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Biography of Vice President Alben W. Barkley (1949-1953)

Presidency of Harry Truman

Barkley, as Vice President, was in a class by himself. He had the complete confidence of both the President and the Senate.

â€”Harry S. Truman » read more »

Biography of Vice President Henry Agard Wallace (1941-1945)

Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt

No matter what he does, it is always going to seem faintly ridiculous, and no matter how he acts, it is always going to seem faintly patheticâ€”at least to the cold-eyed judgments of the Hill. â€”Allen Drury » read more »

Biography of Vice President John Nance Garner (1933-1941)

Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt

My belief has always been in Executive leadership, not Executive rulership.

â€”John Nance Garner » read more »

Biography of Vice President Charles Curtis (1929-1933)

Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover

His politics were always purely personal. Issues never bothered him. -- William Allen White

In the spring of 1932, George and Ira Gershwin's Broadway musical, "Of Thee I Sing," spoofed Washington politics, including a vice president named Alexander Throttlebottom, who could get inside the White House only on public tours. The tour guide, who failed to recognize Throttlebottom, at one point engaged him in a discussion of the vice-presidency: » read more »

Biography of Vice President Charles G. Dawes (1925-1929)

Presidency of Calvin Coolidge

I should hate to think that the Senate was as tired of me at the beginning of my service as I am of the Senate at the end. â€”Charles G. Dawes » read more »

Biography of Vice President Thomas R. Marshall (1913-1921)

Presidency of Woodrow Wilson

[I]t has not been the practice for Presidents to throw any of the burdens of their office upon the Vice President. He rules the dignified and at times irascible Senate and reflects upon the inactive character of his job. . . . He has an automobile provided for him . . . but has to buy his own tires, gasoline and supplies.

â€”Washington Evening Star, March 2, 1913 » read more »

Biography of Vice President James S. Sherman (1909-1912)

Presidency of William H. Taft

You will have to act on your own account. I am to be Vice President and acting as a messenger boy is not part of the duties as Vice President.

â€”James Schoolcraft Sherman to President William Howard Taft » read more »

Biography of Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks (1905-1909)

Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt

My name must not be considered for Vice President and if it is presented, I wish it withdrawn. Please withdraw it. â€”Charles Warren Fairbanks » read more »

Biography of Vice President Garret A. Hobart (1897-1899)

Presidency of William McKinley

For the first time in my recollection, and the last for that matter, the Vice President was recognized as somebody, as a part of the Administration, as a part of the body over which he presided.

â€”Veteran newspaper correspondent » read more »

Biography of Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson (1893-1897)

Presidency of Grover Cleveland â€“ second

"Has Mr. Cleveland yet consulted you to that extent?" Vice President Stevenson was once asked. "Not yet," he replied. "But, there are still a few weeks of my term remaining." » read more »

Biography of Vice President Levi P. Morton (1889-1893)

Presidency of Benjamin Harrison

Business experience had taught him conservatism. He never was influenced by crazy theorists. â€”Senator Thomas C. Platt » read more »

Biography of Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks (1885)

Presidency of Grover Cleveland â€“ first

There were no neutral tints in his own political colors. â€”Senator Daniel Voorhees » read more »

Biography of Vice President William A. Wheeler (1877-1881)

Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes

Who is Wheeler? â€”Rutherford B. Hayes » read more »

Biography of Vice President Henry Wilson (1873-1875)

Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant

He was not learned, he was not eloquent, he was not logical in a high sense, he was not always consistent in his political actions, and yet he gained the confidence of the people, and he retained it to the end of his life.

â€”Senator George Boutwell » read more »

Biography of Vice President Schuyler Colfax (1869-1873)

Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant

The Vice Presidency is an elegant office whose occupant must find it his principal business to try to discover what is the use of there being such an office at all.

â€”Indianapolis Journal, March 7, 1871 » read more »