List of vice presidents of the United States by time in office

This is a list of vice presidents of the United States by time in office. The basis of the list is the difference between dates. The length of a full four-year vice-presidential term of office amounts to 1,461 days (three common years of 365 days plus one leap year of 366 days). If counted by number of calendar days all the figures would be one greater.

Since 1789, there have been 49 people sworn into office as Vice President of the United States. Of these, nine succeeded to the presidency during their term, seven died while in office, and two resigned. Since the adoption of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution (February 10, 1967), when there is a vacancy in the office of the vice president, the president nominates a successor who takes office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.

Vice presidents by time in office

Rank	Vice President	Length in days	Order of vice presidency	President served under	Number of terms
1 tie	Daniel D. Tompkins	2,922	6th • March 4, 1817 – March 4, 1825	James Monroe	Two full terms
	Thomas R. Marshall	2,922	28th • March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921	Woodrow Wilson	Two full terms
	Richard Nixon	2,922	36th • January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Two full terms
	George H. W. Bush	2,922	43rd • January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989	Ronald Reagan	Two full terms
	Al Gore	2,922	45th • January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001	Bill Clinton	Two full terms
	Dick Cheney	2,922	46th • January 20, 2001 – January 20, 2009	George W. Bush	Two full terms
	Joe Biden	2,922	47th • January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017	Barack Obama	Two full terms
8	John Nance Garner	2,879^[a]	32nd • March 4, 1933 – January 20, 1941	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Two full terms
9	John Adams	2,874^[b]	1st • April 21, 1789 – March 4, 1797	George Washington	Two full terms
10	John C. Calhoun	2,856	7th • March 4, 1825 – December 28, 1832^[c]	John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson	One full term; resigned 3 years, 9 months and 24 days into second term
11	George Clinton	2,604	4th • March 4, 1805 – April 20, 1812^[d]	Thomas Jefferson and James Madison	One full term; died 3 years, 1 month and 16 days into second term
12	Spiro Agnew	1,724	39th • January 20, 1969 – October 10, 1973^[c]	Richard Nixon	One full term; resigned 8 months and 20 days into second term
13 tie	Aaron Burr	1,461	3rd • March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1805	Thomas Jefferson	One full term
	Martin Van Buren	1,461	8th • March 4, 1833 – March 4, 1837	Andrew Jackson	One full term
	Richard Johnson	1,461	9th • March 4, 1837 – March 4, 1841	Martin Van Buren	One full term
	George M. Dallas	1,461	11th • March 4, 1845 – March 4, 1849	James K. Polk	One full term
	John C. Breckinridge	1,461	14th • March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861	James Buchanan	One full term
	Hannibal Hamlin	1,461	15th • March 4, 1861 – March 4, 1865	Abraham Lincoln	One full term
	Schuyler Colfax	1,461	17th • March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1873	Ulysses S. Grant	One full term
	William A. Wheeler	1,461	19th • March 4, 1877 – March 4, 1881	Rutherford B. Hayes	One full term
	Levi P. Morton	1,461	22nd • March 4, 1889 – March 4, 1893	Benjamin Harrison	One full term
	Adlai E. Stevenson	1,461	23rd • March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897	Grover Cleveland	One full term
	Charles W. Fairbanks	1,461	26th • March 4, 1905 – March 4, 1909	Theodore Roosevelt	One full term
	Charles G. Dawes	1,461	30th • March 4, 1925 – March 4, 1929	Calvin Coolidge	One full term
	Charles Curtis	1,461	31st • March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933	Herbert Hoover	One full term
	Henry A. Wallace	1,461	33rd • January 20, 1941 – January 20, 1945	Franklin D. Roosevelt	One full term
	Alben W. Barkley	1,461	35th • January 20, 1949 – January 20, 1953	Harry S. Truman	One full term
	Hubert Humphrey	1,461	38th • January 20, 1965 – January 20, 1969	Lyndon B. Johnson	One full term
	Walter Mondale	1,461	42nd • January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter	One full term
	Dan Quayle	1,461	44th • January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993	George H. W. Bush	One full term
	Mike Pence	1,461	48th • January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021	Donald Trump	One full term
32	Thomas Jefferson	1,460^[e]	2nd • March 4, 1797 – March 4, 1801	John Adams	One full term
33	Kamala Harris	1,438^[f]	49th • January 20, 2021 – Incumbent	Joe Biden	Currently serving
34	James S. Sherman	1,336	27th • March 4, 1909 – October 30, 1912^[d]	William Howard Taft	Died 3 years, 7 months and 26 days into term
35	Lyndon B. Johnson	1,036	37th • January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963^[g]	John F. Kennedy	Succeeded to presidency 2 years, 10 months and 2 days into term
36	Henry Wilson	993	18th • March 4, 1873 – November 22, 1875^[d]	Ulysses S. Grant	Died 2 years, 8 months and 18 days into term
37	Garret Hobart	992^[e]	24th • March 4, 1897 – November 21, 1899^[d]	William McKinley	Died 2 years, 8 months and 17 days into term
38	Calvin Coolidge	881	29th • March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923^[g]	Warren G. Harding	Succeeded to presidency 2 years, 4 months and 29 days into term
39	Nelson Rockefeller	763	41st • December 19, 1974^[h] – January 20, 1977	Gerald Ford	One partial term (2 years, 1 month and 1 day)
40	Elbridge Gerry	629	5th • March 4, 1813 – November 23, 1814^[d]	James Madison	Died 1 year, 8 months and 19 days into term
41	Millard Fillmore	492	12th • March 4, 1849 – July 9, 1850^[g]	Zachary Taylor	Succeeded to presidency 1 year, 4 months and 5 days into term
42	Thomas A. Hendricks	266	21st • March 4 – November 25, 1885^[d]	Grover Cleveland	Died 8 months and 21 days into term
43	Gerald Ford	246	40th • December 6, 1973^[h] – August 9, 1974^[g]	Richard Nixon	Succeeded to presidency 8 months and 3 days into partial term
44	Chester A. Arthur	199	20th • March 4 – September 19, 1881^[g]	James A. Garfield	Succeeded to presidency 6 months and 15 days into term
45	Theodore Roosevelt	194	25th • March 4 – September 14, 1901^[g]	William McKinley	Succeeded to presidency 6 months and 10 days into term
46	Harry S. Truman	82	34th • January 20 – April 12, 1945^[g]	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Succeeded to presidency 2 months and 23 days into term
47	William R. King	45	13th • March 4 – April 18, 1853^[d]	Franklin Pierce	Died 1 month and 14 days into term
48	Andrew Johnson	42	16th • March 4 – April 15, 1865^[g]	Abraham Lincoln	Succeeded to presidency 1 month and 11 days into term
49	John Tyler	31	10th • March 4 – April 4, 1841^[g]	William Henry Harrison	Succeeded to presidency 31 days into term

