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Answer: John Calhoun

John Calhoun served under John Q. Adams and Andrew Jackson. George Clinton served under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.

Answer: Thomas Marshall

Despite Marshall's many accomplishments, he remains best known today for a chance remark he made while presiding over the U.S. Senate in 1917. During a long speech by Senator Joe Bristow of Kansas on the needs of the country, Marshall turned to a clerk and said: 'What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar.'

Answer: George H.W. Bush

But he couldn't achieve the feat that Thomas Jefferson did: being elected president *twice* after being VP.

Answer: John Tyler

Tyler succeeded to the presidency on the premature death of William Henry Harrison. Tyler is also credited with defining the path of succession when a president dies in office. (FYI, Tyler served 31 days, Johnson served 42 days, Truman 82 days, and Coolidge 2.5 years.)

Answer: Elbridge Gerry

"Although Gerry didn't have a city named for him, he does have a connection with geography. When he was governor of Massachusetts, he signed a bill that authorized a tortuous electoral district that was shaped somewhat like a salamander and unfairly favored Jeffersonian Democrats for an upcoming election.

Although he reluctantly signed the bill, this practice of unfair drawing of election districts became known as gerrymandering - combining Gerry and salamander." "Dallas, TX, was named after George Dallas.

Many Texans were so thankful for having Texas admitted during the presidency of James Polk that they named the new town after his VP. "Charles Fairbanks, Teddy Roosevelt's VP, had a small village in Alaska named after him during his tenure. "Breckinridge, Colorado, was named after John Breckinridge in order to flatter the US government in hopes of getting a post office. (It worked: Breckinridge, CO had the first post office between the Continental Divide and Salt Lake City, UT.) But when the Civil War erupted and the former VP joined the Confederacy (becoming a brigadier general), the citizens changed the spelling of their town's name, and it's been Breckenridge ever since."

Answer: New York

Although Indiana is called the 'mother of vice presidents', it is second to New York, which has sent 11.

Answer: Hannibal Hamlin

He was a private in the Maine Coast Guard. Had Lincoln died during his first term, Hamlin would've had the greatest promotion in the world: from private to Commander in Chief.

Answer: Gerald Ford

Ford was appointed vice-president after Agnew resigned. He then became president when Nixon resigned.

Answer: Alben Barkley

71 when inaugurated. By the way, Teddy Roosevelt was one of the youngest elected VPs.

Answer: John Tyler

John Tyler was the only president to be buried without a state funeral -- years after he served as vice president he joined the Confederacy and was buried with his casket draped in a Confederate flag.

Answer: Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley's vice president, won the Nobel Peace Prize while president in 1905 for helping to end a war between Russia and Japan. Charles Dawes, who served as Calvin Coolidge's vice president, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925 before he became vice president for his efforts in restoring Europe's economy following World War One. Al Gore, Bill Clinton's VP, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 (after he was out of office) along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for their efforts in accumulating data and presenting to the public the unhealthful effects of mankind's activities on the climate of the Earth.

Answer: True

Truman was from Missouri, and Berkley was from Kentucky.

Answer: Walter Mondale

Mondale's home state, Minnesota, is north of all the others. Also, Bush may be in Maine quite a lot, but his home state is technically Texas. FYI, Hubert Humphrey was also from Minnesota. Minnesota reaches farther north than Maine.

Answer: Aaron Burr

For killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel.

Answer: Richard Nixon

Jefferson was VP for only 1 term, Bush was president for only 1 term, Truman served almost two full terms as president, but only 82 days as VP.

Answer: Walter Mondale

Answer: 14

5 have been elected on their own, 4 after the president was assassinated, 4 after the president died of natural causes, and one after the president resigned.

Answer: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

They both died on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Answer: Richard Nixon

Johnson and Rockefeller were born before Nixon, but Nixon was VP before either of them.

Answer: Elbridge Gerry

The term is derived from the name of Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, whose state administration enacted a law in 1812 dividing the state into new senatorial districts. The law consolidated the Federalist Party vote in a few districts and thus gave disproportionate representation to Democratic-Republicans.

The outline of one of these districts, which was thought to resemble a salamander, gave rise, through a popular application of the governor's name, to the term gerrymander.