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.
Gerald Ford is the only man who be both President and Vice President without being elected to either position. In 1973 following the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew, President Richard Nixon appointed House Minority Leader and Congressman Gerald Ford to replace Agnew as the Vice President. Ford served as the Vice President from 1973 until 1974 when Nixon resigned from the Presidency following the Watergate scandal. Ford served as president from 1974 until 1977 when he was replaced as President by Jimmy Carter.
President Gerald Ford was not elected to either office of President or Vice President. He was appointed Vice President in 1973 after Vice President Agnew resigned, and succeeded President Nixon in 1974 after his resignation.
Gerald Ford is the only US president who was not elected as president or vice president.
Gerald R. Ford. He was neither elected President nor Vice President. He became VP when Spiro Agnew resigned, then President when Richard M. Nixon resigned.
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At this writing, 5/3/2010, no woman has ever been elected President or Vice President of the US.
In the US, the offices of President and vice-president are the only nationally elected offices.
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Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller served for 25 months as the only US President and Vice President who were never elected to either position. Ford became the 38th President on August 9, 1974, and Rockefeller became the 41st Vice President on December 19, 1974.--- Both Ford (House minority leader from Michigan) and Rockefeller (longtime governor of New York) became Vice President under the 25th Amendment. Ford became Vice president after the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew, and became President after the resignation of Richard Nixon. Rockefeller was then chosen as Ford's Vice President.
The vice president is selected by the canidates and if they win the vice president they chose becomes vice president.
Technically speaking, they've all been elected in to *office*. However, Ford is the only one who was never elected to the Executive Office (as either President or Vice-President).
There have been several presidents that have not been elected as president. However, these men have all been elected as vice president, and became president on the death or exit of office of the president they served under. But only one was not elected as president or vice president. That was Gerald Rudolph Ford. He was not the vice president Richard Milhous Nixon was elected with, but appointed after Spiro Theodore Agnew left. Nixon was caught with The Watergate Scandal, and resigned before impeachment. Upon resignation, Gerald Rudolph Ford became preisdent.
At this writing, 5/3/2010, no woman has ever been elected President or Vice President of the US.
Gerald Ford was the only vice-president not elected. He was appointed VP when when the elected VP Agnew resigned resigned.
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No- Clinton can not be president because he as already been twicel elected. Therefore he can not be vice-president.
Gerald R. Ford is the one. He was appointed vice-president when the elected vice-president Spiro Agnew resigned and became president when President Richard Nixon resigned.
In the US, the offices of President and vice-president are the only nationally elected offices.
All presidents have been elected to some government office, but Gerald Ford was the only one who was never elected as vice president or president. He did serve as a congressman, but was appointed, not elected, as vice president by Richard Nixon and took office after Nixon's resign without election.
There have been way more than two vice presidents that were elected president right after their vice presidential term. The first was John Adams, who was also the first vice president. The second was Thomas Jefferson, who was also the second vice president. The third was Martin Van Buren, who was Andrew Jackson's vice president, and then was elected president right after his vice presidential term. There are many more (including George Bush).
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The US president has always been elected in substantially the same way. The real change was in the way the vice-president was elected.