Truman | Eastern District Judge, Jackson County, Missouri | 1923–1925 |
| Harry S. Truman | Presiding Judge, Jackson County, Missouri | 1927–1935 |
| Alben W. Barkley | District Attorney of McCracken County, Kentucky | 1906–1913 |
| Hubert H. Humphrey | Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota | 1945–1948 |
| Spiro Agnew | Member, Baltimore County, Maryland Zoning Board of Appeals | 1956–1960 |
| Spiro Agnew | Chairman, Baltimore County, Maryland Zoning Board of Appeals | 1958–1960 |
| Spiro Agnew | County Executive, Baltimore County, Maryland | 1962–1966 |
| Joe Biden | Member of the New Castle County, Delaware County Council | 1971–1973 |
| Kamala Harris | District Attorney of San Francisco | 2004–2011 |

## Foreign governments
### Colonial, Confederate legislators, and Confederate Cabinet

| Legislature | Vice President | Year(s) served | Notes |
| Confederate Cabinet | John C. Breckinridge | 1865 | Confederate States Secretary of War, served after being vice president |
| Confederate Congress | John Tyler | 1861–1862 | Under the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, served after being vice president and president. |
| Massachusetts House of Representatives | Elbridge Gerry | 1772–1775 | Under the Kingdom of Great Britain before 1776. |
| Massachusetts House of Representatives | John Adams | 1768–1774 | Under the Kingdom of Great Britain before 1776. |
| Virginia House of Burgesses | Thomas Jefferson | 1769–1774 | Under the Kingdom of Great Britain before 1776. |

