Sargent Shriver was never the US vice president, although he was the US vice president nominee for the Democrat party in the 1972 election on the same ticket as McGovern.
Gerald Ford was the Vice President under Nixon before the 1972 election.
He was Thomas Eagleton, a senator from MO.
Thomas F. Eagleton (September 4, 1929 – March 4, 2007), US Senator from Missouri was the nomineefor vice-president in 1972, who was replaced by Sargent Shriver. after it was learned that Eagleton had been treated for mental illness.
Thomas F. Eagleton (September 4, 1929 – March 4, 2007), US Senator from Missouri was the nomineefor vice-president in 1972, who was replaced by Sargent Shriver. after it was learned that Eagleton had been treated for mental illness.
Arthur K. Watson replaced Sargent Shriver as the US Ambassador to France. There were a handful of other men who replaced Shriver in other positions. Notably, Shriver replaced Thomas Eagleton in 1972 as the Vice Presidential candidate for the Democratic party.
R. Sargent Shriver died Tuesday January 18 at the age of 95. He is the the Kennedy in-law who became: the founding director of the Peace Corps, the architect of President Lyndon B. Johnson's war on poverty US ambassador to France Democratic candidate for vice president in 1972
U.S. Senator from Missouri Thomas Eagleton (1929-2007)
In 1972 Richard Nixon was elected President with his running mate Spiro T. Agnew. Their Democratic opponents were George McGovern for President and Sargent Shriver for VP. (Thomas Eagleton was originally nominated for VP but was found to have had a nervous break down and was dropped from the ticket.) John Schmitz and Thomas Anderson ran on the American Independent ticket and won 1.42% of the popular vote.
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When senator George McGovern was the democratic party's nominee for the president in 1972, Thomas Eagleton was the man that was nominated for vice president. Thomas Eagleton was eventually replaced by Sargent Shiver.
The Vice President is chosen before the President.
Spiro Agnew, the incumbent Vice President, was the Republican nominee, despite the fact neither of them got on. A year later, Agnew resigned after facing charges for corruption. The Democratic nominee was initially Thomas Eagleton. After it was discovered Eagleton suffered from mental illness and had undergone electric shock therapy, he resigned and was replaced with Sargent Shriver, a relative of Kennedy.
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