U.S. Presidents and Their Vice Presidents Quiz

Answer: Franklin Roosevelt

Roosevelt had John Nance Garner (TX) from 1933-1941, Henry Agard Wallace (IA) from 1941-1945, and Harry S. Truman (MO) in 1945. All the other presidents listed had two VPs.

Answer: Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford

After Nixon's first VP, Spiro T. Agnew, resigned, the recently passed 25th Amendment to the US Constitution provided a means for replacing the vacated office (with Gerald Ford). (Before, the office remained empty until the next presidential election.) Then, after Nixon resigned and Ford became president, he used the same provisions to name Nelson Rockefeller as his VP.

Answer: George Clinton and John Calhoun

Clinton was Jefferson's second VP and James Madison's first. Calhoun was John Quincy Adams' VP and Andrew Jackson's first VP. Calhoun was also the first executive office holder to resign before the end of his elected term.

Answer: 14

Five of them - John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, Richard Nixon, and George Herbert Walker Bush - were elected on their own. Four of them - John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Calvin Coolidge, and Harry S. Truman - ascended when their boss died of natural causes.

Another four - Andrew Johnson, Chester Alan Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson - became president when their boss was assassinated. Finally, one - Gerald Ford - became president when his boss resigned.

Answer: Harry S. Truman and Alben Barkley

Barkley himself was 70, older even than Reagan was at his inauguration.

Answer: George Clinton

After the 12th Amendment, the vice presidency became a separate race. Before that, everyone ran for the presidency. Whoever came in second became VP. And if there was a tie, Congress decided who would get the top spot and who'd be second banana. This system only lasted 4 elections.

Answer: Rutherford Hayes and William Wheeler

Ironically, the election of 1876 was one of the most fraud-filled, and yet inaugurated two of the most straight-arrow men to fill those posts. (It's been said they were closer to being Sunday-school teachers than politicians.)

Answer: Richard Nixon

Nixon was elected VP twice and president twice. He only served 1 1/2 years in his second presidential term, for a total of 13 1/2 years. Jefferson and Bush both served 3 full terms in executive offices for 12 years each. Roosevelt was McKinley's second VP. He took over for most of McKinley's second term and one full one of his own for a total of 8 years.

Answer: George Herbert Walker Bush and James Danforth Quayle

Bush/Quayle were from Texas and Indiana. Clinton/Gore were from Arkansas and Tennessee. Truman and Barkley were from Missouri and Kentucky. Grant and Colfax were from Ohio and Indiana.

Bush was born in Massachusetts and grew up there and in Maine. After WWII and graduating from Yale, he moved his family to west Texas.

Answer: Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew

The tricky part of this was that Nixon was a resident of New York during the 1968 campaign. (He had been a California resident his whole life until just after his unsuccessful run for the governor's office in 1962.) But he re-established his California residency before his re-election in 1972.

Nixon/Agnew (1972) were from California and Maryland. Ford was from Michigan, a non-oceanic state; Rockefeller was from New York (1974). Lincoln was from Illinois, non-oceanic; Hamlin was from Maine (1860). Washington/Adams were from Virginia and Massachusettes, both oceanic, but also both on the Atlantic (1789).