List of United States vice presidential firsts

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This list covers the historical firsts of vice presidents of the United States.

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John Adams (1789–1797)

John Adams, the first vice president and the first to become president. Official Presidential portrait of John Adams (by John Trumbull, circa 1792).jpg
John Adams, the first vice president and the first to become president.

Thomas Jefferson (1797–1801)

Aaron Burr (1801–1805)

George Clinton (1805–1812)

Elbridge Gerry (1813–1814)

Daniel D. Tompkins (1817–1825)

John C. Calhoun (1825–1832)

Martin Van Buren (1833–1837)

Richard M. Johnson (1837–1841)

John Tyler (1841)

George M. Dallas (1845–1849)

Millard Fillmore (1849–1850)

William R. King (1853)

John C. Breckinridge (1857–1861)

Hannibal Hamlin (1861–1865)

Andrew Johnson (1865)

Schuyler Colfax (1869–1873)

Henry Wilson (1873–1875)

William A. Wheeler (1877–1881)

Chester A. Arthur (1881)

Thomas A. Hendricks (1885)

Levi P. Morton (1889–1893)

Adlai Stevenson I (1893–1897)

Garret Hobart (1897–1899)

Theodore Roosevelt (1901)

Charles W. Fairbanks (1905–1909)

James S. Sherman (1909–1912)

Thomas R. Marshall (1913–1921)

Calvin Coolidge (1921–1923)

Charles G. Dawes (1925–1929)

Charles Curtis (1929–1933)

John Nance Garner (1933–1941)

Henry A. Wallace (1941–1945)

Harry S. Truman (1945)

Alben W. Barkley (1949–1953)

Richard Nixon (1953–1961)

Lyndon B. Johnson (1961–1963)

Hubert Humphrey (1965–1969)

Spiro Agnew (1969–1973)

Gerald Ford (1973–1974)

Nelson Rockefeller (1974–1977)

Walter Mondale (1977–1981)

George H.W. Bush (1981–1989)

Dan Quayle (1989–1993)

Al Gore (1993–2001)

Dick Cheney (2001–2009)

Joe Biden (2009–2017)

Mike Pence (2017–2021)

Kamala Harris (2021–present)

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  1. Jefferson was Governor of Virginia from 1779 to 1781.
  2. Garner was inaugurated for his first term on March 4, 1933. He was sworn in for a second term as vice president on January 20, 1937, the first time a presidential or vice presidential inauguration took place on January 20th.
  3. Nixon was born in 1913 and took office in 1953. But his three successors were older than him, the oldest of them being Nelson Rockefeller, who was born on July 8th 1908, and thus is the earliest-born president of the 20th century.