President Nixon.
Richard Nixon was the only vice president to become president that did not succeed the president he served under.
Of the 14 U. S. Vice Presidents who became President, the only one whose presidency did not immediately follow his vice presidency is Richard M. Nixon. He did run for president while still the incumbent vice president, but he lost that election (1960) and did not run again for president until 8 years later. It's interesting that Nixon preceded Lyndon Johnson as vice president, but Johnson preceded Nixon as president.
Richard Nixon- he resigned in August 1974 over the Watergate Scandal. He was re-elected for a second term in '72, so still had two years left to go when he resigned. His Vice-President Gerald Ford took over the post until the elections in '76, when he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.
Gerald Ford. He was appointed Vice president by President Richard Nixon when the elected Vice president, Spiro Agnew, resigned. Then Ford became President by succeeding to the office when President Nixon resigned from office.
Yes, Nixon was the only president to resign.
Nixon was the first and only president to resign from office.
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The two biggest reasons are that he was the only American in history to have served as Vice-President and President, never having been ELECTED to either office. Second, he was the only President in history to have issued a Presidential Pardon to a resigned President (Richard Nixon).
Richard Nixon is the first and only President to resign.
President Nixon is known for being the only president in U.S. history to resign from office. He resigned in 1974 following the Watergate scandal, where his involvement in illegal activities, including the cover-up of a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, was revealed. No other president before or since Nixon has resigned from office.
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Nixon was the only President to resign from office.
Richard Nixon is the only president of the U.S.A to resign and not complete his term as president.
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President Nixon.
President Nixon was the first president in American history to resign. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency, he became the only president to resign from the office.