Vice President of the United States of America

The Vice President of the United States of America is first in the order of succession to the Presidency. While his only duty spelled out in the Constitution is to preside over the Senate, he has taken on many other duties over time.

Incumbent

The current Vice-President is Joseph Biden, who took office on January 20, 2009, together with President Barack Obama. His predecessor was Richard Cheney, who served under President George Bush.

Election

Currently, the Vice-President is elected together with the President, each elector voting for one man for President and another for Vice-President. This system was mandated by the Twelfth Amendment, ratified in 1804.

Previously, each elector had voted for two different people for President, and the runner-up had become Vice-President. However, this system had broken down in the election of 1800, where Thomas Jefferson, the Democratic-Republican Presidential candidate, had tied with Aaron Burr, his running mate.

List of Vice Presidents

Vice Presidents have included some "remarkable individuals"[1]:

Vice President	Years	State	Party	President(s)
1. John Adams	1789-1797	Massachusetts	Federalist	Washington
2. Thomas Jefferson	1797-1801	Virginia	Democratic-Republican	Adams
3. Aaron Burr	1801-1805	New York	Democratic-Republican	Jefferson
4. George Clinton	1805-1812	New York	Democratic-Republican	Jefferson, Madison
5. Elbridge Gerry	1813-1814	Massachusetts	Democratic-Republican	Madison
6. Daniel D. Tompkins	1817-1825	New York	Democratic-Republican	Monroe
7. John C. Calhoun	1825-1832	South Carolina	Democratic-Republican, Democratic	Adams, Jackson
8. Martin van Buren	1833-1837	New York	Democratic	Jackson
9. Richard M. Johnson	1837-1841	Kentucky	Democratic	van Buren
10. John Tyler	1841	Virginia	Whig	Harrison
11. George Dallas	1845-1849	Pennsylvania	Democratic	Polk
12. Millard Fillmore	1849-1850	New York	Whig	Taylor
13. William King	1853	Alabama	Democratic	Pierce
14. John C. Breckinridge	1857-1861	Kentucky	Democratic	Buchanan
15. Hannibal Hamlin	1861-1865	Maine	Republican	Lincoln
16. Andrew Johnson	1865	Tennessee	Democratic	Lincoln
17. Schuyler Colfax	1869-1873	Indiana	Republican	Grant
18. Henry Wilson	1873-1875	Massachusetts	Republican	Grant
19. William Wheeler	1877-1881	New York	Republican	Hayes
20. Chester Arthur	1881	New York	Republican	Garfield
21. Thomas Hendricks	1885	Indiana	Democratic	Cleveland
22. Levi P. Morton	1889-1893	New York	Republican	Harrison
23. Adlai Stevenson	1893-1897	Illinois	Democratic	Cleveland
24. Garret Hobart	1897-1899	New Jersey	Republican	McKinley
25. Theodore Roosevelt	1901	New York	Republican	McKinley
26. Charles Fairbanks	1905-1909	Indiana	Republican	Roosevelt
27. James S. Sherman	1909-1912	New York	Republican	Taft
28. Thomas R. Marshall	1913-1921	Indiana	Democratic	Wilson
29. Calvin Coolidge	1921-1923	Massachusetts	Republican	Harding
30. Charles Dawes	1925-1929	Illinois	Republican	Coolidge
31. Charles Curtis	1929-1933	Kansas	Republican	Hoover
32. John Nance Garner	1933-1941	Texas	Democratic	Roosevelt
33. Henry Wallace	1941-1945	Iowa	Democratic	Roosevelt
34. Harry Truman	1945	Missouri	Democratic	Roosevelt
35. Alben Barkley	1949-1953	Kentucky	Democratic	Truman
36. Richard Nixon	1953-1961	California	Republican	Eisenhower
37. Lyndon Johnson	1961-1963	Texas	Democratic	Kennedy
38. Hubert Humphrey	1965-1969	Minnesota	Democratic	Johnson
39. Spiro Agnew	1969-1973	Maryland	Republican	Nixon
40. Gerald Ford	1973-1974	Michigan	Republican	Nixon
41. Nelson Rockefeller	1974-1977	New York	Republican	Ford
42. Walter Mondale	1977-1981	Minnesota	Democratic	Carter
43. George H. W. Bush	1981-1989	Texas	Republican	Reagan
44. Dan Quayle	1989-1993	Indiana	Republican	Bush
45. Al Gore	1993-2001	Tennessee	Democratic	Clinton
46. Dick Cheney	2001-2009	Wyoming	Republican	Bush
47. Joseph Biden	2009-	Delaware	Democratic	Obama