Vice President-elect of the United States

Vice President-elect of
the United States
Incumbent
Vacant
since January 20, 2025
StyleThe Honorable
Term lengthIn the period between the general election on Election Day in November and Noon (Eastern Standard Time) on Inauguration Day
Inaugural holderJohn Adams
January 10, 1789
FormationNo official formation
SalaryNone

Vice President-elect of the United States is the title used for an incoming vice president of the United States between the general election on Election Day in November and noon Eastern Standard Time on Inauguration Day of January 20. During this time, the elected nominee is not in office yet.

The term corresponds to the term "president-elect of the United States", used for those elected president of the United States for the same period between their election and inauguration.

If the current vice president has won re-election alongside the current president, they are not given the title of vice president-elect because they are already in office and is not waiting to become vice president.

Vice President-designate of the United States

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Since 1967, the vice presidency has been vacant twice, and a successor was nominated to fill the vacancy in with the 25th Amendment. The first was in 1973 when Gerald Ford was nominated by President Richard Nixon to succeed Spiro Agnew, who had resigned. The second came in 1974, when Ford, who had succeeded to the presidency following Nixon's resignation, nominated Nelson Rockefeller to succeed him.[1][2] During both vacancies, the nominee was called vice president-designate, instead of vice president-elect, as neither had been elected to the office.

List of vice presidents-elect

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Vice President-elect[a] Party Election Inauguration
1 John Adams   Nonpartisan Election of 1788–89[b] George Washington's first inauguration
2 Thomas Jefferson   Democratic-Republican Election of 1796 John Adams's inauguration
3 Aaron Burr   Election of 1800[c] Thomas Jefferson's first inauguration
4 George Clinton Election of 1804 Thomas Jefferson's second inauguration
5 Elbridge Gerry Election of 1812 James Madison's second inauguration
6 Daniel D. Tompkins Election of 1816 James Monroe's first inauguration
7 John C. Calhoun Election of 1824[c] John Quincy Adams's inauguration
8 Martin Van Buren   Democratic Election of 1832 Andrew Jackson's second inauguration
9 Richard Mentor Johnson Election of 1836 Martin Van Buren's inauguration
10 John Tyler   Whig Election of 1840 William Henry Harrison's inauguration
11 George M. Dallas   Democratic Election of 1844 James K. Polk's inauguration
12 Millard Fillmore   Whig Election of 1848 Zachary Taylor's inauguration
13 William R. King   Democratic Election of 1852 Oath of office administered March 24, 1853[d]
14 John C. Breckinridge Election of 1856 James Buchanan's inauguration
15 Hannibal Hamlin   Republican Election of 1860 Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration
16 Andrew Johnson   National Union Election of 1864 Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration
17 Schuyler Colfax   Republican Election of 1868 Ulysses S. Grant's first inauguration
18 Henry Wilson Election of 1872 Ulysses S. Grant's second inauguration
19 William A. Wheeler Election of 1876[e] Rutherford B. Hayes's inauguration
20 Chester A. Arthur Election of 1880 James A. Garfield's inauguration
21 Thomas A. Hendricks   Democratic Election of 1884 Grover Cleveland's first inauguration
22 Levi P. Morton   Republican Election of 1888 Benjamin Harrison's inauguration
23 Adlai Stevenson I   Democratic Election of 1892 Grover Cleveland's second inauguration
24 Garret Hobart   Republican Election of 1896 William McKinley's first inauguration
25 Theodore Roosevelt Election of 1900 William McKinley's second inauguration
26 Charles W. Fairbanks Election of 1904 Theodore Roosevelt's second inauguration
27 James S. Sherman Election of 1908 William Howard Taft's inauguration
28 Thomas R. Marshall   Democratic Election of 1912 Woodrow Wilson's first inauguration
29 Calvin Coolidge   Republican Election of 1920 Warren G. Harding's inauguration
20 Charles G. Dawes Election of 1924 Calvin Coolidge's inauguration
31 Charles Curtis Election of 1928 Herbert Hoover's inauguration
32 John Nance Garner   Democratic Election of 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inauguration
33 Henry A. Wallace Election of 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt's third inauguration
34 Harry S. Truman Election of 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt's fourth inauguration
35 Alben W. Barkley Election of 1948 Harry S. Truman's second inauguration
36 Richard Nixon   Republican Election of 1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower's first inauguration
37 Lyndon B. Johnson   Democratic Election of 1960 John F. Kennedy's inauguration
38 Hubert Humphrey Election of 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson's second inauguration
39 Spiro Agnew   Republican Election of 1968 Richard Nixon's first inauguration
40 Walter Mondale   Democratic Election of 1976 Jimmy Carter's inauguration
41 George H. W. Bush   Republican Election of 1980 Ronald Reagan's first inauguration
42 Dan Quayle Election of 1988 George H. W. Bush's inauguration
43 Al Gore   Democratic Election of 1992 Bill Clinton's first inauguration
44 Dick Cheney   Republican Election of 2000[f] George W. Bush's first inauguration
45 Joe Biden   Democratic Election of 2008 Barack Obama's first inauguration
46 Mike Pence   Republican Election of 2016 Donald Trump's first inauguration
47 Kamala Harris   Democratic Election of 2020 Joe Biden's inauguration
48 JD Vance   Republican Election of 2024 Donald Trump's second inauguration
Notes:
  1. ↑ Column counts number of vice president-elect. Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller are not counted because they entered office intra-term and were never elected to the vice presidency.
  2. ↑ Also after a delay in the certification of the electoral votes by Congress.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Also after a contingent election in the House of Representatives.
  4. ↑ Ill with tuberculosis, William King traveled to Cuba after the 1852 election in an effort to regain his health, and was not able to be in Washington, D.C. to take his oath of office on March 4, 1853. By an Act of Congress, he was allowed to take the oath outside the United States, and was sworn in on March 24, 1853 near Matanzas, Cuba. He is the only vice president to take his oath of office in a foreign country.
  5. ↑ Also after a dispute over 20 electoral votes from four states was resolved by a special Electoral Commission established by Congress.
  6. ↑ Also after a dispute over Florida's 25 electoral votes was resolved by the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore, which halted the Florida vote recount that was under way.[3]

References

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  1. ↑ Nessen, Ron (Reporter); Jamieson, Bob (Reporter); Brokaw, Tom (Anchor) (October 13, 1973). "Profile of Vice President-Designate Gerald Ford". NBC Nightly News. NBC. Archived from the original on November 14, 2020. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President-Designate". Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum. Archived from the original on November 14, 2020. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
  3. ↑ McCaleb, Ian Christopher (December 13, 2000). "Bush, now president-elect, signals will to bridge partisan gaps". CNN.com. Archived from the original on November 14, 2020. Retrieved February 10, 2009.