Richard Nixon is the only one on this list who was not serving as vice president when he was elected.
Gerald Ford was the only vice president who became president by ascension, secured his party's nomination, and then lost in the general election.
Vice presidents who later served in other offices:
John C. Calhoun, US Senator and US Secretary of State
Richard M. Johnson, Kentucky House of Representatives
John Tyler, Provisional Confederate States Congress
George M. Dallas, US Ambassador to Great Britain
John C. Breckinridge, US Senator and Confederate States Secretary of War
Hannibal Hamlin, US Senator and US Ambassador to Spain
Andrew Johnson, US Senator
Levi P. Morton, Governor of New York
Thomas R. Marshall, United States Coal Commission
Charles G. Dawes, US Ambassador to Great Britain, Chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Henry Wallace, US Secretary of Commerce
Alben W. Barkley, US Senator
Hubert H. Humphrey, US Senator
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