Elected Vice President

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    “I was elected a Captain of Volunteers—a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “I begin to find out that nothing but virtue will do in this damned world. I am tolerably sick of vice which I have tried in its agreeable varieties, and mean on my return to cut all my dissolute acquaintance and leave off wine and “carnal company,” and betake myself to politics and Decorum.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “A President must call on many persons—some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)