Was there a president in the U.S. that switched Vice Presidents when re-running for office?
Franklin Roosevelt had different VPs.
Roosevelt’s three different VPs: John Nance Garner, Henry Agard Wallace, Harry Truman
So did Abraham Lincoln. Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson.
Many times. Lincoln’s first Vice President was Hannibal Hamlin of Maine. If he had stayed on the ticket, he would have been President after Lincoln’s assasination instead of Andrew Johnson (a southerner). It is interesting to speculate how history might have been changed had that happened.
If nothing else, it would spare us all of those glurgy “Lincoln vs. Kennedy, both succeeded by Johnson” comparisons.
Franklin Roosevelt had, what, three or four different VPs?
Richard Nixon also had two VPs:
Spiro Agnew (that nattering nabob of negativism), who resigned when indicted for crimes committed when he was Baltimore County Executive and Governor of Maryland; and,
Gerald R. Ford
When Gerald Ford ran in '76, he selected Bob Dole as his running mate rather than the sitting VP, Nelson Rockefeller. (Technically, he wasn’t running for reelection since he wasn’t elected President in the first place.) That’s the most recent instance; to get to someone who actually won, you have to go to the Roosevelt examples already cited.
Besides what was already listed, the following Presidents ran for a 2nd term with different VP candidates than their first term (they won unless I say otherwise):
Thomas Jefferson: Aaron Burr and George Clinton
James Madison: George Clinton and Elbridge Gerry
John Q. Adams: John C. Calhoun and Richard Rush (though the 1824 was a funky election, and you can’t really say that Calhoun and Adams were running together)
Andrew Jackson: John C. Calhoun and Martin Van Buren
U.S. Grant: Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson
Grover Cleveland: Thomas A. Hendriks, A.G. Thurman (lost), and Adlai E. Stevenson
William McKinley: Garrett Hobart and Teddy Roosevelt
William H. Taft: James S. Sherman and Nicolas Butler (lost)
Clinton and Calhoun served consecutive terms under different Presidents.
Interestingly, he wasn’t elected Vice President, either. He was appointed VP in 1973, when Agnew resigned.
Not only wasn’t Ford elected VP, but Rockefeller wasn’t, either (he was appointed to replace Ford). So we had two non-elected VPs in a row.
Three of the VPs died in the first term prior to renomination and election of the two-term presidents, namely Clinton, Hendricks and Hobart. So they weren’t available even if the sitting president had wanted them.
Hobart was offered the second top under James Garfield and had he not refused and everything else had remaind the same, Hobart would have become president due to assassination. If Hobart had survived and been reselected by McKinley, Hobart would have become president by assassination.
First Sally Hemings, and then George Clinton… man, Jefferson knew how to party!
Candidates before the 12th amendment was passed didn’t run with Vice Presidents. Instead, the Presidential candidate who came in at #2 became Vice President.
True, but the 12th passed in 1804, during TJ’s 1st term, so it would really only apply to elections before that time. I included Jefferson on my list because in 1800, both of the major parties had nominated two men, presumably with the assumption that though they were running against each other one was “really” the Presidential candidate and the other the VP candidate. By the 1804 election the new rules were in place, but Aaron Burr was not renominated by the Democratic-Republican party (presumably because they thought that his having shot and killed Federalist leader Alexander Hamilton in a duel in July would reflect badly on the ticket).
Guess the question has been thoroughly answered.
However, for future reference on Presidents and Vice Presidents, here’s some good information:
http://www.1728.com/page5.htm
http://www.1728.com/page6.htm
http://www.1728.com/page7.htm