Can you name the Presidents of the US that were previously Vice Presidents?

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VP to President Quiz

by farny31

Created Jan 7, 2010 in History
Featured Mar 23, 2010
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	csl:	Mar 23rd, 2010 at 18:18 GMT		25 points
	I'm always helped on these president quizzes by remembering the "Lesser-Known" presidents song from the Simpsons: "There's Taylor, there's Tyler, there's Fillmore and there's Hayes. There's William Henry Harrison--I died in 30 days!"

	WackyZacky:	Mar 23rd, 2010 at 18:25 GMT		0 points
	Super quiz got 13/14 missed Ford. Just love the way you've put the presidents in order of time they were president :)

	tjconn728:	Mar 23rd, 2010 at 18:30 GMT		18 points
	It's interesting that we often think of the vice presidency as the best position to run for president from, yet only five of these men were elected president without their predecessor having died or resigned first, and three of them did it more than 170 years ago.

	Golden:	Mar 23rd, 2010 at 18:35 GMT		6 points
	It doen not matter how many times I do a presidents quiz, is still does not sink in that there was a president called John Tyler.

	rk559:	Mar 23rd, 2010 at 18:40 GMT		14 points
	Poor Spiro Agnew... so close.

	treemeister2:	Mar 23rd, 2010 at 18:47 GMT		12 points
	@tjconn Back in the day most people regarded Secretary of State as a more prestigious position than VP so thats one reason for this occurrence. Also many VPs dont run or win the presidency because they are so closely associated with the previous administration for better or for worse

	library_guy:	Mar 23rd, 2010 at 18:48 GMT		4 points
	I got 13/14 ... and only missed Jefferson because I ran out of time to type it. Not bad for a Canadian.

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	Commodore:	Mar 23rd, 2010 at 18:51 GMT		31 points
	Darn! Missed Fillmore. And I voted for him, too!

	MattCortese:	Mar 23rd, 2010 at 18:54 GMT		1 point
	Another reason why it happened much more often a long time ago was that if you lost the election for Presidency you became the VP.

	Sally:	Mar 23rd, 2010 at 19:57 GMT		4 points
	I always take awhile to remember Nixon, I think it's because it wasn't consecutive. Still weird to think of him as a VP.

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	stephenbeck:	Mar 23rd, 2010 at 20:12 GMT		1 point
	Good guess there, MattCortese, but they fixed that after John Adams (the 2nd president!) was elected and Jefferson, a close rival, was VP. So that doesn't account for anyone after Jefferson going from VP to Prez, nor does it really account for Adams being GW's VP since they were not political rivals.

	jesusranch12:	Mar 23rd, 2010 at 20:51 GMT		-4 points
	i think there is too much time because its not to hard to guess the ones between when they are in order

	Pats4Life:	Mar 23rd, 2010 at 21:33 GMT		12 points
	Would be nice to have the Presidents they served under appear once you get them. Doesn't really make the quiz better, just thought it would be interesting.

	Illini13:	Mar 23rd, 2010 at 22:53 GMT		4 points
	I always remember John Tyler (who was Harrison's VP) by Harrison's campaign slogan (he had won a very famous battle called Tippecanoe), 'Tippecanoe and Tyler too!'

	DPA727:	Mar 23rd, 2010 at 22:57 GMT		6 points
	Shouldn't Andrew Johnson be listed as Republican since he assumed the presidency following the death of Abraham Lincoln as a Republican? It wasn't until the 1866 elections that he broke off from the Republicans.

	Bretzky:	Mar 23rd, 2010 at 23:12 GMT		5 points
	This may be nit picking, but John Tyler was not actually a member of the Whig Party. The Whigs wanted a regional balance to their ticket in 1844, but they couldn't find a Southerner from within their own party, so they nominated Tyler, who they believed to be in step with their party's views. When Tyler sought to run for President in 1848, he sought the Democratic Party nomination, not the Whig's.

	Bretzky:	Mar 23rd, 2010 at 23:13 GMT		9 points
	@Dirty D: Similar to my comment above, Andrew Johnson was never a member of the Republican Party. He never left the Democratic Party.

	cappy:	Mar 23rd, 2010 at 23:31 GMT		2 points
	Chester A. Arthur screws me again!

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	sten:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 01:13 GMT		-4 points
	Fun one. Sadly I can type all the presidents in less than a minute, so I never actually think about them. My own fault, maybe. ;P

	ad808:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 01:53 GMT		5 points
	Every time I see the name Chester A. Arthur I think of the Simpsons episode where Bart as John Wilkes Booth assassinates Milhouse/Lincoln. "You're next, Chester A. Arthur". Too bad I never think about him when I take a Sporcle quiz.

	atoratzy:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 02:03 GMT		-2 points
	Thought it was too easy when I discovered they were in chronological order. I wouldn't have got them all without noticing that.

	WCRoentgen:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 02:53 GMT		4 points
	@Commodore: You gave me a chuckle. Thanks.

	shakescene:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 03:17 GMT		1 point
	As I commented on an almost-identical quiz yesterday, you have to be consistent about middle names and initials. Even better, allow Chester Alan Arthur, Harry S Truman, Lyndon B Johnson, etc., i.e. all the reasonably-common variants.

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	shoesler:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 05:01 GMT		4 points
	"you are a moron." let's not turn this into youtube mstsmsms.