Why Have There Been 45 Presidents and 49 Vice Presidents?

A brief history of the presidencies and vice presidencies to address the question of why there is a discrepancy between the number of Presidents and the number of Vice Presidents. Of the course of United States history there have been 49 vice presidencies yet only 46 presidencies. This is because not all of the presidential and vice-presidential terms have lined up evenly.

Thomas Jefferson served two terms as the America's president; however his vice president Aaron Burr was VPOTUS for only the first term. He was replaced with George Clinton. As Clinton belonged to the same party as James Madison he also served as Madison's VP.

John C. Calhoun also served under two different presidents, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.

The first president to die in office was William Henry Harrison. John Tyler then assumed the presidency. At the time, the Constitution had no provision for a sitting president to assign a new Vice President Intra-term. Therefore, the office remained vacant for the full length of Tyler's term. This would then happen seven more times with the deaths of Zachary Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, Warren G. Harding, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. Respectively, they were replaced by Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S. Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson.

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