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Has any Vice President become President?

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Nine have done it based on succession on the death or resignation of the President:

John Tyler - Harrison died in office

Millard Fillmore - Taylor died in office

Andrew Johnson - Lincoln was assassinated

Chester Arthur - Garfield was assassinated

Theodore Roosevelt - McKinley was assassinated

Calvin Coolidge - Harding died in office

Harry Truman - Roosevelt died in office

Lyndon B Johnson - Kennedy was assassinated.

Gerald Ford - Nixon Resigned

And then there were those elected after serving as Vice President:

John Adams

Thomas Jefferson

Martin Van Buren

Richard Nixon

George H. W. Bush

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