## Lost races

Other than immediate re-election to the vice presidency
| Vice President | Office and jurisdiction | Year | Notes |
| John Adams | President of the United States | 1800 | Lost re-election to Thomas Jefferson |
| Thomas Jefferson | President of the United States | 1796 | Lost to John Adams. Elected president in 1800 and re-elected in 1804 |
| Aaron Burr | Governor of New York | 1804 | Lost to Morgan Lewis |
| Elbridge Gerry | Governor of Massachusetts | 1788 1800 1801 1802 1803 1812 | Lost to John Hancock in 1788 and Caleb Strong in 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1812. Won in 1810 and 1811 |
| Daniel D. Tompkins | Governor of New York | 1820 | Lost to DeWitt Clinton. Won in 1807, 1810, 1813, and 1816. |
| Martin Van Buren | President of the United States | 1840 1848 | Lost re-election to William Henry Harrison in 1840. Ran on Free Soil Ticket 1848; came in third place behind Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass |
| Martin Van Buren | Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1844 | Placed in distant third behind James K. Polk and Lewis Cass |
| Richard Mentor Johnson | United States Senator from Kentucky | 1842 | Lost to John J. Crittenden |
| Richard Mentor Johnson | Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1844 | Lost to James K. Polk |
| John Tyler | Vice President of the United States | 1836 | Lost to Richard Mentor Johnson. Later won in 1840. |
| George M. Dallas | Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1848 | Lost to Lewis Cass |
| Millard Fillmore | United States Senator from New York | 1843 | Lost to Silas Wright |
| Millard Fillmore | Governor of New York | 1844 | Lost to Silas Wright |
| Millard Fillmore | Whig nomination for Vice President of the United States | 1844 | Lost to Theodore Frelinghuysen. Later won in 1848. |
| Millard Fillmore | Whig nomination for President of the United States | 1852 | Lost to Winfield Scott |
| Millard Fillmore | President of the United States | 1856 | Ran on Whig and Know-Nothing tickets 1856; came in third place behind James Buchanan and John C. Fremont |
| John C. Breckinridge | President of the United States | 1860 | Ran as Southern Democrat 1860; lost to Abraham Lincoln |
| Andrew Johnson | Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1860 1868 | Lost to Stephen A. Douglas in 1860 and Horatio Seymour in 1868 |
| Andrew Johnson | United States Senator from Tennessee | 1869 | Lost to Henry Cooper |
| Andrew Johnson | United States Representative | 1872 | Came in third behind Horace Maynard and Benjamin F. Cheatham |
| Henry Wilson | Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States | 1868 | Lost to Schuyler Colfax. Later won in 1872. |
| William A. Wheeler | Republican nomination for President of the United States | 1876 | Lost to Rutherford B. Hayes. Later made Hayes' running mate and elected vice president |
| Thomas A. Hendricks | Governor of Indiana | 1860 1868 | Lost to Henry S. Lane in 1860 and Conrad Baker in 1868. Later elected in 1872 |
| Thomas A. Hendricks | Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1876, 1880, 1884 | Lost to Samuel J. Tilden in 1876, Winfield Scott Hancock in 1880 and Grover Cleveland in 1884. Later made Tilden's running mate in 1876 and Cleveland's running mate in 1884 |
| Thomas A. Hendricks | Vice President of the United States | 1876 | Lost to William A. Wheeler. Later elected in 1884 |
| Levi P. Morton | Republican nomination for President of the United States | 1896 | Lost to William McKinley |
| Adlai Stevenson | Vice President of the United States | 1900 | Lost to Theodore Roosevelt |
| Adlai Stevenson | Governor of Illinois | 1908 | Lost to Charles S. Deneen |
| Garret Hobart | United States Senator from New Jersey | 1883 | Lost to John R. McPherson. At the time Senators were chosen by the state legislature. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Mayor of New York City | 1886 | Placed in distant third behind Abram S. Hewitt and Henry George |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Republican nomination for President of the United States | 1912 | Lost to William Howard Taft |
| Theodore Roosevelt | President of the United States | 1912 | Placed distant second to Woodrow Wilson. Candidate of the Progressive Party. Only third-party candidate to place second in an election. |
| Charles W. Fairbanks | United States Senator from Indiana | 1893 | Lost to David Turpie. At the time Senators were chosen by the state legislature. Later elected in 1897. |
| Charles W. Fairbanks | Republican nomination for President of the United States | 1908, 1916 | Lost to William Howard Taft in 1908 and Charles Evans Hughes in 1916. Later made Hughes's running mate. |
| Charles W. Fairbanks | Vice President of the United States | 1916 | Lost to Thomas R. Marshall |
| Thomas R. Marshall | Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1912 | Lost to Woodrow Wilson. Later made Wilson's running mate and elected vice president |
| Charles G. Dawes | United States Senator from Illinois | 1902 | Lost to Albert J. Hopkins. At the time Senators were chosen by the state legislature |
| Charles Curtis | Republican nomination for President of the United States | 1928 | Lost to Herbert Hoover. Later chosen as Hoover's running mate and elected vice president |
| John Nance Garner | Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1932, 1940 | Lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt both times. In 1932, he was made Roosevelt's running mate and elected vice president. |
| Henry A. Wallace | President of the United States | 1948 | Ran on the Progressive Party ticket 1948. Came in fourth behind Harry S. Truman, Thomas E. Dewey, and Strom Thurmond. |
| Alben W. Barkley | Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1952 | Lost to Adlai Stevenson II |
| Richard Nixon | President of the United States | 1960 | Lost to John F. Kennedy. Elected president in 1968 and re-elected in 1972 |
| Richard Nixon | Governor of California | 1962 | Lost to Pat Brown by nearly 300,000 votes; in his concession speech, he lashed out at the media, saying "...you don't have Nixon to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference." |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | United States Senator from Texas | 1941 | Lost to W. Lee O'Daniel. Later elected Senator in 1948 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1960 | Placed second to John F. Kennedy after failing to contest any state primaries. Later chosen as Kennedy's running mate and elected vice president. He assumed the presidency upon Kennedy's assassination in 1963. He subsequently won the Democratic nomination (and the presidency) in 1964. |
| Hubert H. Humphrey | Democratic nomination for Vice President of the United States | 1956 | Lost to Estes Kefauver. Later won in 1964. |
| Hubert H. Humphrey | Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1960 1972 | Lost to John F. Kennedy in 1960 and George McGovern in 1972. Won the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 1968. |
| Hubert H. Humphrey | President of the United States | 1968 | Lost to Richard Nixon. |
| Spiro Agnew | Maryland Circuit Court Judge | 1960 |
| Gerald Ford | President of the United States | 1976 | Lost to Jimmy Carter |
| Nelson Rockefeller | Republican nomination for President of the United States | 1960, 1964, 1968 | Lost to Richard Nixon in 1960 and 1968 and Barry Goldwater in 1964 |
| Walter Mondale | President of the United States | 1984 | Lost to Ronald Reagan. |
| Walter Mondale | United States Senator from Minnesota | 2002 | Replaced Senator Paul Wellstone on the ballot after his death in a plane crash. Lost to Norm Coleman |
| George H. W. Bush | United States Senator from Texas | 1964 1970 | Lost to Ralph Yarborough in 1964 and Lloyd Bentsen in 1970 |
| George H. W. Bush | Republican nomination for President of the United States | 1980 | Lost to Ronald Reagan. Later chosen as Reagan's running mate and elected vice president. Elected president in 1988 but lost re-election in 1992 to Bill Clinton |
| George H. W. Bush | President of the United States | 1992 | Lost re-election to Bill Clinton |
| Dan Quayle | Republican nomination for President of the United States | 2000 | Lost to George W. Bush |
| Albert A. Gore | Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1988 | Lost to Michael Dukakis. Later won Democratic nomination in 2000. |
| Albert A. Gore | President of the United States | 2000 | Lost to George W. Bush |
| Joe Biden | Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 1988, 2008 | Lost to Michael Dukakis in 1988 and Barack Obama in 2008. Later chosen as Obama's running mate in 2008 and elected vice president. Elected president in 2020. |
| Mike Pence | United States Representative | 1988 1990 | Lost to Philip Sharp both times. Later elected in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010. |
| Mike Pence | Republican nomination for President of the United States | 2024 | Lost to Donald Trump |
| Kamala Harris | Democratic nomination for President of the United States | 2020 | Lost to Joe Biden. Later chosen as Biden's running mate in 2020 and elected vice president. |
| Kamala Harris | President of the United States | 2024 | Lost to Donald Trump |