Incumbent Vice Presidents who lost their presidential elections were...
(Although Nixon lost the 1960 election, he ran again and won eight years later.... His opponent was the incumbent Vice President.)
Vice-president Gerald Ford became President because President Nixon resigned his office. Vice-Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Martin Van Buren ran for President and were elected, Vice-president Richard Nixon ran for president and lost, but 8 years later ran again and was elected.
The only U.S. president who was never elected as president or vice president is Gerald Ford. He was a Congressman who was appointed to office. He ran for a second term, but lost to Jimmy Carter.
Yes- They were Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge, Truman. Lyndon Johnson and Ford. In addition, former vice-presidents Nixon and George H. W. Bush ran for president and were elected,
14 - nine were vice-presidents that became president when the president died or resigned, and five served out their full terms as elected vice-president, then ran for president and won.
Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for vice-president in 1920 but lost. He was elected President in 1932,1936,1940 and 1944.
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At the time they ran for Vice President, Tennessee was the home state of Andrew Johnson and Al Gore.
Gerald Ford holds that distinction. He became Vice-president after the elected Vice-president, Agnew, resigned and then became president when President Nixon resigned. He later ran for a term of his own but lost the election to Carter.
Fillmore was a Whig when he was elected vice-president. He was the last Whig to be President. Later he ran as the candidate for the American (aka Know-Nothing) party.
Among those ex vice-presidents that ran for President, Millard Fillmore, John C. Breckenridge, Gerald Ford, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale and Al Gore failed to be elected. Fillmore was a third party nominee and Breckenridge ran against three other opponents in 1860. Richard Nixon lost the first time he ran, but was elected later. Martin Van Buren, George W. Bush and Theodore Roosevelt all lost after winning their first attempt.
Walter Mondale in 1984 and Al Gore in 2000. Also, Richard Nixon in 1960, but he was later elected in 1968.
Richard Nixon, who was eventually elected in 1968.