In 1796, when John Adams was elected President, the Vice Presidency went to his opponent, Thomas Jefferson. At that time, instead of electing the Vice President separately, whoever finished second in the Presidential election became Vice President, and Jefferson received more votes than Adams' running mate, Thomas Pinckney.
In 1864, when Republican President Abraham Lincoln ran for reelection, instead of running with his Vice President, Hannibal Hamlin, again, he ran with Democrat Andrew Johnsonas National Union Party candidates.
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Thomas Jefferson was not of the same political party as John Adams. This occurred because candidates ran alone, and the man with the most votes became president while the man with the second highest amount of votes became the vice-president.
there are two vice presidents that were different political parties from the president
The Twelfth Amendment under the current party system guarantees that the president and vice president will be from the same party.
It doesn't because vice president Hendricks was in a different political party than the president at thay time.
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In modern elections, the President and VP run on the same ticket, and are of the same party. In the first few elections, the winner became President and the runner-up was VP, so they were usually from different parties. An example is that John Adams was a Federalist while his VP Thomas Jefferson was a Republican.
In USA executive ranks, a Group Vice President is at the same level as an Executive Vice President. A Group Vice President ranks above a Senior Vice President and a Vice President, and will typically have multiple Senior Vice Presidents and/or Vice Presidents reporting to them.