Vacancies Ranked By Duration Length
| Rank by length |
Reason | Start | End | Vice-president before vacancy |
President during vacancy |
Vice-president after vacancy |
Next in Line of Succession | Length in days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | April 4, 1841 | March 4, 1845 | John Tyler | John Tyler | George M. Dallas | Senate President pro tempore Samuel L. Southard Senate President pro tempore Willie Person Mangum |
1,430 |
| 2 | A | April 15, 1865 | March 4, 1869 | Andrew Johnson | Andrew Johnson | Schuyler Colfax | Senate President pro tempore Lafayette S. Foster Senate President pro tempore Benjamin Wade |
1,418 |
| 3 | B | April 18, 1853 | March 4, 1857 | William R. King | Franklin Pierce | John C. Breckinridge | Senate President pro tempore Lewis Cass Senate President pro tempore Jesse D. Bright Senate President pro tempore Charles E. Stuart Senate President pro tempore Jesse D. Bright Senate President pro tempore James Murray Mason |
1,415 |
| 4 | A | April 12, 1945 | January 20, 1949 | Harry S. Truman | Harry S. Truman | Alben W. Barkley | Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Secretary of State James F. Byrnes Secretary of State George Marshall House Speaker Joseph William Martin, Jr. House Speaker Sam Rayburn |
1,379 |
| 5 | A | September 14, 1901 | March 4, 1905 | Theodore Roosevelt | Theodore Roosevelt | Charles W. Fairbanks | Secretary of State John Hay | 1,267 |
| 6 | A | September 19, 1881 | March 4, 1885 | Chester A. Arthur | Chester A. Arthur | Thomas A. Hendricks | Senate President pro tempore Thomas F. Bayard Senate President pro tempore David Davis |
1,262 |
| 7 | B | November 25, 1885 | March 4, 1889 | Thomas A. Hendricks | Grover Cleveland | Levi P. Morton | House Speaker John G. Carlisle Senate President pro tempore John Sherman Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard |
1,195 |
| 8 | A | July 9, 1850 | March 4, 1853 | Millard Fillmore | Millard Fillmore | William R. King | Senate President pro tempore William R. King Senate President pro tempore David Rice Atchison |
970 |
| 9 | B | November 23, 1814 | March 4, 1817 | Elbridge Gerry | James Madison | Daniel D. Tompkins | Senate President pro tempore William H. Crawford | 832 |
| 10 | A | August 2, 1923 | March 4, 1925 | Calvin Coolidge | Calvin Coolidge | Charles G. Dawes | Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes | 580 |
| 11 | B | November 21, 1899 | March 4, 1901 | Garret Hobart | William McKinley | Theodore Roosevelt | Secretary of State John Hay | 469 |
| 12 | B | November 22, 1875 | March 4, 1877 | Henry Wilson | Ulysses S. Grant | William A. Wheeler | Senate President pro tempore Thomas W. Ferry | 468 |
| 13 | A | November 22, 1963 | January 20, 1965 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Lyndon B. Johnson | Hubert Humphrey | House Speaker John William McCormack | 425 |
| 14 | B | April 20, 1812 | March 4, 1813 | George Clinton | James Madison | Elbridge Gerry | House Speaker Langdon Cheves Senate President pro tempore John Gaillard |
318 |
| 15 | A | August 9, 1974 | December 19, 1974 | Gerald Ford | Gerald Ford | Nelson Rockefeller | House Speaker Carl Albert | 132 |
| 16 | B | October 30, 1912 | March 4, 1913 | James S. Sherman | William Howard Taft | Thomas R. Marshall | Secretary of State Philander C. Knox | 123 |
| 17 | C | December 28, 1832 | March 4, 1833 | John C. Calhoun | Andrew Jackson | Martin Van Buren | Senate President pro tempore Hugh Lawson White | 65 |
| 18 | C | October 10, 1973 | December 6, 1973 | Spiro Agnew | Richard Nixon | Gerald Ford | House Speaker Carl Albert | 57 |
Key to Reasons:
- A - Succeeded to Presidency following death or resignation of the President
- B - Death of the Vice President
- C - Resignation of the Vice President
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