Rank | Date | Vice-Presidents Dead On That Day |
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1 | July 4 | John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Hannibal Hamlin |
2 | January 13 | Schuyler Colfax, Hubert Humphrey |
2 (tied) | June 4 | William A Wheeler, Charles W Fairbanks |
2 (tied) | November 18 | Chester A Arthur, Henry A Wallace |
2 (tied) | December 26 | Harry Truman, Gerald Ford |
6 | January 5 | Calvin Coolidge |
6 (tied) | January 6 | Theodore Roosevelt |
6 (tied) | January 18 | John Tyler |
6 (tied) | January 22 | Lyndon B Johnson |
6 (tied) | January 26 | Nelson A Rockefeller |
6 (tied) | February 8 | Charles Curtis |
6 (tied) | March 8 | Millard Fillmore |
6 (tied) | March 31 | John C Calhoun |
6 (tied) | April 18 | William R King |
6 (tied) | April 20 | George Clinton |
6 (tied) | April 22 | Richard Nixon |
6 (tied) | April 23 | Charles G Dawes |
6 (tied) | April 30 | Alben W Barkley |
6 (tied) | May 16 | Levi P Morton |
6 (tied) | May 17 | John C Breckinridge |
6 (tied) | June 1 | Thomas R Marshall |
6 (tied) | June 11 | Daniel D Tompkins |
6 (tied) | June 14 | Adlai E Stevenson |
6 (tied) | July 24 | Martin Van Buren |
6 (tied) | July 31 | Andrew Johnson |
6 (tied) | September 14 | Aaron Burr |
6 (tied) | September 17 | Spiro Agnew |
6 (tied) | October 30 | James S Sherman |
6 (tied) | November 7 | John Nance Garner |
6 (tied) | November 19 | Richard Mentor Johnson |
6 (tied) | November 21 | Garret Hobart |
6 (tied) | November 22 | Henry Wilson |
6 (tied) | November 23 | Elbridge Gerry |
6 (tied) | November 25 | Thomas A Hendricks |
6 (tied) | December 31 | George M Dallas |
36 | All Other Days |
If we learn anything from this, it is: don’t be a Vice-President in November. It doesn’t work out well for you. But August is surprisingly safe.