Vice-presidency Definition

Vice-presidency Sentence Examples

• He received nine electoral votes for the vice-presidency in 1808, and in 1812 was an elector on the Madison ticket.

• In September 1831 the party at a national convention in Baltimore nominated as its candidates for the presidency and vice-presidency William Wirt of Maryland and Amos Ellmaker (1787-1851) of Pennsylvania; and in the election of the following year it secured the seven electoral votes of the state of Vermont.

• After the breach between Jackson and Calhoun, Van Buren was clearly the most prominent candidate for the vice-presidency.

• No greater impetus than this could have been given to Van Buren's candidacy for the vice-presidency.

• In 1900, although he wished to serve another term as governor in order to complete and establish certain policies within the state, he was nominated for the vice-presidency of the United States on the ticket with President McKinley by the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia in spite of his protest.