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A vice-president does not have to resign his office in order to run for President.
Martin Van Buren, Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, George H. W. Bush and Al Gore all ran for President while holding the office of vice-president.
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Can a sitting vice president who has served eight years in office under the same president be picked to run again as a vice president by another person running for president?
Legal schollars are not agreed on this point, but there is no explicit limit in the Constitution to how many terms a person may be elected to the office of Vice-President. The two term limit applies only to the office of President. YES they can
Would the governor of Virginia have to resign office to run for vice president?
Yes but only after winning the presidential-vice presidential election, the Governor would have to resign his position prior to taking office as VP.
Can a president run again if they served 4 years but try again and lose?
yes. two term limit, does not have to be back to back. Technically it's 10 years. A vice president that takes office in the event the president can no longer run the country can run for office an additional 2 terms UNLESS he took power prior to the 2nd complete year of the prior president. If the elected president can no longer remain in power and the vice president takes over the office before the second year into that term he can only run for office himself once.
When can a vice president run for office?
A candidate for vice president of the U.S. does not run separately. The VP candidate is selected as a running mate by the candidate for president, and they run as a team. Back in the beginning, they did run separately: the person with the most votes was president, and the one with the second most was vice president. That system didn't last very long; rivals who'd fought for election didn't usually team up too well. (But it could happen within a party!) A VP can run for president later if the person's party selects him or her as the candidate or if the person decides to run independently.
Did John Tyler run for president?
Tyler ran for vice-president in 1840 with Wm Henry Harrison heading the ticket. He became president because Harrison died soon after taking office. Tyler never ran for president .
