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How many vice presidents were candidates in the same election before they were chosen as a running mate?
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U. S. Vice Presidents who were chosen to be Vice Presidential candidates after they tried but failed to get the presidential nomination:
- George Clinton (1808)
- Daniel D. Tompkins (1816)
- John C. Calhoun (1824)
- Thomas A. Hendricks (1884)
- Thomas R. Marshall (1912)
- Calvin Coolidge (1920)
- Charles Curtis (1928)
- John Nance Garner (1932)
- Lyndon B. Johnson (1960)
- George H. W. Bush (1980)
- Joe Biden (2008)
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