If Biden wins and completes a second term, will he have the longest VP+POTUS cumulative tenure?

[Ferguson97]

He would have been VP for a full 8 years and POTUS for a full 8 years, for a total of 16 years in the White House. Has anyone else accomplished this before?

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

No the closest was Nixon serving 8 in as Veep and 6 yrs as Prez and George H Bush 8 yrs as Veep and 4 yrs as Prez

[Tekken_Guy]

He just needs to make it to August 9, 2026.

[President Johnson]

He just needs to make it to August 9, 2026.

This.

It's also interesting that Nixon and Biden are the only former vice presidents to win the presidency. Though Nixon was out for eight years, Biden just four.

[Kabam]

He just needs to make it to August 9, 2026.

This.

It's also interesting that Nixon and Biden are the only former vice presidents to win the presidency. Though Nixon was out for eight years, Biden just four.

Bush senior?

[SWE]

He just needs to make it to August 9, 2026.

This.

It's also interesting that Nixon and Biden are the only former vice presidents to win the presidency. Though Nixon was out for eight years, Biden just four.

Bush senior?

Bush Sr won as an incumbent VP, not former

[Sir Mohamed]

Yup, though Nixon and FDR were nominated 5 times on a national ticket, narrowly surpassing Biden in that regard. 2024 would be the fourth election that has Biden nominated on a major party ticket for either VP or POTUS. FDR got 1920 for VP and 1932-44 for prez. Nixon got 1952 and 1956 for VP, and 1960, 1968, 1972 for prez.

[President Johnson]

He just needs to make it to August 9, 2026.

This.

It's also interesting that Nixon and Biden are the only former vice presidents to win the presidency. Though Nixon was out for eight years, Biden just four.

Bush senior?

Bush Sr won as an incumbent VP, not former

Yeah, that's why I wrote former vice president, meaning at the time of the election. Poppy Bush was the incumbent vice president in November 1988. Interestingly, the prior vice president to be successful in a White House bid was Martin Van Buren all the way back to 1836 (excluding vice presidents that ascended to office via succession and were later elected to a full term).

[TDAS04]

Yes.  No one has served 2 terms as both Vice President AND President.  Nixon’s the only one ever elected twice to each office, and we know what happened during his second presidential term.

He just needs to make it to August 9, 2026.

This.

It's also interesting that Nixon and Biden are the only former vice presidents to win the presidency. Though Nixon was out for eight years, Biden just four.

Bush senior?

Bush Sr won as an incumbent VP, not former

Yeah, that's why I wrote former vice president, meaning at the time of the election. Poppy Bush was the incumbent vice president in November 1988. Interestingly, the prior vice president to be successful in a White House bid was Martin Van Buren all the way back to 1836 (excluding vice presidents that ascended to office via succession and were later elected to a full term).

Yeah, only 4 sitting vice presidents have been elected President:  John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, and George H. W. Bush.  That’s a bit mind-blowing.

[Pres Mike]

He just needs to make it to August 9, 2026.

This.

It's also interesting that Nixon and Biden are the only former vice presidents to win the presidency. Though Nixon was out for eight years, Biden just four.

Bush senior?

Bush Sr won as an incumbent VP, not former

Yeah, that's why I wrote former vice president, meaning at the time of the election. Poppy Bush was the incumbent vice president in November 1988. Interestingly, the prior vice president to be successful in a White House bid was Martin Van Buren all the way back to 1836 (excluding vice presidents that ascended to office via succession and were later elected to a full term).

That is the roughly 100 years between Andrew Jackson and WW2, the Vice Presidency wasn't worth a bucket of warm piss (to quote a VP)

While there were VPs who tried to become president, it took Truman coming into office and learning about the Atomic Bomb for the vice presidency to finally be taken seriously. Thus presidential material.

[Orser67]

Darn, I got here late and everyone already mentioned all the good trivia.

How about, if you add Biden's 36 years in the Senate to his (hypothetical) 16 years in the executive branch, you get 52 years, which is a longer tenure in federal elective office than all but six people (John Dingell holds the record for the most years, at 59).