14 US Presidents served as Vice President before becoming President. The other 29 (through 2012) were never Vice President.
Never VP :
Washington, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Jackson,
William H. Harrison, Polk, Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan,
Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Cleveland,
Benjamin Harrison, McKinley, Taft, Wilson, Harding,
Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Carter,
Reagan, Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama.
Served as VP:
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Martin Van Buren
John Tyler (succeeded William H. Harrison)
Millard Fillmore (succeeded Zachary Taylor)
Andrew Johnson (succeeded Abraham Lincoln)
Chester A. Arthur (succeeded John Garfield)
Theodore Roosevelt (succeeded William McKinley, re-elected)
Calvin Coolidge (succeeded Warren G. Harding, re-elected)
Harry S. Truman (succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt, re-elected)
Lyndon B. Johnson (succeeded John F. Kennedy, re-elected)
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford (replaced Spiro T. Agnew, succeeded Richard Nixon, who resigned)
George H.W. Bush
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One of the few constitutional duties of the Vice-President is to serve as President of the US Senate.
In the US there is a line of succession should a president be unable to serve due to illness or death. The next in line to serve as president is the Vice President. This was seen when President Nixon resigned and Vice president Ford became president. Should a vice president be unable to serve, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives becomes the new president.
The 14th president of the US was Franklin Pierce. He was also a Senator and a member of the House of Representatives but never a vice president. There were nine presidents who were also vice presidents. They were Tyler, Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge, Truman, Lyndon Johnson, and Ford.
No US presidents were from the state of Delaware.Rutherford Hayes, the 19th President was born in the town of Delaware, Ohio.Joe Biden, the current vice-president is a former senator from Delaware.
Through Joseph Biden (January 20, 2009), there have been 47 men who served as Vice President of the US, all but two of them elected to the position. The first 3 Vice Presidents were actually "runners-up" for President, until the 12th Amendment was ratified in 1804.Two Vice Presidents, George Clinton and John C. Calhoun, served under 2 presidents, but several Presidents had more than 1 Vice President. Four Vice Presidents who succeeded to the office had no Vice President of their own (Tyler, Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, and Arthur).Both Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockfeller were appointed under the terms of the 25th Amendment.