Vice Presidents Who Served in Other Offices After Being VP
- John C. Calhoun, US Senator and Secretary of State
- Richard M. Johnson, Kentucky House of Representatives
- John Tyler, the provisional Confederate Congress
- George M. Dallas, Ambassador to Great Britain
- John C. Breckenridge, US Senator and Confederate Secretary of War
- Hannibal Hamlin, US Senator
- Andrew Johnson, US Senator
- Levi P. Morton, Governor of New York
- Thomas R. Marshall, the Federal Coal Commission
- Charles G. Dawes, Ambassador to Great Britain, Chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
- Henry Wallace, Secretary of Commerce
- Alben W. Barkley, US Senator
- Hubert H. Humphrey, US Senator
- Walter F. Mondale, Ambassador to Japan.
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