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Joe Biden is the most recent vice president to be elected president.
Al Gore was the first vice president to win the popular vote in the general election, but not the electoral vote.
John Adams was the first vice president to run for president.
George H. W. Bush is the most recent incumbent vice president to be elected president
Richard Nixon was the first non-incumbent vice president to be elected president
Nineteen of the 48 vice presidents of the United States have attempted a run for the presidency after being elected vice president.[1] Six have been elected to the presidency, or over a third of running vice-presidents, while seven have lost the presidential election. Eleven have earned the primary nomination in their party, with most of them winning the presidency. Six unsuccessfully sought the presidential nomination of their party. Additionally, twelve vice presidents ran while they were in office. This list does not include incumbent and former presidents who were former vice presidents.
List of vice presidents who ran for president
Note: Vice Presidents with their numbers in bold won the presidency
Year
|
Vice President
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Popular vote (%)
|
Electoral college
|
Party
|
President
|
1796
|
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John Adams
|
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35,726 (53.4%)
|
71/138
|
Federalist
|
George Washington
|
1800
|
|
Thomas Jefferson
|
|
41,330 (61.4%)
|
73/138
|
Democratic-Republican
|
John Adams
|
1808
|
|
George Clinton
|
|
(did not win nomination)
|
(did not win nomination)
|
Democratic-Republican
|
Thomas Jefferson
|
1836
|
|
Martin Van Buren
|
|
764,176 (50.8%)
|
170/294
|
Democratic
|
Andrew Jackson
|
1860
|
|
John C. Breckinridge
|
|
848,019 (18.1%)
|
72/303
|
Southern Democratic
|
James Buchanan
|
1908
|
|
Charles W. Fairbanks
|
|
(did not receive nomination)
|
(did not receive nomination)
|
Republican
|
Theodore Roosevelt
|
1916
|
1920
|
|
Thomas R. Marshall
|
|
(did not receive nomination)
|
(did not receive nomination)
|
Democratic
|
Woodrow Wilson
|
1940
|
|
John Nance Garner
|
|
(did not receive nomination)
|
(did not receive nomination)
|
Democratic
|
Franklin D. Roosevelt
|
1948
|
|
Henry A. Wallace
|
|
1,157,328 (2.37%)
|
0/531
|
Progressive
|
1952
|
|
Alben W. Barkley
|
|
(did not receive nomination)
|
(did not receive nomination)
|
Democratic
|
Harry S. Truman
|
1960
|
|
Richard Nixon
|
|
34,108,157 (49.5%)
|
219/537
|
Republican
|
Dwight D. Eisenhower
|
1968
|
|
Hubert Humphrey
|
|
31,271,839 (42.7%)
|
191/538
|
Democratic
|
Lyndon B. Johnson
|
|
Richard Nixon
|
|
31,783,783 (43.4%)
|
301/538
|
Republican
|
Dwight D. Eisenhower
|
1972
|
|
Hubert Humphrey
|
|
(did not receive nomination)
|
(did not receive nomination)
|
Democratic
|
Lyndon B. Johnson
|
1984
|
|
Walter Mondale
|
|
37,577,352 (40.6%)
|
13/538
|
Democratic
|
Jimmy Carter
|
1988
|
|
George H. W. Bush
|
|
48,886,597 (53.4%)
|
426/538
|
Republican
|
Ronald Reagan
|
2000
|
|
Dan Quayle
|
|
(did not receive nomination)
|
(did not receive nomination)
|
Republican
|
George H. W. Bush
|
|
Al Gore
|
|
50,999,897 (48.4%)
|
266/538
|
Democratic
|
Bill Clinton
|
2020
|
|
Joe Biden
|
|
81,282,376 (51.3%)
|
306/538
|
Democratic
|
Barack Obama
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