Why no holiday for America’s vice-presidents?
When I was a kid, my mom bought me a placemat with little portraits of all forty American presidents (which is how many there were back then). After all while, I knew all of their names and when they held office.
Mostly by accident, I spent some time this afternoon consulting Wikipedia’s list of America’s 47 vice presidents. Half of them were total strangers to me. For all I know, they’re just made up names that some practical joker put on Wikipedia.
If you want to prove you’re a history whiz, then learn the names of these men and the presidents under which they served:
- Daniel Tompkins
- Richard Johnson
- George Dallas
- William King
- Henry Wilson
- William Wheeler
- Thomas Hendricks
- Levi Morton
- Charles Fairbanks
- James Sherman
- Thomas Marshall
- Charles Curtis
Bonus question: How many vice presidents have died in office?
One more bonus question: How many times has the vice presidency been vacant for longer than 12 months? When was the longest vacancy?