14 vice-presidents later became president.
Vice Presidents Who Have Served As President:
A total of 14 US Vice Presidents later became President, either by succession or election. One Vice President was elected President 8 years after being Vice President. One Vice President became President through the resignation of the President.
5 Vice Presidents elected to the Presidency:
John Adams - 1st Vice President
Thomas Jefferson - 2nd Vice president
Martin Van Buren - 8th Vice President
Richard M. Nixon - 36th Vice President
George H.W. Bush - 43rd Vice President
8 Vice Presidents succeeding on the death of the President:
John Tyler - 10th Vice President (succeeded William Henry Harrison)
Millard Fillmore - 12th Vice President (succeeded Zachary Taylor)
Andrew Johnson - 16th Vice President (succeeded Abraham Lincoln)
Chester A. Arthur - 20th Vice President (succeeded James Garfield)
Theodore Roosevelt - 25th Vice President (succeeded William McKinley)
Calvin Coolidge - 29th Vice President (succeeded Warren G. Harding)
Harry S. Truman - 34th Vice President (succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Lyndon B. Johnson - 37th Vice president (succeeded John F. Kennedy)
1 Vice President succeeding on the resignation of the President:
Gerald R. Ford - 40th Vice President (succeeded Richard Nixon)
14 presidents served as vice president before becoming president
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14 - nine were vice-presidents that became president when the president died or resigned, and five served out their full terms as elected vice-president, then ran for president and won.
Richard M. Nixon
Two vice presidents from Minnesota are Hubert H. Humphrey, who served as vice president under President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1965 to 1969, and Walter Mondale, who served as vice president under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.
During Thomas Jefferson's first term, the Vice President was Aaron Burr. Jefferson's second term as President was George Clinton's first term as Vice President (Clinton was one of the two U.S. Vice Presidents who served under two Presidents).
Jerald Ford
Certainly! There are many Vice-Presidents that have served as President, both because of the death of a president and because they were elected.
As of 2009, Joseph Biden is the 47th US Vice President. Some Presidents have had more than one Vice President, , two vice presidents have served under more than one president (George Clinton and John C. Calhoun) and four (Tyler, Fillmore, A. Johnson, and Arthur) had no Vice President during their successions.
This question first appeared in the "US Presidents" category, but it is doubtful that is where it belongs. No US vice president has ever been elected to an office in India. As far as vice presidents of India are concerned, 7 men who served as Vice President of India later became President or Acting President (one of the was both an Acting President and then later the elected President): Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan served as vice president under the first president of India, Rajendra Prasad and was elected as India's second president after Radhakrishnan retired. Zakir Hussain served as vice president under Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and was elected president when Radhakrishnan left office. Varahagiri Venkata Giri served as vice president under Zakir Hussain and was appointed acting president upon Husain's death. He resigned the office a few months later to take part in the presidential elections and was elected president 2 months later. Basappa Danappa Jatti was the vice president of India during President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed's term of office, and was sworn in as acting president upon Ahmed's death. Ramaswamy Venkataraman served as vice president under President Giani Zail Singh and was subsequently elected as the next president after Singh. Shankar Dayal Sharma served as vice president under President Ramaswamy Venkataraman and was subsequently elected as the next president after Venkataraman. Kocheril Raman Narayanan served as vice president under President Shankar Dayal Sharmaand was subsequently elected as the next president after Sharma.
The presidents were Franklin Delano Roosevelt who was succeded by vice president Harry Truman