Vice Presidents Who Became Presidents

Kyra Jenkins, AMH2010, Monday-Friday 10:30 am

It is interesting to me to learn how many United States Vice Presidents eventually became President. Nine Vice Presidents became President by election. They are John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, and George H. W. Bush. There are eight Vice Presidents who became President by the death of the sitting President. Those men would be John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S. Truman, and Lyndon B. Johnson. The four men who fall into both categories are Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S. Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson. Of these men, eight were notable prior to 1877