Draft:List of vice presidents of the United States by previous experience
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The Vice President of the United States is the second-highest elected position within the federal government of the United States, following the President. Among the responsibilities of the position including presiding over the Senate, as well as serving as the tie-breaker vote when needed. The position also ranks first in the line of succession.
In earlier elections in the history of the United States, electors cast two votes: one each for two candidates, without regard for which candidate the elector wanted in one of the two positions. In this system, the vice president was determined by the runner-up in the presidential election.[1] However, since this allowed the possibility of the president and the vice president to be emerging from two different political ideologies, there was risk of disagreement between the two highest offices in the government. Therefore, the Twelfth Amendment was passed, which modified the process for electing a vice president: the Electoral College would cast one vote specifically for the president, and a second vote specifically for the vice president.[2]
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- ^ "State" refers to the state generally considered "home", not necessarily the state where the vice president was born
- ^ Rathbone, Mark (December 2011). "US Vice Presidents". History Review. No. 71. London: History Today. Archived from the original on February 19, 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
- ^ Fried, Charles. "Essays on Amendment XII: Electoral College". The Heritage Guide to the Constitution. The Heritage Foundation. Archived from the original on August 22, 2020. Retrieved February 20, 2018.