The vice president of the United States is the second-highest office in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidenti
John Adams, the first vice president of the United States
Though prominent as a Missouri Senator, Harry S. Truman had been vice president only three months when he became president; he was never informed of Franklin D. Roosevelt's war or postwar policies while serving as vice president. This led to several statutory reforms concerning the office.
1888 illustration of John Tyler receiving the news of President William Henry Harrison's death from Chief Clerk of the State Department Fletcher Webster
The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides the procedure for electing the president and vice president. It replaced the procedure in Article II, Section 1, Clause 3, under which
The Twelfth Amendment in the National Archives
Certificate for the electoral vote for Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler for the State of Louisiana