Which US presidents did not have a vice president?

Answer 1

A total of 17 US Presidents did not have Vice Presidents for at least part of their term of office, and 4 had no Vice President for their entire term, having become President on the death of the elected President. The Constitution originally had no provision for electing a replacement Vice President. A total of 7 Vice Presidents have died in office.

Presidents with no Vice President ever:

John Tyler (succeeded William Henry Harrison)

Millard Fillmore (succeeded Zachary Taylor)

Andrew Johnson (succeeded Abraham Lincoln)

Chester Arthur (succeeded James Garfield)

Other Presidents who served parts of terms with no Vice President:

• James Madison (total 38 months - 11 months when VP George Clinton died first term; 27 months when VP Elbridge Gerry died second term)
• Andrew Jackson (3 months- VP John C. Calhoun resigned to run for the US Senate)
• Franklin Pierce (47 months - VP William King died)
• Ulysses S. Grant (16 months - VP Henry Wilson died)
• Grover T. Cleveland (39 months - VP Thomas Hendricks died)
• William McKinley (15 months - VP Garret Hobart died)
• Theodore Roosevelt (42 months of first term - succeeded William McKinley)
• William H. Taft (4 months - VP James Sherman died)
• Calvin Coolidge (19 months of first term - succeeded Warren Harding)
• Harry Truman (47 months of first term - succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt)
• Lyndon Johnson (16 months of first term - succeeded John F. Kennedy)
• *Richard Nixon (2 months out of second term - VP Spiro T. Agnew resigned) -- Gerald Ford appointed new vice-president
• *Gerald Ford (4 months - succeeded Richard Nixon) - Nelson Rockefeller appointed new vice-president

*The 25th Amendment, ratified in 1967, provides for the replacement of the Vice President in the event that the Vice President dies in office, resigns, or succeeds to the presidency.

Answer 2

The following Presidents never served as Vice President.

George Washington

James Madison

James Monroe

John Quincy Adams

Andrew Jackson

William Harrison

James Polk

Zachary Taylor

Franklin Pierce

James Buchanan

Abraham Lincoln

Ulysses Grant

Rutherford Hayes

James Garfield

Grover Cleveland

Benjamin Harrison

William McKinley

William Taft

Woodrow Wilson

Warren Harding

Herbert Hoover

Franklin Roosevelt

Dwight Eisenhower

John Kennedy

Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan

Bill Clinton

George W. Bush

The following were promoted from the Vice Presidency to the Presidency because of the death (or resignation) of their President:

John Tyler after the death of William Harrison

Millard Filmore after the death of Zachary Taylor

Andrew Johnson after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Chester Arthur after the assassination of James Garfield

Theodore Roosevelt after the assassination of William McKinley (re elected)

Calvin Coolidge after the death of Warren Harding (re elected)

Harry Truman after the death of Franklin Roosevelt (re elected)

Lyndon Johnson after the assassination of John Kennedy (re elected)

Gerald Ford after the resignation of Richard Nixon

The following were elected to the Presidency for the first time having already served as Vice President.

John Adams

Thomas Jefferson

Martin van Buren

Richard Nixon

George H. W. Bush

Answer 3

Not so very many of them did. I may have forgotten some but these were not US senators: Washington, J. Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Taylor, Polk, Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, T. Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Coolidge, Hoover, F. Roosevelt, Eisenhower,Ford, Carter, Reagan,George H. W.Bush. Clinton, and G. W. Bush.

Answer 4

Too many to list here -- See Sources and related linksfor a complete list of vice presidents.