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There were 9 US Vice Presidents who became President on the death or resignation of the President:

8 Vice Presidents succeeding on the death of the President:

John Tyler - 10th Vice President (succeeded William Henry Harrison)

Millard Fillmore - 12th Vice President (succeeded Zachary Taylor)

Andrew Johnson - 16th Vice President (succeeded Abraham Lincoln)

Chester A. Arthur - 20th Vice President (succeeded James Garfield)

Theodore Roosevelt - 25th Vice President (succeeded William McKinley)

Calvin Coolidge - 29th Vice President (succeeded Warren G. Harding)

Harry S. Truman - 34th Vice President (succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt)

Lyndon B. Johnson - 37th Vice president (succeeded John F. Kennedy)

1 Vice President succeeding on the resignation of the President:

Gerald R. Ford - 40th Vice President (succeeded Richard Nixon)

* 4 sitting Vice Presidents were elected President:

John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren and George H.W. Bush

* 1 Vice President who ran and lost was elected President eight years later: Richard Nixon

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