How many vice presidents have been elected to president?

Answer 1

George Bush, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Martin Van Buren ---- I do not know about earlier Vice Presidents. However, since the 1940s, there have been a total of five persons who had served as Vice President who later became President. Of those five, four were elected as President in their own right. Harry S. Truman who was elected Vice President for Franklin Delano Roosevelt's fourth Presidential term, became the 33rd President after Roosevelt died in office on April 12, 1945. President Truman was elected to the Presidency in his own right in 1948. This election victory was a surprise to some. A very famous picture of President Truman holding a copy of the Chicago Sun Times, the front page of which read Dewey defeats Truman, has entered the collective consciousness. Finally, in the election of 1952, President Truman was defeated by Dwight David Eisenhour. Lyndon Baines Johnson who was elected Vice President for President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's term as the 35th U.S. President, was sworn in as the 36th U.S. President on November 22, 1963, following the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. To date, President Lyndon Baines Johnson is the only President to be sworn in by a female judge. President Lyndon Baines Johnson was elected to the Presidency in his own right in the election of 1964. Richard Milhous Nixon who was elected Vice President for both of President Dwight David Eisenhour's terms as the 34th U.S. President, was elected as the 37th U.S. President in the election of 1968. He took office in January of 1969. President Richard Milhous Nixon was re-elected in 1972. However, President Richard Milhous Nixon resigned the Presidency in 1974. Gerald Fordascended to the Vice Presidency to replace Spiro Agnew who resigned as Vice President for President Richard Milhous Nixon amid a financial corruption scandal. Later, in 1974 when President Richard Milhous Nixon resigned, Vice President Gerald Ford became the 38th U.S. President. President Gerald Ford lost the election of 1976 to Jimmy Carter, and thus, was never elected in his own right as President, or even as Vice President. George Herbert Walker Bush who was elected Vice President for both of President Ronald Reagan's terms as the 40th U.S. President, was elected as the 41st U.S. President in 1988. He was not re-elected in 1992.

Answer 2

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