Vice presidents
Subtitle: a biographical dictionary
By: edited by L. Edward Purcell
Edition: 4th ed.
Series: Facts on File library of American history; Facts on File library of American history
Publisher: Facts On File
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 554
ISBN-13: 9781438130712
Subjects: State & Local; Dictionaries; General; Vice-Presidents; Historical; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Biography; HISTORY
Description: The majority of our vice presidents have been people of extraordinarily high aspiration, ability and achievement. For some, the vice presidency was the deflating end of a political career; for others, the office was a stepping-stone to the presidency.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: John Adams --; title: Thomas Jefferson --; title: Aaron Burr --; title: George Clinton --; title: Elbridge Gerry --; title: Daniel D. Tompkins --; title: John Caldwell Calhoun --; title: Martin Van Buren --; title: Richard Mentor Johnson --; title: John Tyler --; title: George Mifflin Dallas --; title: Millard Fillmore --; title: William Rufus de Vane King --; title: John Cabell Breckinridge --; title: Hannibal Hamlin --; title: Andrew Johnson --; title: Schuyler Colfax --; title: Henry Wilson --; title: William A. Wheeler --; title: Chester Alan Arthur --; title: Thomas Andrews Hendricks --; title: Levi Parsons Morton --; title: Adlai Ewing Stevenson --; title: Garret Augustus Hobart --; title: Theodore Roosevelt --; title: Charles Warren Fairbanks --; title: James Schoolcraft Sherman --; title: Thomas Riley Marshall --; title: Calvin Coolidge --; title: Charles Gates Dawes --; title: Charles Curtis --; title: John Nance Garner --; title: Henry Agard Wallace --; title: Harry S. Truman --; title: Alben W. Barkley --; title: Richard Milhous Nixon --; title: Lyndon Baines Johnson --; title: Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr. --; title: Spiro Theodore Agnew --; title: Gerald Rudolph Ford --; title: Nelson A. Rockefeller --; title: Walter F. Mondale --; title: George Herbert Walker Bush --; title: J. Danforth Quayle --; title: Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. --; title: Richard Bruce Cheney --; title: Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.