Notes

^ The 20th Amendment (ratified January 23, 1933) moved Inauguration Day from March 4 to January 20. The 1937 presidential inauguration was the first to take place on the new date. As a result, John Nance Garner's first term in office (1933–1937) was only 1,418 days long, 1 month and 12 days shorter than a normal term.
^ Due to logistical issues, John Adams assumed the vice presidency 1 month and 17 days after the March 4, 1789 scheduled start of operations of the new government under the Constitution. As a result, his first term (1789–1793) was only 1,413 days long, the shortest term for a U.S. vice president who neither died in office nor resigned.
^ ^a ^b Resigned from office
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Died in office
^ ^a ^b Of years evenly divisible by 100, only those evenly divisible by 400 are leap years. The years 1800 and 1900 are divisible by 100, but not by 400; thus, the 1797 – 1801 term of Thomas Jefferson did not include a 366-day leap year, and so was one day shorter than a normal full term. The same was true for the 1897 – 1901 term to which Garret Hobart was elected, but he died before completing it.
^ As of December 28, 2024
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Succeeded to presidency
^ ^a ^b Confirmed by U.S. Congress.

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[1] The 20th Amendment (ratified January 23, 1933) moved Inauguration Day from March 4 to January 20. The 1937 presidential inauguration was the first to take place on the new date. As a result, John Nance Garner's first term in office (1933–1937) was only 1,418 days long, 1 month and 12 days shorter than a normal term.

[2] Due to logistical issues, John Adams assumed the vice presidency 1 month and 17 days after the March 4, 1789 scheduled start of operations of the new government under the Constitution. As a result, his first term (1789–1793) was only 1,413 days long, the shortest term for a U.S. vice president who neither died in office nor resigned.

[Resigned-3] Resigned from office

[Died-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Died in office

[100not400-5] Of years evenly divisible by 100, only those evenly divisible by 400 are leap years. The years 1800 and 1900 are divisible by 100, but not by 400; thus, the 1797 – 1801 term of Thomas Jefferson did not include a 366-day leap year, and so was one day shorter than a normal full term. The same was true for the 1897 – 1901 term to which Garret Hobart was elected, but he died before completing it.

[6] As of December 28, 2024

[Succeeded-7] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Succeeded to presidency

[Confirmed-8] Confirmed by U.S. Congress.

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