14th Vice President John C. Breckinridge (36)
The vice president is selected by the canidates and if they win the vice president they chose becomes vice president.
The President & Vice-President are elected by the ballots cast by citizens called electors.
The vice-president becomes President if the president can not function.
At this writing, 5/3/2010, no woman has ever been elected President or Vice President of the US.
The 12th amendment to the Constitution provides for the president and vice-president to be elected in separate ballots. Prior to this amendment the person who finished second in the balloting for president was elected vice-president.
Technically John F. Kennedy was elected the youngest but the youngest president in office was Roosevelt. (Roosevelt was elected Vice President in 1900 and became President when President William McKinley was assassinated.)
Um... no. The youngest president was Theodore Roosevelt (42) although he took office because he was the vice president of William McKinley, who was assassinated. The youngest president ever to be ELECTED was John F. Kennedy (43).
Theodore Roosevelt was the Vice President under William McKinley and was the youngest president to hold officer when McKinley was assassinated. John F. Kennedy was youngest president elected to office.
The youngest man to become president was Theodore Roosevelt at age 43. As vice president, Roosevelt became president after the death of William McKinley. The youngest man to be elected president was John Kennedy at age 44.
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John C. Breckinridge, the 14th U. S. Vice President (1857-1861), was 36 when he was sworn in (he was 35 when elected). He was the only U. S. Vice President to date under the age of 40. The second-youngest Vice President, Richard Nixon, was sworn in 11 days after his 40th birthday in January, 1953.
John F. Kennedy was the youngest president ever elected (43 years 236 days old).However, Theodore Roosevelt became vice president at a younger age (42 years 322 days old) and became president after McKinley's assassination and was technically a younger president than JFK.
The vice president is elected with the president
Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest American to become President at the age of 42. This was because of assassination. But, John F. Kennedy was the youngest American to be ELECTED President at the age of 43.
John F. Kennedy was the youngest president ever elected at the age 43. He was the 35th president of The United States of America. He had 8 siblings. He was the second oldest child of Joseph P. Kennedy, his father. Actually Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest president; he was 42 years and 322 days old. (Inauguration age) However, John F. Kennedy was the youngest elected president, Theodore Roosevelt took presidency when McKinley was assassinated.
The vice president is selected by the canidates and if they win the vice president they chose becomes vice president.
John Adams was the 1st vice president elected.