List of Alternate Presidents

[President Johnson]

FDR does not run again in 1940.

1941-1944: Wendell Willkie/Earl Warren (died in office of heart attack)
1944-1953: Earl Warren/Thomas Dewey (Dewey starting in 1945)
1953-1961: Goodwin Knight/Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
1961-1969: Lyndon B. Johnson/John F. Kenndy
1969-1977: Gerald Ford/Thomas Kuchel
1977-1978: Hubert Humphrey/Jimmy Carter (HHH died in office of cancer)
1978-1981: Jimmy Carter/Ted Kenndy (Kennedy appointed) (defeated)
1981-1985: George HW Bush/Ronald Reagan (defeated)
1985-1993: Lawton Chiles/Jerry Brown
1993-1997: Bob Dole/Jack Kemp (defeated)
1997-2001: Jerry Brown/John Kerry (defeated)
2001-2009: Richard Lugar/Tom Ridge
2009-2017: Joe Biden/Barack Obama
2017-2021: Jeff Flake/Chris Christie (defeated)
2021-2029: Barack Obama/Kirsten Gilibrand

[President Johnson]

There are two presidents serving together from 1949 to 1953?

Now removed Barkley. He would have lost a 1948 race against President Warren.

[President Johnson]

1913-1919: Theodore Roosevelt¹/Hiram Johnson
1919-1925: Hiram Johnson/Calvin Coolidge
1925-1933: Herbert Hoover/Charles Curtis
1933-1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt/John Nance Garner
1941-1949: Wendell Willkie/Earl Warren
1949-1953: Alben W. Barkley/Harry S. Truman²
1953-1961: Earl Warren/Thomas E. Dewey
1961-1969: Lyndon B. Johnson/John F. Kennedy
1969-1973: John F. Kennedy/John Connally²
1973-1978: Nelson Rockefeller³/George Romney (1973-1977), Gerald Ford (1977-1978)
1978-1981: Gerald Ford⁴/Richard Schweiker (appointed)
1981-1985: Hugh Carey/Walter Mondale²
1985-1989: Donald Rumsfeld/Bob Dole²
1989-1997: Lawton Chiles/Lloyd Bentsen
1997-2005: Richard Lugar/Elizabeth Dole
2005-2009: John Kerry/Bill Graham²
2009-2017: Jon Huntsman/George Pataki
2017-2025: Kirsten Gillibrand/Jay Nixon


1= Died in office; January 6, 1919
2= Defeated for reelection
3= Died of a heart attack; October 20, 1978
4= Did not seek renomination due to challenge from Ronald Reagan