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Most vice presidents of the United States have undergone higher education at an American university, college or law school.
No. |
Image |
Name
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Home state
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Took office
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Left office
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Party
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School
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President(s)
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Ref
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1 |
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John Adams |
Massachusetts |
April 21, 1789 |
March 4, 1797 |
Federalist |
Harvard College |
George Washington |
[1]
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2 |
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Thomas Jefferson |
Virginia |
March 4, 1797 |
March 4, 1801 |
Democratic-Republican |
College of William & Mary |
John Adams |
[2]
|
3 |
|
Aaron Burr |
New York |
March 4, 1801 |
March 4, 1805 |
Democratic-Republican |
Princeton |
Jefferson |
[3]
|
4 |
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George Clinton |
New York |
March 4, 1805 |
April 20, 1812 |
Democratic-Republican |
Studied law with William Smith |
Jefferson/ Madison |
[4]
|
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|
zVacant |
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April 20, 1812 |
March 4, 1813 |
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Madison |
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5 |
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Elbridge Gerry |
Massachusetts |
March 4, 1813 |
November 23, 1814 |
Democratic-Republican |
Harvard College |
Madison |
[5]
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|
|
zVacant |
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November 23, 1814 |
March 4, 1817 |
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Madison |
|
6 |
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Daniel D. Tompkins |
New York |
March 4, 1817 |
March 4, 1825 |
Democratic-Republican |
Columbia |
Monroe |
[6]
|
7 |
|
John C. Calhoun |
South Carolina |
March 4, 1825 |
December 28, 1832 |
Democratic-Republican/ Democratic |
Yale |
J. Q. Adams/ Jackson |
[7]
|
|
|
zVacant |
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December 28, 1832 |
March 4, 1833 |
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|
Jackson |
|
8 |
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Martin Van Buren |
New York |
March 4, 1833 |
March 4, 1837 |
Democratic |
Kinderhook Academy and Washington Seminary studied law with Peter Silvester, Francis Sylvester and William P. Van Ness |
Jackson |
[8]
|
9 |
|
Richard Mentor Johnson |
Kentucky |
March 4, 1837 |
March 4, 1841 |
Democratic |
Transylvania University |
Van Buren |
[9]
|
10 |
|
John Tyler |
Virginia |
March 4, 1841 |
April 4, 1841 |
Whig |
College of William & Mary |
W. Harrison |
[10]
|
|
|
zVacant |
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April 4, 1841 |
March 4, 1845 |
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Tyler |
|
11 |
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George M. Dallas |
Pennsylvania |
March 4, 1845 |
March 4, 1849 |
Democratic |
Princeton University |
Polk |
[11]
|
12 |
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Millard Fillmore |
New York |
March 4, 1849 |
July 9, 1850 |
Whig |
New Hope Academy, studied law with Judge Walter Wood, Cayuga County, New York |
Taylor |
[12]
|
|
|
zVacant |
|
July 9, 1850 |
March 4, 1853 |
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Fillmore |
|
13 |
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William R. King |
Alabama |
March 4, 1853 |
April 18, 1853 |
Democratic |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Pierce |
[13]
|
|
|
zVacant |
|
April 18, 1853 |
March 4, 1857 |
|
|
Pierce |
|
14 |
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John C. Breckinridge |
Kentucky |
March 4, 1857 |
March 4, 1861 |
Democratic |
Centre College, Princeton University, Transylvania University |
Buchanan |
[14]
|
15 |
|
Hannibal Hamlin |
Maine |
March 4, 1861 |
March 4, 1865 |
Republican |
Hebron Academy, Studied law at the firm of Samuel Fessenden |
Lincoln |
[15]
|
16 |
|
Andrew Johnson |
Tennessee |
March 4, 1865 |
April 15, 1865 |
Democratic |
None (Self-taught and received instruction from his wife, Eliza McCardle Johnson) |
Lincoln |
[16]
|
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zVacant |
|
April 15, 1865 |
March 4, 1869 |
|
|
A. Johnson |
|
17 |
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Schuyler Colfax |
Indiana |
March 4, 1869 |
March 4, 1873 |
Republican |
Common schools of New York City and New Carlisle, Indiana |
Grant |
[17]
|
18 |
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Henry Wilson |
Massachusetts |
March 4, 1873 |
November 22, 1875 |
Republican |
Academies in Strafford, Wolfeboro, and Concord, New Hampshire |
Grant |
[18]
|
|
|
zVacant |
|
November 22, 1875 |
March 4, 1877 |
|
|
Grant |
|
19 |
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William A. Wheeler |
New York |
March 4, 1877 |
March 4, 1881 |
Republican |
University of Vermont |
Hayes |
[19]
|
20 |
|
Chester A. Arthur |
New York |
March 4, 1881 |
September 19, 1881 |
Republican |
Union College, State and National Law School |
Garfield |
[20]
|
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|
