Vice President The vice president of the United States occupies a high position in government, yet is given little responsibility under the U.S. Constitution. A person elected vice president presides over the Senate, but apart from that duty, he or she must rely upon the president to assign...
It took only three elections for the weakness of that system of choosing the vice president to become obvious. In the 1796 election, Founding Fathers and bitter political rivals John Adams, a Federalist, and Thomas Jefferson, a Republican, ended up as president and vice president. To say the ...
An affair of honor: in the summer of 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr challenged Alexander Hamilton to a duel. To this day, no one knows who fired the first shot. (American History).Landauro, Victor
Who was vice president after Dan Quayle?Dan Quayle,After his unsuccessful bid to become the nominee of the Republican party in 2000, George H. W. Bush's former vice president, Dan Quayle, has stayed for the most part out of the public's eye and avoided politics. He did endorse ...
Vice President from 1789-1797; President from 1797-1801. Adams was the first Vice President of the United States, serving under George Washington. After Washington refused a third term, the Federalist ticket went to Adams, who won in the general election in 1796 over Democratic-Republican Thomas...
Answer and Explanation: The vice president in 1998 was Al Gore, the man who served as Clinton's VP for both of his terms. A journalist who became a senator from Tennessee,...
Presumably this still leaves open the loophole (intended or not) that one who had already been elected twice could still serve as President again by attaining that office through other means — particularly, by being elected or appointed Vice-President and thus becoming next in the line of pres...
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The ratification of the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution, in 1804, changed this procedure by requiring each elector to vote for president and vice president on separate ballots instead of voting for two persons on a single ballot. During the early years of the Republic, the vice president ...
The ratification of the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution, in 1804, changed this procedure by requiring each elector to vote for president and vice president on separate ballots instead of voting for two persons on a single ballot. During the early years of the Republic, the vice president ...