who was the only president not to be elected president or vice president?
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The only president not to be elected as President was Gerald Ford. He was nominated as Vice President after Spiro Agnew resigned as Vice President and Ford became the President after President Richard Nixon resigned after Watergate. He served from August 9, 1974 to January 20, 1977.
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The President was Ronald Reagan.  The Vice President was George Bush, father to current United States' President G.W. Bush.\n\nThe election which made George Bush, Sr., the president of the United States of America was in 1988, not 1987 (My first election I got to vote in, too).  He was inaugurated on January 20, 1989.  From Election Day to Inauguration, the man who is to be inaugurated is called the President Elect and he has no powers as president until  Inauguration Day, when he takes the Oath of Office.
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There have been two that I know of:\n\nAndrew Johnson was voted into the Senate in 1874, 6 years after he completed Abraham Lincoln's term of office, and John Quincy Adams was elected to the House of Representatives in 1830, two years after being defeated in his bid for reelection to the Presidency.
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Under the original Articles of Confederation, John Hanson was the first President of the United States, an oft-forgotten historical figure. Under the Constitution of the United States, the presidential system we usually think about, George Washington was the first president, and the only one never to reside in the White House.  It has never had a prime minister.
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James Buchanan, 15th President of the USA.\n\nI studied him at college as part of a course relating to Abe Lincoln whom he preceded.\n\nHe was also the only Secretary of State to also become President.
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Worst president: Grant (see whiskey ring: first link)\n\nBest: Lincoln (How could you not choose him)\n\nHorniest: Clinton (Who else would keep head of state waiting while he got serviced)\n\nDrunkest: Grant (he was known to hit the bottle, during the civil war)
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if the president and vice president are both incapacitated than the third person in line to the presidency is....you guessed it..the speaker of the house. which would be nancy palosi.  YAHOO!
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If the Electoral College fails to award a majority to a candidate, the President is elected by the Senate and the Vice President is elected by the House of Representatives.  If that happens, then theoretically ANYBODY can get to either position, whether they were candidates or not.\n\nThis hasn't happened - yet. So far, the Electoral College has always come up with a winner, though not always the same winner as the voters had in mind.
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FDR did NOT pass such a law.  As a result of FDR breaking the tradition set by George Washington of not running for a 3rd term, The 22nd amendment to the Constitution was passed.  It states that 'No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.'  The only provision that MAY prevent such a person from being elected Vice President is the 12th amendment.  The last sentence of which reads 'But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.  It is interesting to note that while the 22nd amendment prevents a person from being ELECTED to the office of President more than twice, the Constitution does not specifically prohibit a person from Serving as President more that twice.
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I really do not like to think that any of these vice presidents were a heartbeat away so to speak, but I would have to say in my lifetime there were two Lyndon Johnson who stepped in for Kennedy when he was killed and while I do not agree with his politics Gerald Ford, who took over for Nixon when he resigned in disgrace.
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Andrew Johnson and Slick Willie Clinton.  Neither was convicted.  \n\nNixon was never impeached.  He resigned under the threat thereof.
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The U.S. Consitution, as adopted in the 18th century, did provide for succession to the office of the President, but did not provide a way to fill a vacancy in the office of Vice President.\n\nThis was covered by the 25th Amendment, which was adopted in 1967.  The 25th Amendment includes the following text, in section 2: "Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress."\n\nAnd quoting from the relevant article in Wikipedia (linked below): "Gerald Ford was the first Vice President selected by this method, after the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1974; after succeeding to the Presidency, Ford nominated Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President."\n\nSo the answer is not that the Speaker of the House would become the Vice President, but rather that the President selects someone to fill the vacancy, and Congress confirms the appointment.
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There have never been any Roman Catholic vice-presidents of the United States.\n\nThere was only one Catholic president, and that was John F. Kennedy.
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Richard Nixon is the best known.  \n\nAlso a bunch of people from previous generations: Grover Cleveland, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison.\n\nBut let's not forget Ronald Reagan, who ran in the Republican primary in 1976 and lost to Ford, and had been in a primary at least once before (1968?).  Also George H.W. Bush (the first Bush), who lost the 1980 primary to Reagan, took the VP nod, then came back to be president later.
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definately, Rice.\nThe idea of them running pres and vice is absurd. Not a chance. That would be one messed up presidency.
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Spiro Agnew was Vice-President with Richard Nixon.  He resigned after charged with tax evasion from receiving a bribe when he was Governor of Maryland.  He was only the second Vice-President to ever resign from office.  Nixon then selected Gerald Ford to replace him.
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"Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress."\n. . -- 25th Amendment, Section 2.\n\nThat has already happened, but not due to impeachment. Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon's Veep, was connected to crimes he committed while in state politics. If he had not resigned, he surely would have been impeached, so this is almost, but not quite, the same as your scenario.\n\nOf course, Nixon himself resigned later to prevent HIS OWN impeachment over the Watergate scandal. Thus, Gerald Ford became the only person ever to hold the office of President without facing a nationwide election.