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Presidents Day Names: The Veeps’ Turn
Presidents Day Names: The Veeps’ Turn
Jan 4, 2025 7:26 AM

  When Presidents Day rolls around, on our site and others, a lot of attention is paid to the influential names of our past presidents—Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Tyler, Taylor, Truman, Lincoln, Kennedy et al—and sometimes the names of their wives and children as well.  And so I thought that this year it might be interesting to take a look at their often forgotten Vice-Presidents, to see what noteworthy names we might find among them.

  Of course several of them did step up to the presidency themselves.

  Here are the best-named ones, along with the presidents they served under.

  Aaron Burr—Thomas Jefferson

  Adlai E. Stevenson—Grover Cleveland

  Alben Barkley—Harry S. Truman

  Calhoun, John—John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson

  Calvin Coolidge—Warren G. Harding

  Cheney, Dick—George W. Bush

  Chester A. Arthur—James A. Garfield

  Clinton, George—Thomas Jefferson

  Curtis, Charles—Herbert Hoover

  Dallas, George—James K. Polk

  Elbridge Gerry—James Madison

  Ford, Gerald—Richard Nixon

  Garner, John Nance—Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Garret Hobart—William (https://nameberry.com/babyname/[McKinley](https://nameberry.com/babyname/McKinley)

  [Gore](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Gore), [Al](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Al)—[Bill](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Bill) [Clinton](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Clinton)

  [Hannibal](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Hannibal) [Hamlin](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Hamlin)—[Abraham](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Abraham) [Lincoln](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Lincoln)

  [Humphrey](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Humphrey), [Hubert](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Hubert)—[Lyndon](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Lyndon) [Johnson](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Johnson)

  [Jefferson](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Jefferson), [Thomas](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Thomas)—[John](https://nameberry.com/babyname/John) [Adams](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Adams)

  [King](https://nameberry.com/babyname/King), [William](https://nameberry.com/babyname/William)—[Franklin](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Franklin) [Pierce](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Pierce)

  [Levi](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Levi) P. [Morton](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Morton)—[Benjamin](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Benjamin) [Harrison](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Harrison)

  [Marshall](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Marshall), [Thomas](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Thomas)—[Woodrow](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Woodrow) [Wilson](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Wilson)

  [Millard](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Millard) [Fillmore](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Fillmore)—[Zachary](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Zachary) [Taylor](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Taylor)

  [Nelson](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Nelson) Rockefeller—[Gerald](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Gerald) [Ford](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Ford)

  Quayle, James Danforth ([Dan](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Dan))—[George](https://nameberry.com/babyname/George) [Bush](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Bush)

  [Schuyler](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Schuyler) Colfax —[Ulysses](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Ulysses) S. [Grant](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Grant)

  [Spiro](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Spiro) Agnew—[Richard](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Richard) [Nixon](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Nixon) (not the best namesake as Agnew resigned in ignominy)

  [Theodore](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Theodore) [Roosevelt](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Roosevelt)—[William](https://nameberry.com/babyname/William) [McKinley](https://nameberry.com/babyname/[McKinley](https://nameberry.com/babyname/McKinley)

  [Truman](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Truman), [Harry](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Harry)—[Franklin](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Franklin) D. [Roosevelt](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Roosevelt)

  [Wallace](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Wallace), [Henry](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Henry)—[Franklin](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Franklin) D. [Roosevelt](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Roosevelt)

  [Walter](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Walter) Mondale—[Jimmy](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Jimmy) [Carter](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Carter)

  [Wheeler](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Wheeler), [William](https://nameberry.com/babyname/William)—[Rutherford](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Rutherford) B. [Hayes](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Hayes)

  [Wilson](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Wilson), [Henry](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Henry)—[Ulysses](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Ulysses) S.  [Grant](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Grant)

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