List of vice presidents of the United States by home state
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This is a list of vice presidents of the United States by place of primary affiliation. Some vice presidents have been born in one state, but are commonly associated with another. New York was the birth state of eight vice presidents, the most of any state: George Clinton, Daniel D. Tompkins, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Schuyler Colfax, William A. Wheeler, Theodore Roosevelt, and James S. Sherman. New York was also the home state of an additional four vice presidents—Aaron Burr, Chester A. Arthur, Levi P. Morton, and Nelson Rockefeller.
While political pundits have traditionally argued that the vice-presidential candidates have little effect on election outcomes in their home state, in 2016, political scientists Boris Heersink and Brenton D. Peterson argued that vice-presidential candidates did in fact offer a home-state advantage.[1] In an article published in American Politics Research, they presented analysis of elections spanning 1884 to 1992, which "suggest that vice-presidential candidates increase their tickets’ performance in their home states by 2.67 percentage points on average—considerably higher than previous studies have found."[1]
States of primary affiliation
Note: The flags presented for the states are the present day flags, which were not necessarily adopted in the times of the earliest vice presidents.
Vice presidents by state of primary affiliation
A list of U.S. vice presidents grouped by primary state of residence and birth, with priority given to residence. Only 23 out of the 50 states are represented. Vice presidents with an asterisk (*) did not primarily reside in their respective birth states (they were not born in the state listed below).
Birth dates and birthplaces of U.S. vice presidents
The first Vice President to be born was John Adams in Braintree, Massachusetts.[8]
† = Colony, pre–1776, rather than state
‡ = Territory or federal district, rather than state
| Birth order | Vice President | Date of birth | Birthplace | In office | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Adams | October 30, 1735 | Braintree, Massachusetts† | (1st) April 21, 1789 – March 4, 1797 | [8][9] |
| 2 | George Clinton | July 26, 1739 | Little Britain, New York† | (4th) March 4, 1805 – April 20, 1812 | |
| 3 | Thomas Jefferson | April 13, 1743 | Shadwell, Virginia† | (2nd) March 4, 1797 – March 4, 1801 | |
| 4 | Elbridge Gerry | July 17, 1744 | Marblehead, Massachusetts† | (5th) March 4, 1813 – November 23, 1814 | |
| 5 | Aaron Burr | February 6, 1756 | Newark, New Jersey† | (3rd) March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1805 | |
| 6 | Daniel D. Tompkins | June 21, 1774 | Scarsdale, New York† | (6th) March 4, 1817 – March 4, 1825 | |
| 7 | Richard M. Johnson | October 17, 1780 | Beargrass, Virginia[a] | (9th) March 4, 1837 – March 4, 1841 | |
| 8 | John C. Calhoun | March 18, 1782 | Abbeville, South Carolina | (7th) March 4, 1825 – December 28, 1832 | |
| 9 | Martin Van Buren | December 5, 1782 | Kinderhook, New York | (8th) March 4, 1833 – March 4, 1837 | |
| 10 | William R. King | April 7, 1786 | Sampson County, North Carolina | (13th) March 4, 1853 – April 18, 1853 | |
| 11 | John Tyler | March 29, 1790 | Charles City County, Virginia | (10th) March 4, 1841 – April 4, 1841 | |
| 12 | George M. Dallas | July 10, 1792 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | (11th) March 4, 1845 – March 4, 1849 | |
| 13 | Millard Fillmore | January 7, 1800 | Summerhill, New York | (12th) March 4, 1849 - July 9, 1850 | |
| 14 | Andrew Johnson | December 29, 1808 | Raleigh, North Carolina | (16th) March 4, 1865 – April 15, 1865 | |
| 15 | Hannibal Hamlin | August 27, 1809 | Paris, Massachusetts[b] | (15th) March 4, 1861 – March 4, 1865 | |
| 16 | Henry Wilson | February 16, 1812 | Farmington, New Hampshire | (18th) March 4, 1873 – November 22, 1875 | |
| 17 | William A. Wheeler | June 30, 1819 | Malone, New York | (19th) March 4, 1877 – March 4, 1881 | |
