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Title:
Vice presidents : a biographical dictionary / edited by L. Edward Purcell.
Edition:
4th ed.
Publisher:
Facts On File,
Copyright Date:
c2010
Description:
vi, 554 p. : ports. ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Vice-Presidents--Dictionaries.--Dictionaries.
Other Authors:
Purcell, L. Edward.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. Thomas Jefferson -- Aaron Burr -- George Clinton -- Elbridge Gerry -- Daniel D. Tompkins -- John Caldwell Calhoun -- Martin Van Buren -- Richard Mentor Johnson -- John Tyler -- George Mifflin Dallas -- Millard Fillmore -- William Rufus de Vane King -- John Cabell Breckinridge -- Hannibal Hamlin -- Andrew Johnson -- Schuyler Colfax -- Henry Wilson -- William A. Wheeler -- Chester Alan Arthur -- Thomas Andrews Hendricks -- Levi Parsons Morton -- Adlai Ewing Stevenson -- Garret Augustus Hobart -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Charles Warren Fairbanks -- James Schoolcraft Sherman -- Thomas Riley Marshall -- Calvin Coolidge -- Charles Gates Dawes -- Charles Curtis -- John Nance Garner -- Henry Agard Wallace -- Harry S. Truman -- Alben W. Barkley -- Richard Milhous Nixon -- Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr. -- Spiro Theodore Agnew -- Gerald Rudolph Ford -- Nelson A. Rockefeller -- Walter F. Mondale -- George Herbert Walker Bush -- J. Danforth Quayle -- Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. -- Richard Bruce Cheney -- Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.
Summary:
The majority of our vice presidents have been people of extraordinarily high aspiration, ability and achievement. For some, the vice presidency was the deflating end of a political career; for others, the office was a stepping-stone to the presidency.
ISBN:
081607707X (hc : alk. paper)
9780816077076 (hc : alk. paper) :
OCLC:
(OCoLC)417445640
LCCN:
2009026068
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

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