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U.S. Vice Presidents by Prior Government Offices

Can you name the 48 Vice Presidents by their background credentials?
Includes major government or political offices held prior to becoming VP
Military experience not included
Order is randomized
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Last updated: June 5, 2020
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Prior Offices
Vice President
Member of the U.S. House from SC-6; Secretary of War
John C. Calhoun
Judge in Jackson County, Missouri; U.S. Senator from Missouri
Harry S. Truman
Member of the U.S. House from CA-12; U.S. Senator from California
Richard Nixon
Executive of Baltimore County; Governor of Maryland
Spiro Agnew
Member of the U.S. House from IL-13; Assistant Postmaster General
Adlai Stevenson
Governor of New York
Daniel D. Tompkins
Attorney General of New York; U.S. Senator from New York
Aaron Burr
Delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia; Governor of Virginia; Delegate to the Congress of the Confederation; Minister Plenipotentiary; Minister to France; Secretary of State
Thomas Jefferson
Member of the Massachusetts House; Mayor of Northampton; Member of the Massachusetts Senate and President of the Massachusetts Senate; Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; Governor of Massachusetts
Calvin Coolidge
Member of the U.S. House from KY-4, KY-3, KY-5, KY-13; U.S. Senator from Kentucky
Richard Johnson
Member of the U.S. House from IN-2, IN-6; Governor of Indiana
Mike Pence
Member of the U.S. House from KS-4, KS-1; U.S. Senator from Kansas and Senate Majority Leader
Charles Curtis
Member of the U.S. House from ME-6; Governor of Maine; U.S. Senator from Maine
Hannibal Hamlin
Mayor of Minneapolis; U.S. Senator from Minnesota
Hubert Humphrey
Member of the U.S. House from IN-4; U.S. Senator from Indiana
Dan Quayle
Member of the U.S. House from MA-3; Governor of Massachusetts
Elbridge Gerry
Governor of Indiana
Thomas R. Marshall
Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs; Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; Special Assistant to the President for Foreign Affairs; Governor of New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Member of the New York State Assembly from Franklin County; Member of the New York Senate; Member of the U.S. House from NY-16, NY-17, NY-18, NY-19
William A. Wheeler
Surrogate of Columbia County; Member of the New York Senate; Attorney General of New York; U.S. Senator from New York; Governor of New York; Secretary of State; Minister to the United Kingdom
Martin Van Buren
Member of the New York State Assembly; President of the New York City Board of Police Commissioners; Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Governor of New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Member of the U.S. House from MI-5 and House Minority Leader
Gerald Ford
Member of the U.S. House from NY-11; Minister to France; Governor of New York
Levi P. Morton
Member of the New Casle County Council; U.S. Senator from Delaware
Joe Biden
Attorney General of Minnesota; U.S. Senator from Minnesota
Walter Mondale
Alderman, Greeneville; Mayor of Greeneville; Member of the U.S. House from TN-1; Governor of Tennessee; U.S. Senator from Tennessee; Military Governor of Tennessee
Andrew Johnson
Mayor of Utica; Member of the U.S. House from NY-23, NY-25, NY-27
James S. Sherman
Member of the U.S. House from KY-8
John C. Breckinridge
Comptroller of the Currency; Director of the Bureau of the Budget
Charles Dawes
White House Chief of Staff; Member of the U.S. House from WY-at-large; Secretary of Defense
Dick Cheney
Member of the U.S. House from TN-4, TN-6; U.S. Senator from Tennessee
Al Gore
Member of the U.S. House from VA-23; Governor of Virginia; U.S. Senator from Virginia and President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate
John Tyler
Member of the Massachusetts Senate and President of the Massachusetts Senate; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
Henry Wilson
Member of the North Carolina House of Commons; Member of the U.S. House from NC-5; Minister to France; U.S. Senator from Alabama and President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate
William R. King
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
Governor of New York
George Clinton
Member of the U.S. House from IN-9 and Speaker of the House
Schuyler Colfax
District Attorney of McCracken County; Member of the U.S. House from KY-1; U.S. Senator from Kentucky and Senate Majority Leader
Alben Barkley
U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; Mayor of Philadelphia; U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania; Attorney General of Pennsylvania; Minister to Russia; Minister to the United Kingdom
George M. Dallas
Member of the Texas House of Representatives; Member of the U.S. House from TX-15 and Speaker of the House
John Nance Garner
Collector of the Port of New York
Chester A. Arthur
Delegate to the Continental Congress from Massachusetts; Envoy to France; Minister to the Netherlands; Minister to the United Kingdom
John Adams
Member of the New Jersey General Assembly and Speaker of the General Assembly; Member of the New Jersey Senate and President of the New Jersey Senate
Garret Hobart
Member of the U.S. House from TX-10; U.S. Senator from Texas and Senate Majority Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson
Comptroller of New York; Member of the U.S. House from NY-32 and Chair of the Ways and Means Committee
Millard Fillmore
Member of the U.S. House from TX-7; Ambassador to the United Nations; Chair of the RNC; Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to China; Director of Central Intelligence; Vice President
George H.W. Bush
Member of the U.S. House from IN-5, IN-6; U.S. Senator from Indiana; Governor of Indiana
Thomas A. Hendricks
U.S. Senator from Indiana
Charles W. Fairbanks
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