| 18 | Thomas A. Hendricks | September 7, 1819 | Fultonham, Ohio | (21st) March 4, 1885 – November 25, 1885 | |
| 19 | John C. Breckinridge | January 16, 1821 | Lexington, Kentucky | (14th) March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861 | |
| 20 | Schuyler Colfax | March 23, 1823 | New York City, New York | (17th) March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1873 | |
| 21 | Levi P. Morton | May 16, 1824 | Shoreham, Vermont | (22nd) March 4, 1889 – March 4, 1893 | |
| 22 | Chester A. Arthur | October 5, 1829 | Fairfield, Vermont | (20th) March 4, 1881 – September 19, 1881 | |
| 23 | Adlai E. Stevenson | October 23, 1835 | Christian County, Kentucky | (23rd) March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897 | |
| 24 | Garret Hobart | June 3, 1844 | Long Branch, New Jersey | (24th) March 4, 1897 – November 21, 1899 | |
| 25 | Charles W. Fairbanks | May 11, 1852 | Unionville Center, Ohio | (26th) March 4, 1905 – March 4, 1909 | |
| 26 | Thomas R. Marshall | March 14, 1854 | North Manchester, Indiana | (28th) March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921 | |
| 27 | James S. Sherman | October 24, 1855 | Utica, New York | (27th) March 4, 1909 – October 30, 1912 | |
| 28 | Theodore Roosevelt | October 27, 1858 | New York City, New York | (25th) March 4, 1901 - September 14, 1901 | |
| 29 | Charles Curtis | January 25, 1860 | Topeka, Kansas‡ | (31st) March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933 | |
| 30 | Charles G. Dawes | August 27, 1865 | Marietta, Ohio | (30th) March 4, 1925 – March 4, 1929 | |
| 31 | John N. Garner | November 22, 1868 | Detroit, Texas‡ | (32nd) March 4, 1933 – January 20, 1941 | |
| 32 | Calvin Coolidge | July 4, 1872 | Plymouth, Vermont | (29th) March 4, 1921 - August 2, 1923 | |
| 33 | Alben W. Barkley | November 24, 1877 | Lowes, Kentucky | (35th) January 20, 1949 – January 20, 1953 | |
| 34 | Harry S. Truman | May 8, 1884 | Lamar, Missouri | (34th) January 20, 1945 - April 12, 1945 | |
| 35 | Henry A. Wallace | October 7, 1888 | Orient, Iowa | (33rd) January 20, 1941 – January 20, 1945 | |
| 36 | Nelson Rockefeller | July 8, 1908 | Bar Harbor, Maine | (41st) December 19, 1974 – January 20, 1977 | |
| 37 | Lyndon B. Johnson | August 27, 1908 | Stonewall, Texas | (37th) January 20, 1961 - November 22, 1963 | |
| 38 | Hubert Humphrey | May 27, 1911 | Wallace, South Dakota | (38th) January 20, 1965 – January 20, 1969 | |
| 39 | Richard Nixon | January 9, 1913 | Yorba Linda, California | (36th) January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961 | |
| 40 | Gerald Ford | July 14, 1913 | Omaha, Nebraska | (40th) December 6, 1973 - August 9, 1974 | |
| 41 | Spiro Agnew | November 9, 1918 | Baltimore, Maryland | (39th) January 20, 1969 – October 10th, 1973 | |
| 42 | George H. W. Bush | June 12, 1924 | Milton, Massachusetts | (43rd) January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989 | |
| 43 | Walter Mondale | January 5, 1928 | Ceylon, Minnesota | (42nd) January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981 | |
| 44 | Dick Cheney | January 30, 1941 | Lincoln, Nebraska | (46th) January 20, 2001 – January 20, 2009 | |
| 45 | Joe Biden | November 20, 1942 | Scranton, Pennsylvania | (47th) January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017 | [4][10] |
| 46 | Dan Quayle | February 4, 1947 | Indianapolis, Indiana | (44th) January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993 | |
| 47 | Al Gore | March 31, 1948 | District of Columbia‡ | (45th) January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001 | |
| 48 | Mike Pence | June 7, 1959 | Columbus, Indiana | (48th) January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021 | |
| 49 | Kamala Harris | October 20, 1964 | Oakland, California | (49th) January 20, 2021 – January 20, 2025 | |
| 50 | JD Vance | August 2, 1984 | Middletown, Ohio | (50th) January 20, 2025 – Incumbent |
Map of vice presidential birthplaces
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