Can you name the U.S. Vice-President given the following clues?

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Notable FactsVice-PresidentAdditional Information
To date the youngest vice president in U.S. history.
Fled to Cuba fearing that he would be tried for treason following the Civil War.
He was the first Vice President from the Republican Party.
Served as VP for two consecutive terms, from 1817 to 1825, the last person to do so until the early 20th century.
While he served as governor, the Massachusetts legislature redrew the boundaries of the state legislature to favor his party.
Most remembered for a leadership crisis following a stroke that incapacitated Wilson in October 1919.
His close relationship with James Buchanan has prompted some to speculate that the two had a sexual relationship, though there is no direct evidence.
Was awarded the Silver Star by MacArthur, despite seeing little to no combat.
The only U.S. vice-president to have been a member of Alpha Phi Alpha.
The oldest person to have served as VP.
His presidential inauguration was the first ever televised nationally.
As president, earned the title, 'The Father of Civil Service.'
Was the longest-lived President and third-longest-lived Vice-President.
Wrote, 'A Manual of Parliamentary Practice,' a version of which the U.S. Congress follows to this day.
The only U.S. VP or President to have died on his birthday.
He and President Grant formed the youngest presidential team in U.S. history until Clinton/Gore in 1993.
The first U.S. vice president to assume the office of president upon the death of his predecessor.
Was the last president to have been a WWII veteran.
Had a common law wife named Julia Chinn, who was of 1/8 African ancestry.
Fatally shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
Introduced honeydew to China.
Was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in any field.
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Was part of the longest-living post-presidential team in American history.
His acceptance of the 1944 VP nomination was jokingly referred to as the second Missouri Compromise.
While he was Vice President, the official Vice Presidential residence was established at Number One Observatory Circle on the grounds of the United States Naval Observatory.
He was the first Vice-President to die in office.
His failed presidential bid was the only time in history that the Supreme Court may have determined the outcome of a presidential election.
Became president at the youngest age of any other U.S. president in history.
Being relatively unknown, he was nominated to the 1876 Republican ballot purely as a joke.
Remains the only Vice President (who did not also serve as President) whose portrait appeared on U.S. paper money.
On May 8, 1942, he delivered his famous speech, 'Century of the Common Man'
In 1911, he became the first sitting Vice President to fly in an airplane.
Elected as the first Governor of the State of New York in 1777.
Donated his entire salary as VP to programs to help inner-city families and fund arts programs.
He was the first person with significant acknowledged Native American ancestry to reach either of the two highest offices in the U.S. government.
Known as the father of modern political campaigning.
In 2007 was co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Coined the term, 'Give 'em Hell Harry' while campaigning with Truman
Chairman and CEO of Halliburton Company from 1995 to 2000.
In 1996, he published his memoirs entitled 'Standing Firm'
Won a Grammy award in 2009.
26th VP of the United States, a city in Alaska is named for him.
The only vice-president ever elected by the United States Senate.
The only man to serve as both Speaker of the House and President of the Senate on the same day (March 4, 1933).
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As VP, became the target of a satirical song by Tom Lehrer.
Along with John C. Calhoun, was the only Vice-President to serve two Presidents.
He founded the private University of Buffalo, which today is the public SUNY Buffalo.
He almost became president when Cleveland secretly had his entire jaw removed (due to oral cancer) and replaced with an artificial device.
Known as the 'Great Nullificator' or 'Arch Nullifier'
As McKinley's VP, he is considered one of the most powerful VPs in U.S. history.
Vice-President who served under James K. Polk
He and John Nance Garner were the only two Americans to have served as both House Speaker and VP.
Co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925.
Famously quiet, news of his death prompted Dorothy Parker to ask, 'How can they tell?'
Famously blamed popular media, such as the show 'Murphy Brown,' for moral decay in the U.S.
As President of the Senate, cast more tie-breaking votes (29) than any other Vice-President.
Gave an apparently rambling and drunken speech during his inauguration ceremony as VP.
Has the distinction of being the first Roman Catholic Vice-President.
Would become the only President of the United States who was never elected President or Vice-President.
The only Vice President in United States history to resign because of criminal charges.
The longest-lived VP in U.S. history.
Nixon used his desk while in the oval office, thinking that it had belonged to someone else.
As VP, he once complained, 'My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.'
Was also the first president to have been born a U.S. citizen.
Engaged in the impromptu 'Kitchen Debate' with Nikita Khrushchev concerning the merits of capitalism verus communism.
Was the first vice president to have an office in the White House.
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