Lincoln joined forces with the war democrats, and selected a member of their party - Andrew Johnson of Tennessee - to replace Hamlin on the ticket.
This move by Lincoln had a profound affect on the course of American history: Hamlin's term ended in March, , less than two months before Lincoln was assassinated.
Aaron Burr, Jr. Burr was the third vice president of the United States, serving under Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson did not select Burr as a running mate, the two men were nominated together by their party - the democratic republicans - and it was understood that Jefferson was to be president, Burr was to be vice president. However, the two men ended up receiving the same number of electoral votes initially, and Burr refused to concede.
The election was ultimately decided by the House of Representatives, where Jefferson of course came out the winner, but the whole debacle certainly did not start the two men off on great footing. Jefferson never trusted Burr, and when Jefferson ran for reelection in , he did not ask Burr to join him. Featured Search Historical Highlights of the House. Learn about Foreign Leader Addresses. Featured Search the People of the House.
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Office of the Historian: history mail. Thomas Jefferson. Elbridge Gerry 2. James Monroe. Daniel D. John Quincy Adams. John C. Andrew Jackson. Calhoun 3. William Henry Harrison 4. John Tyler. Millard Fillmore. Franklin Pierce. William R. King 5. James Buchanan. Abraham Lincoln. Hannibal Hamlin. Andrew Johnson. Schuyler Colfax. William A. Garfield 4. Thomas A. Hendricks 7. Levi P. Adlai E. William McKinley. Garret A. Hobart 8. Roosevelt, elected to his first of four terms in , invited all three of his vice presidents to cabinet-level meetings, a then unprecedented move.
President Dwight D. So he made sure his vice president, Richard Nixon, was intimately involved in executive life. Eisenhower included Nixon in meetings and gave him important assignments, like a lengthy trip to Asia and critical civil rights legislation. In part because of his ill health, Eisenhower made arrangements for Nixon to be fully responsible for the presidential role should he become incapacitated.
By the s, it was clear Congress would need to clear up the vague role of vice president. Kennedy, was assassinated, which left the role of vice president vacant for months after Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency. In response, Congress passed the 25th Amendment, which lays out a procedure for procuring a replacement vice president and resolved, once and for all, that if a president dies or becomes incapacitated the vice president becomes president instead of simply taking over the duties.
Do you know all of these presidential fast facts? Recent history has turned the selection of a potential vice president into a predictably press-friendly event. In , Democratic nominee George McGovern had been turned down by multiple would-be vice presidentVPs, and his eventual pick, Thomas Eagleton, quit the race after news reports revealed he had received electroshock therapy during a psychiatric hospitalization. These theatrics were a PR coup that has been repeated by other campaigns since.
In the s George H. Bush was tasked with forming vital relationships with heads of state and international dignitaries. Other vice presidents focused on creating policy. Under President Bill Clinton, Al Gore was a powerful advocate for the environment and brokered a last-minute agreement in Kyoto, pledging reduced emissions on the part of the United States. Legislators never ratified the treaty in the U. Richard Cheney was seen as reinventing the vice presidency by taking on a greater role in President George W.
Vice presidents also still attempt to use the role as a springboard to the presidency—though the last to succeed was George H. Bush in The vice presidency has long been what the officeholder is willing to make of it. And though little is certain in politics, the office is sure to continue to evolve alongside the republic the vice president serves.
All rights reserved. Erosion on land is responsible for the saltiness of ocean water, says Nancy Knowlton, Sant Chair for Marine Science and invertebrate zoology staff at the National Museum of Natural History. Slightly acidic rain erodes rocks and soil, and the resulting salts, such as sodium and chloride, and minerals are carried in the runoff to streams, rivers and eventually to oceans. It's your turn to Ask Smithsonian. Ask Smithsonian A Smithsonian magazine special report.
Richard Allen When did the position of vice president of the United States stop going to the runner-up in the presidential election and become a separately elected office?
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