Biden is the fifth vice president in US parliamentary history to become president George W. Bush Sr., Thomas Jefferson, Martin Bourne, Richard Nixon, and Joe Biden, first vice president and then president. NOV, 9 2020

 

Biden is the fifth vice president in US parliamentary history to become president

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 2020 / PRNewswire / - George W. Bush Sr. is the fifth former vice president in the history of the United States Parliament to run for office. He was vice president with Ronald Reagan from 1980 to 1984. John Adams was vice president in 1788 and 1792, won the election in 1796 but lost the presidential election in 1800. Thomas Jefferson lost the presidential election in 1792, becoming the second vice president in 1796 because of the history of American parliamentary history. Thomas Jefferson became the second vice president in the early elections and became president in 1800 and 1804.

Martin van Bourne was elected vice president in 1832 and president in 1836. He was defeated in the 1840 presidential election. In 1844 he did not run in the election. This is followed by Richard Nixon, whose name appears on the ballot paper most often in modern times, and who has been the victim of a variety of situations. In 1952 and 1956, he was vice president of Dwight Eisenhower.

In 1960 he was nominated by the Republican Party for the presidency but lost to John F. Kennedy. He remained silent in the next election and returned to the field in 1968. Not only did he win this election but he was re-elected four years later. Happened.

George W. Bush Sr. was the last vice president to win the presidency. He was Ronald Reagan's vice president in 1980 and 1984 and became president himself in 1988 but failed to seek re-election in 1992 and was defeated by Bill Clinton. gone . There have been five vice presidents who ran for president but success did not follow in their footsteps. In 1856, James Buchanan's vice president, John Breckenridge, lost to Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Harry Wells, Franklin Roosevelt's vice president in 1940, lost in 1948. The reason landed on the field and failed miserably.

Hubert Humphrey, London B. Johnson's vice president, ran for president in 1968, and lost to Richard Nixon. Ditch. In the early days of the United States, there were no separate candidates for the presidency and vice presidency. The first-place candidate became president and the second-place candidate became vice-president. In the first election, held in 1788, 12 candidates ran, 69 of them elected. George Washington, who received the vote, became president, and John Adams, who received 34 electoral votes, became vice president. After a similar election in 1796, John Adams himself became president.

Interestingly, three American leaders first ran for president and were later elected vice presidents, including George Clinton, who ran for president in the first three elections but failed and later became vice president in 1804 and 1808. Ever Burr lost the presidential election in 1792 and 1796 and became vice president in 1800. Thomas Hendricks lost the presidential election in 1872 and won the vice presidency in 1884. The three vice presidents are the ones who got the highest office after the assassination or death of a president. He did not run in the election. He was succeeded by William Henry Harrison in 1841, John Tyler on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865, Andrew Johnson on the assassination of James Garfield in 1881, and Chester Arthur on the assassination.

After the death of Zachary Taylor in 1850, Millard Fillmore became president and did not run in the 1852 election, but four years later, when he jumped into the fray, he was defeated. There were four vice presidents who were assassinated by a president. Or Theodore Roosevelt on the assassination of William McConnell in 1801, Calvin College on the death of Warren Harding in 1923, Harry S. Truman on the death of Franklin Roosevelt in 1945, and John F. Kennedy in 1963. London B. Johnson became president over the assassination and then won the next election himself.

Gerald Ford is the only politician in US history to have reached the highest office without running for president or vice president. He was the leader of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives in 1973. After the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew, President Nixon nominated him Vice President. The following year, Nixon resigned and Gerald Ford became president. In 1976 he ran for president but lost.