Questions:
1) How many presidents had served as vice-presidents?
2) For two years the U.S. had a president and vice-president in charge who, due to extenuating circumstances, had not been elected to office. Who were they?
3) Elvis Presley was born in this town on this date in 1935.
4) Until 1804 when this amendment was passed, the office of Vice-President had been given to whoever had the second highest number of votes in a presidential election. The amendment established that the electoral college voted separately for a president and vice-president. Which amendment was it?
Answers:
1) There were 14 presidents who had been VPs: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, Millard Fillmore,Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush.
2) Gerald Ford Ford and Nelson Rockefeller. Disgraced VP Spiro Agnew resigned in 1973 and Nixon appointed Gerald Ford to take his place. When the Watergate scandal caused Nixon to resign the following year, Ford assumed the presidency and appointed Nelson Rockefeller as Vice-President.
3) Tupelo, Mississippi.
4) The 12th Amendment allowed for the electoral college to vote separately for a president and vice-president. In time, the presidential candidate gained sufficient power that he could select his own running mate.
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