Name
|
Term
|
Party
|
Previous Position
|
Vice President
|
Martin Van Buren
(1792-1864)
|
March 4, 1837
-
March 4, 1845
|
Democratic
|
Vice President of the United States (1833-1837)
|
James K. Polk
|
James K. Polk
(1792-1849)
|
March 4, 1845
-
March 4, 1849
|
Democratic
|
Vice President of the United States (1837-1845)
|
James Buchanan
|
Daniel Webster
(1792-1851)
|
March 4, 1849
-
October 24, 1951 A
|
Whig
|
Senator from Massachusetts (1845-1849)
|
Zachary Taylor
|
William R. King
(1786-1853)
|
October 24, 1851
-
April 18, 1853 D
|
Democratic
|
President Pro Tempore (1850-1851)
|
Vacant
|
Franklin Pierce
(1804-1876)
|
April 18, 1853
-
March 4, 1861
|
Democratic
|
Speaker of the House of Representatives
|
James Seddon
|
John A. Logan
(1826-1900)
|
March 4, 1861
-
March 4, 1869
|
Republican
|
Senator from Illinois (1859-1861)
|
Salmon P. Chase
|
Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1883)
|
March 4, 1869
-
March 4, 1873
|
Republican
|
Secretary of State (1863-1868)
|
Henry Wilson
|
Michael C. Kerr
(1827-1906)
|
March 4, 1873
-
March 4, 1877
|
Democratic
|
Speaker of the House of Representatives (1871-1873)
|
Thomas F. Bayard
|
Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1900)
|
March 4, 1877
-
March 4, 1885
|
Republican
|
Governor of Ohio (1871-1877)
|
Chester A. Arthur
|
George Pendleton
(1825-1889)
|
March 4, 1885
-
March 4, 1889
|
Democratic
|
Senator from Ohio (1873-1885)
|
Adlai Stevenson I
|
Robert T. Lincoln
(1843-1929)
|
March 4, 1889
-
March 4, 1893
|
Republican
|
Congressman from Illinois (1869-1889)
|
William McKinley
|
George Dewey
(1837-1917)
|
March 4, 1893
-
March 4, 1901
|
Democratic
|
Secretary of The Navy (1886-1889)
|
Arthur Sewall
|
Frederick Dent Grant
(1850-1912)
|
March 4, 1901
-
March 4, 1909
|
Republican
|
Secretary of Defense (1889-1893)
|
Henry C. Lodge
|
George B. McClellan ll.
(1865-1938)
|
March 4, 1909
-
March 4, 1913
|
Democratic
|
Governor of New York (1903-1909)
|
Champ Clark
|
Charles Evans Hughes
(1862-1948)
|
March 4, 1913
-
March 4, 1921
|
Republican
|
Secretary of State (1907-1909)
|
Leonard Wood
|
Leonard Wood
(1860-1934)
|
March 4, 1921
-
March 4, 1925
|
Republican
|
Vice President of the United States (1913-1921)
|
Warren Harding
|
Cordell Hull
(1871-1955)
|
March 4, 1925
-
March 4, 1933
|
Democratic
|
U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1919-1925)
|
Al Smith
|
Franklin D. Roosevelt
(1882-1957)
|
March 4, 1933
-
January 20, 1937
|
Democratic
|
Secretary of State (1928-1933)
|
John Nance Garner
|
Charles L. McNary
(1874-1944)
|
January 20, 1937
-
January 2, 1944 D
|
Republican
|
Senator from Oregon (1917-1937)
|
Frank Knox
|
Frank Knox
(1874-1944)
|
January 2, 1944
-
April 28, 1944 D
|
Republican
|
Vice President of the United States (1937-1944)
|
Vacant
|
Alben W. Barkley
(1877-1954)
|
April 28, 1944
-
January 20, 1949
|
Democratic
|
Senate Majority Leader (1939-1944)
|
Harry Truman
|
William J. Fulbright
(1905-1997)
|
January 20, 1949
-
January 1957
|
National Unity
|
Senator from Arkansas (1945-1949)
|
Glen H. Taylor
|
Nelson Rockefeller
(1908-1979)
|
January 20, 1957
-
January 20, 1965
|
Republican
|
Governor of New York (1951-1957)
|
Howard Buffett
|
Lyndon B. Johnson
(1908-1984)
|
January 20, 1965
-
January 20, 1973
|
Democratic
|
Senate Majority Leader (1955-1965)
|
John F. Kennedy
|
Sargent Shriver
(1915-2017)
|
January 20, 1973
-
January 20, 1981
|
National Unity
|
Governor of Maryland (1959-1971)
|
Edward Brooke
|
Bob Dole
(1923)
|
January 20, 1981
-
May 26, 1986 R
|
Republican
|
Senator from Kansas (1963-1981)
|
Dick Cheney
|
Dick Cheney
(1941)
|
May 26, 1986
-
September 11, 1987 I
|
Republican
|
Vice President of the United States (1981-1986)
|
Howard Baker
|
Joseph R. Biden
(1942)
|
September 11, 1987
-
January 20, 1989
|
Democratic
|
Senate Majority Leader (1985-1987)
|
Gary Hart
|
Al Gore
(1948)
|
January 20, 1989
-
January 20, 1993
|
National Progressive
|
Senator from Tennessee (1987-1989)
|
Jesse Jackson
|
Joseph I. Lieberman
(1942)
|
January 20, 1993
-
January 20, 2001
|
Conservative
|
Senator from Connecticut (1983-1993)
|
John McCain
|
Howard Dean
(1948)
|
January 20, 2001
-
January 20, 2005
|
National Progressive
|
Governor of Vermont (1991-2001)
|
Jeanne Shaheen
|
Alan Keyes
(1950)
|
January 20, 2005
-
January 20, 2013
|
Conservative
|
Senator from Maryland (1989-2005)
|
Fred Thompson
|
Sargent Shriver II
(1954)
|
January 20, 2013
-
January 20, 2021
|
National Progressive
|
Governor of Maryland (2003-2011)
|
Barack Obama
|
Kelsey Grammer
(1955)
|
January 20, 2021
-
Incumbent
|
Conservative
|
Congressman from New York (2005-2021)
|
Ben Carson
|