List of Vice Presidents of the United States by time in office

This is a list of Vice President of the United States by time in office. The basis of the list is the difference between dates; if counted by number of calendar days all the figures would be one greater.

Since 1789, there have been 47 people sworn into office as Vice President of the United States. Of these, nine succeeded to the presidency during their term, seven died while in office, and two resigned. Since the adoption of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution (February 10, 1967), when there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President nominates a successor who takes office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.

Vice Presidents by time in office

Rank	Vice President	Length in days	OVP	General details
1 tie	Daniel D. Tompkins	2,922	6	Served two full terms.
	Thomas R. Marshall	2,922	28	Served two full terms.
	Richard Nixon	2,922	36	Served two full terms.
	George H. W. Bush	2,922	43	Served two full terms.
	Al Gore	2,922[lower-alpha 1]	45	Served two full terms.
	Dick Cheney	2,922	46	Served two full terms.
7	John Nance Garner	2,879[lower-alpha 2]	32	Served two full terms.
8	Joe Biden	2,878	47	Incumbent, serving his second term of office.
8	John Adams	2,874[lower-alpha 3]	1	Served two full terms.
10	John C. Calhoun	2,856	7	Served one full term, under President John Quincy Adams. Resigned 3 years, 9 months and 24 days into his second (consecutive) term, this one under President Andrew Jackson.
11	George Clinton	2,604	4	Served one full term, under President Thomas Jefferson. Died 3 years, 1 month and 16 days into his second (consecutive) term, this one under President James Madison.
12	Spiro Agnew	1,724	39	Served one full term. Resigned 8 months and 20 days into his second term.
13 tie	Aaron Burr	1,461	3	Served one full term.
	Martin Van Buren	1,461	8	Served one full term.
	Richard Johnson	1,461	9	Served one full term.
	George M. Dallas	1,461	11	Served one full term.
	John C. Breckinridge	1,461	14	Served one full term.
	Hannibal Hamlin	1,461	15	Served one full term.
	Schuyler Colfax	1,461	17	Served one full term.
	William A. Wheeler	1,461	19	Served one full term.
	Levi P. Morton	1,461	22	Served one full term.
	Adlai E. Stevenson	1,461	23	Served one full term.
	Charles W. Fairbanks	1,461	26	Served one full term.
	Charles G. Dawes	1,461	30	Served one full term.
	Charles Curtis	1,461	31	Served one full term.
	Henry A. Wallace	1,461	33	Served one full term.
	Alben W. Barkley	1,461	35	Served one full term.
	Hubert Humphrey	1,461	38	Served one full term.
	Walter Mondale	1,461	42	Served one full term.
	Dan Quayle	1,461	44	Served one full term.
31	Thomas Jefferson	1,460[lower-alpha 1]	2	Served one full term.
32	James S. Sherman	1,336	27	Died in office.
33	Lyndon B. Johnson	1,036	37	Succeeded to the presidency upon the death of John F. Kennedy.
34	Henry Wilson	993	18	Died in office.
35	Garret Hobart	992[lower-alpha 1]	24	Died in office.
36	Calvin Coolidge	881	29	Succeeded to the presidency upon the death of Warren G. Harding.
37	Nelson Rockefeller	763	41	Selected to succeed Vice President Gerald Ford.
38	Elbridge Gerry	629	5	Died in office.
39	Millard Fillmore	492	12	Succeeded to presidency upon the death of Zachary Taylor.
40	Thomas A. Hendricks	881	21	Died in office.
41	Gerald Ford	246	40	Selected to succeed Vice President Spiro Agnew, and subsequently succeeded to the presidency upon the resignation of Richard Nixon.
42	Chester A. Arthur	199	20	Succeeded to the presidency upon the death of James A. Garfield.
43	Theodore Roosevelt	194	25	Succeeded to the presidency upon the death of William McKinley.
44	Harry S. Truman	82	34	Succeeded to the presidency upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
45	William R. King	45	13	Died in office.
46	Andrew Johnson	42	16	Succeeded to the presidency upon the death of Abraham Lincoln.
47	John Tyler	31	10	Succeeded to the presidency upon the death of William Henry Harrison.

Notes

1. Of years evenly divisible by 100, only those evenly divisible by 400 are leap years. The years 1800 and 1900 are divisible by 100, but not by 400. as a result, the term of both Thomas Jefferson (1797–1801) and Garret Hobart (1897–1901) did not include a 366-day leap year, and so were one day shorter than a normal full term. The year 2000 is divisible by 400 and so did include one, thus Al Gore's second term (1997–2001) was not shorter than his first.
2. The 20th Amendment (ratified January 23, 1933) moved Inauguration Day from March 4 to January 20. The 1937 presidential inauguration was the first to take place on the new date. As a result, John Nance Garner's first term in office (1933–1937) was only 1,418 days long, 1 month and 12 days shorter than a normal term.
3. Due to logistical delays, John Adams assumed the office of Vice President 1 month and 17 days after the March 4, 1789 scheduled start of operations of the new government under the Constitution. As a result, his first term (1789–1793) was only 1,413 days long, and was the shortest term for a U.S. vice president who neither died in office nor resigned.

See also

• Acting President of the United States
• Acting Vice President of the United States

References