zVacant |
|
September 19, 1881 |
March 4, 1885 |
|
|
Arthur |
|
21 |
|
Thomas A. Hendricks |
Indiana |
March 4, 1885 |
November 25, 1885 |
Democratic |
Hanover College |
Cleveland |
[21]
|
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|
zVacant |
|
November 25, 1885 |
March 4, 1889 |
|
|
Cleveland |
|
22 |
|
Levi P. Morton |
New York |
March 4, 1889 |
March 4, 1893 |
Republican |
Shoreham Academy, Shoreham, Vermont |
B. Harrison |
[22]
|
23 |
|
Adlai E. Stevenson |
Illinois |
March 4, 1893 |
March 4, 1897 |
Democratic |
Illinois Wesleyan University, Centre College |
Cleveland |
[23]
|
24 |
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Garret Hobart |
New Jersey |
March 4, 1897 |
November 21, 1899 |
Republican |
Rutgers College |
McKinley |
[24]
|
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|
zVacant |
|
November 21, 1899 |
March 4, 1901 |
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|
McKinley |
|
25 |
|
Theodore Roosevelt |
New York |
March 4, 1901 |
September 14, 1901 |
Republican |
Harvard College, Columbia Law School (did not graduate) |
McKinley |
[25]
|
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|
zVacant |
|
September 14, 1901 |
March 4, 1905 |
|
|
T. Roosevelt |
|
26 |
|
Charles W. Fairbanks |
Indiana |
March 4, 1905 |
March 4, 1909 |
Republican |
Ohio Wesleyan University |
T. Roosevelt |
[26]
|
27 |
|
James S. Sherman |
New York |
March 4, 1909 |
October 30, 1912 |
Republican |
Hamilton College |
Taft |
[27]
|
|
|
zVacant |
|
October 30, 1912 |
March 4, 1913 |
|
|
Taft |
|
28 |
|
Thomas R. Marshall |
Indiana |
March 4, 1913 |
March 4, 1921 |
Democratic |
Wabash College |
Wilson |
[28]
|
29 |
|
Calvin Coolidge |
Massachusetts |
March 4, 1921 |
August 2, 1923 |
Republican |
Amherst College |
Harding |
[29]
|
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|
zVacant |
|
August 2, 1923 |
March 4, 1925 |
|
|
Coolidge |
|
30 |
|
Charles G. Dawes |
Illinois |
March 4, 1925 |
March 4, 1929 |
Republican |
Marietta College, University of Cincinnati College of Law |
Coolidge |
[30]
|
31 |
|
Charles Curtis |
Kansas |
March 4, 1929 |
March 4, 1933 |
Republican |
Topeka High School, studied law with Aderial H. Case |
Hoover |
[31]
|
32 |
|
John Nance Garner |
Texas |
March 4, 1933 |
January 20, 1941 |
Democratic |
Vanderbilt University |
F. Roosevelt |
[32]
|
33 |
|
Henry A. Wallace |
Iowa |
January 20, 1941 |
January 20, 1945 |
Democratic |
Iowa State University |
F. Roosevelt |
[33]
|
34 |
|
Harry S. Truman |
Missouri |
January 20, 1945 |
April 12, 1945 |
Democratic |
Spalding's Commercial College (did not graduate) Kansas City Law School (did not graduate) |
F. Roosevelt |
[34]
|
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|
zVacant |
|
April 12, 1945 |
January 20, 1949 |
|
|
Truman |
|
35 |
|
Alben W. Barkley |
Kentucky |
January 20, 1949 |
January 20, 1953 |
Democratic |
Marvin College, Emory University, University of Virginia School of Law |
Truman |
[35]
|
36 |
|
Richard Nixon |
California |
January 20, 1953 |
January 20, 1961 |
Republican |
Whittier College, Duke University School of Law |
Eisenhower |
[36]
|
37 |
|
Lyndon B. Johnson |
Texas |
January 20, 1961 |
November 22, 1963 |
Democratic |
Southwest Texas State Teachers College, Georgetown University Law Center (did not graduate) |
Kennedy |
[37]
|
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|
zVacant |
|
November 22, 1963 |
January 20, 1965 |
|
|
L. Johnson |
|
38 |
|
Hubert Humphrey |
Minnesota |
January 20, 1965 |
January 20, 1969 |
Democratic |
University of Minnesota, Louisiana State University, Capitol College of Pharmacy |
L. Johnson |
[38]
|
39 |
|
Spiro Agnew |
Maryland |
January 20, 1969 |
October 10, 1973 |
Republican |
Johns Hopkins University, University of Baltimore School of Law |
Nixon |
[39]
|
|
|
zVacant |
|
October 10, 1973 |
December 6, 1973 |
|
|
Nixon |
|
40 |
|
Gerald Ford |
Michigan |
December 6, 1973 |
August 9, 1974 |
Republican |
University of Michigan, Yale Law School |
Nixon |
[40]
|
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zVacant |
|
August 9, 1974 |
December 19, 1974 |
|
|
Ford |
|
41 |
|
Nelson Rockefeller |
New York |
December 19, 1974 |
January 20, 1977 |
Republican |
Dartmouth College |
Ford |
[41]
|
42 |
|
Walter Mondale |
Minnesota |
January 20, 1977 |
January 20, 1981 |
Democratic |
Macalester College, University of Minnesota |
Carter |
[42]
|
43 |
|
George H. W. Bush |
Texas |
January 20, 1981 |
January 20, 1989 |
Republican |
Yale |
Reagan |
[43]
|
44 |
|
Dan Quayle |
Indiana |
January 20, 1989 |
January 20, 1993 |
Republican |
DePauw University, Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis (J.D.) |
G. H. W. Bush |
[44]
|
45 |
|
Al Gore |
Tennessee |
January 20, 1993 |
January 20, 2001 |
Democratic |
Harvard University, Vanderbilt University |
Clinton |
[45]
|
46 |
|
Dick Cheney |
Wyoming |
January 20, 2001 |
January 20, 2009 |
Republican |
University of Wyoming |
G. W. Bush |
[46]
|
47 |
|
Joe Biden |
Delaware |
January 20, 2009 |
January 20, 2017 |
Democratic |
University of Delaware, Syracuse University College of Law (J.D.) |
Obama |
[47]
|
48 |
|
Mike Pence |
Indiana |
January 20, 2017 |
January 20, 2021 |
Republican |
Hanover College, Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis (J.D.) |
Trump |
[48]
|
49 |
|
Kamala Harris |
California |
January 20, 2021 |
Incumbent |
Democratic |
Howard University, University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D.) |
Biden |
[49]
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