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Vice President of the United States, the second-highest ranking official in the U.S. government. The PRESIDENT and vice president are the only nationally elected officials. If the president dies, resigns, or is removed from office, the vice president succeeds him. In addition, the vice president may serve temporarily as acting president if the president, for whatever reason, is unable to discharge the duties of the office. Like the president, the vice president must be at least 35 years old.

The CONSTITUTION of the United States prescribes only one duty for the vice president. He is the president, or presiding officer, of the U.S. SENATE, and if a Senate vote ends in a tie the vice president may vote to break the tie. The vice president has been assigned other duties by statute, and the president may give him other responsibilities. The importance of the vice president derives almost entirely from the fact that at any moment he may succeed to the most powerful office in the world.

Subcategories

• Adams, John
• Agnew, Spiro Theodore
• Barkley, Alben William
• Biden, Joe
• Breckinridge, John Cabell
• Burr, Aaron
• Bush, George Herbert Walker
• Calhoun, John Caldwell
• Cheney, Richard Bruce
• Clinton, George
• Colfax, Schuyler
• Coolidge, John Calvin
• Curtis, Charles
• Dallas, George Mifflin
• Dawes, Charles Gates
• Fairbanks, Charles Warren
• Garner, John Nance
• Gerry, Elbridge
• Gore, Albert Arnold, Jr.
• Hamlin, Hannibal
• Hendricks, Thomas Andrews
• Hobart, Garret Augustus
• Humphrey, Hubert Horatio
• Johnson, Andrew
• Johnson, Lyndon Baines
• Johnson, Richard Mentor
• King, William Rufus de Vane
• Marshall, Thomas Riley
• Mondale, Walter Frederick
• Morton, Levi Parsons
• Nixon, Richard Milhous
• Office of the Vice President
• Quayle, James Danforth
• Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich
• Roosevelt, Theodore
• Sherman, James Schoolcraft
• Stevenson, Adlai Ewing
• Tompkins, Daniel Duane
• Truman, Harry S
• Wallace, Henry Agard
• Wheeler, William Almon
• Wilson, Henry

Resources in This Category

• The Vice Presidents of the United States

  http://www.angelfire.com/az/theredbadge/vps.html
  Brief facts about each Vice President, with links to relevant sites.

• Vice President of the United States

  http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Vice_President.htm
  US Senate Historical Office's compendium of information about the office and the people who have held it.

• Vice Presidents of the United States

  http://www.vicepresidents.com/
  Biographies, stories, links to sites, papers, bookstore, research and commentary on the vice presidents of the United States.

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