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
RankVice PresidentLength
in days		Order of vice presidency President served under
1
tie		Daniel D. Tompkins2,9226th • March 4, 1817 – March 4, 1825James Monroe
Thomas R. Marshall2,92228th • March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921Woodrow Wilson
Richard Nixon2,92236th • January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961Dwight D. Eisenhower
George H. W. Bush2,92243rd • January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989Ronald Reagan
Al Gore2,922[lower-alpha 1]45th • January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001Bill Clinton
Dick Cheney2,92246th • January 20, 2001 – January 20, 2009George W. Bush
Joe Biden2,92247th • January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017Barack Obama
8John Nance Garner2,879[lower-alpha 2]32nd • March 4, 1933 – January 20, 1941Franklin D. Roosevelt
9John Adams2,874[lower-alpha 3]1st • April 21, 1789 – March 4, 1797George Washington
10John C. Calhoun2,8567th • March 4, 1825 – December 28, 1832[lower-alpha 4]John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson
11George Clinton2,6044th • March 4, 1805 – April 20, 1812[lower-alpha 5]Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
12Spiro Agnew1,72439th • January 20, 1969 – October 10, 1973[lower-alpha 4]Richard Nixon
13
tie		Aaron Burr1,4613rd • March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1805Thomas Jefferson
Martin Van Buren1,4618th • March 4, 1833 – March 4, 1837Andrew Jackson
Richard Johnson1,4619th • March 4, 1837 – March 4, 1841Martin Van Buren
George M. Dallas1,46111th • March 4, 1845 – March 4, 1849James K. Polk
John C. Breckinridge1,46114th • March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861James Buchanan
Hannibal Hamlin1,46115th • March 4, 1861 – March 4, 1865Abraham Lincoln
Schuyler Colfax1,46117th • March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1873Ulysses S. Grant
William A. Wheeler1,46119th • March 4, 1877 – March 4, 1881Rutherford B. Hayes
Levi P. Morton1,46122nd • March 4, 1889 – March 4, 1893Benjamin Harrison
Adlai E. Stevenson1,46123rd • March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897Grover Cleveland
Charles W. Fairbanks1,46126th • March 4, 1905 – March 4, 1909Theodore Roosevelt
Charles G. Dawes1,46130th • March 4, 1925 – March 4, 1929Calvin Coolidge
Charles Curtis1,46131st • March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933Herbert Hoover
Henry A. Wallace1,46133rd • January 20, 1941 – January 20, 1945Franklin D. Roosevelt
Alben W. Barkley1,46135th • January 20, 1949 – January 20, 1953Harry S. Truman
Hubert Humphrey1,46138th • January 20, 1965 – January 20, 1969Lyndon B. Johnson
Walter Mondale1,46142nd • January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981Jimmy Carter
Dan Quayle1,46144th • January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993George H. W. Bush
Mike Pence1,46148th • January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021Donald Trump
32Thomas Jefferson1,460[lower-alpha 1]2nd • March 4, 1797 – March 4, 1801John Adams
33James S. Sherman1,33627th • March 4, 1909 – October 30, 1912[lower-alpha 5]William Howard Taft
34Lyndon B. Johnson1,03637th • January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963[lower-alpha 6]John F. Kennedy
35Henry Wilson99318th • March 4, 1873 – November 22, 1875[lower-alpha 5]Ulysses S. Grant
36Garret Hobart992[lower-alpha 1]24th • March 4, 1897 – November 21, 1899[lower-alpha 5]William McKinley
37Calvin Coolidge88129th • March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923[lower-alpha 6]Warren G. Harding
38Nelson Rockefeller76341st • December 19, 1974[lower-alpha 7] – January 20, 1977Gerald Ford
39Elbridge Gerry6295th • March 4, 1813 – November 23, 1814[lower-alpha 5]James Madison
40Millard Fillmore49212th • March 4, 1849 – July 9, 1850[lower-alpha 6]Zachary Taylor
41Thomas A. Hendricks26621st • March 4 – November 25, 1885[lower-alpha 5]Grover Cleveland
42Gerald Ford24640th • December 6, 1973[lower-alpha 7] – August 9, 1974[lower-alpha 6]Richard Nixon
43Chester A. Arthur19920th • March 4 – September 19, 1881[lower-alpha 6]James A. Garfield
44Theodore Roosevelt19425th • March 4 – September 14, 1901[lower-alpha 6]William McKinley
45Harry S. Truman8234th • January 20 – April 12, 1945[lower-alpha 6]Franklin D. Roosevelt
46William R. King4513th • March 4 – April 18, 1853[lower-alpha 5]Franklin Pierce
47Andrew Johnson4216th • March 4 – April 15, 1865[lower-alpha 6]Abraham Lincoln
48John Tyler3110th • March 4 – April 4, 1841[lower-alpha 6]William Henry Harrison
49Kamala Harris16[lower-alpha 8]49th • January 20, 2021 – IncumbentJoe Biden

Notes
  1. 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 term of Thomas Jefferson (1797–1801) did not include a 366-day leap year, and so was one day shorter than a normal full term, as would have been the term of Garret Hobart (1897–1901) had he lived to finish it. The year 2000 is divisible by 400 and so did include one, thus Al Gore's second term (1997–2001) was not shorter than his first.
  2. 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.
  3. Due to logistical issues, John Adams assumed the office of Vice President 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.
  4. Resigned from office
  5. Died in office
  6. Succeeded to presidency
  7. Confirmed by U.S. Congress.
  8. As of February 5, 2021

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