Who was vice president in1959?

Answer 1

Richard M. Nixon was the Vice President of the United States in 1959.

As the 36th Vice President, he served from 1953 to 1961. He lost the election for President in 1960 to John F. Kennedy, but was elected the 37th President in 1968, serving from January 20, 1969 to August 9, 1974.

Answer 2

Hubert H. Humphrey (born May 27, 1911 in Wallace, South Dakota; died January 13, 1978 in Waverly, Minnesota) succeeded Lyndon B. Johnson as the thirty-eighth Vice-President of the United States, serving between January 20, 1965 and January 20, 1969.

Following the end of Hubert H. Humphrey's term as Vice-President, Spiro Agnew (born November 9, 1918 in Baltimore, Maryland; died September 17, 1996 in Berlin, Maryland) became the thirty-ninth Vice-President of the United States, serving between January 20, 1969 and October 10, 1973.

Answer 3

Following the end of Harry S Truman's term as Vice-President, there was a vacancy in the office of Vice-President between April 12, 1945 and January 20, 1949.

Following the end of the vacancy, Alben W. Barkley (born November 24, 1877 in Graves County, Kentucky; died April 30, 1956 in Lexington, Virginia) became the thirty-fifth Vice-President of the United States, serving between January 20, 1949 and January 20, 1953.

Answer 4

Richard Nixon (born January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California; died April 22, 1994 in New York, New York) succeeded Alben W. Barkley as the thirty-sixth Vice-President of the United States, serving between January 20, 1953 and January 20, 1961, including the whole of 1959.

Answer 5

Alben W. Barkley

assumed and held the position from 20 January, 1949. to 20 January 1953.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alben_Barkley

Answer 6

Richard M. Nixon, under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Answer 7

It was Richard M. Nixon. (1953-1961)