lyndon B Johnson was the successor of President John F Kennedy.
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Lyndon Johnson was Kennedy's vice-president and assumed the presidency when Kennedy was killed.
Lyndon B. Johnson took over Kennedy's term after he was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald.
Calvin Coolidge (John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.) He took over the presidency when Warren Harding died on 2nd August 1923.
George Clinton was VP during Jefferson's second term .
Four presidents never had a vice president: John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson and Chester Arthur.Four other U.S. Presidents did not have Vice Presidents in their firstterm but had a vice-president in a second term: Theodore Roosevelt , Calvin Coolidge , Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson.Six other US presidents had their vice-president die or resign and so lacked a vice-president for the rest of that term : James Madison( 1st and 2nd terms),Andrew Jackson (1st term), Franklin Pierce (1st and only term), Ulysses Grant (2nd term) Grover Cleveland (1st term) and William McKinley ( 1st term).Pierce's vice-president, William R. D, King, died before he ever got to Washington, so Pierce in essence never had a vice-president.
George H.W. Bush was VP for both Reagan terms
If the VP dies first, the president would choose a new VP. If the president dies first,. the VP would become president and then would choose a new VP. If the president and VP both die at the same time, the Speaker of the House would become president and then he would choose a new VP.