John Adams fashioned much of pre-Revolutionary radical ideology, wrote the constitution of his home state of Massachusetts, negotiated, with Franklin and Jay, the peace with Britain and served as our first Vice President and our second President.

South Viet Nam has received $1,450,000,000 in United States aid since 1954 and the rate of assistance has been stepped up since Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's visit last May.

Carvey considers that former Vice President Nixon would be Brown's most formidable foe, with ex-Gov. Knight a close second.

`` Former Vice President Nixon came out in support of President Kennedy's program for stepping up the arms race.

Just a brief note of appreciation to Vice President Johnson and Pakistani camel driver Bashir Ahmad for providing a first-class example of `` people to people '' good will.

The Vice President had called and asked if he could see the Secretary at his home.

Lawrence stared a minute at the lighted ribbon of traffic, hoping that a clue to his dislike of the Vice President would appear.

A half hour later the Vice President arrived.

The Vice President said, `` If you hear of any names that would fix me cheap in return for advertising they decorated the Vice President's home, let me know.

The Vice President said with a slight bluster, `` There isn't anyone who loves the President more than I do.

You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??

The appointment of Gilbert B. Devey as General Manager of VecTrol Engineering, Inc., of Stamford, Connecticut, a leading manufacturer of thyratron and silicon controlled rectifier electrical controls, has been announced by David B. Peck, Vice President, Special Products.

Since Election Day, Vice President Richard Nixon had virtually retired -- by his own wish -- from public view.

In conferences with Nationalist China's dapper, diminutive Vice President Chen Cheng, Mr. Kennedy assured Chiang Kai-shek's emissary that the U.S. is as firmly opposed as ever to the admission of Red China to the United Nations.

A former Democrat Hannibal Hamlin of Maine was nominated for Vice President to balance the ticket.

Confederate Vice President Stephens led a group to meet with Lincoln, Seward, and others at Hampton Roads.

* 1912 – Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician 2nd Vice President of Indonesia ( d. 1988 )

* 1956 – Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.

* 1809 – Hannibal Hamlin, American politician, 15th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1891 )

* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )

The delegates did consider nominating Vice President Charles Dawes to be Hoover's running mate.

Charles Curtis, the nation's first Native American Vice President, was from the Kaw tribe in Kansas.

* 1860 – Charles Curtis, Vice President of the United States ( d. 1936 )

* 1852 – Charles W. Fairbanks, American politician, 26th United States Vice President ( d. 1918 )

Charles, Prince of Wales ( 3 November 1972 ), U. S. President Jimmy Carter ( 15 July 1978 ), and U. S. Vice President ( later President ) George H. W. Bush ( George Bush Senior ) ( 1 February 1983 ).

Thus, as Time magazine wrote during the controversial tenure of Vice President Charles G. Dawes, " once in four years the Vice President can make a little speech, and then he is done.

In 1933, incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis announced the election of House Speaker John Nance Garner as his successor, while Garner was seated next to him on the House dais.

The next Vice President, Charles G. Dawes, did not seek to attend Cabinet meetings under President Coolidge, declaring that " the precedent might prove injurious to the country.

Willkie left the selection of the candidate for Vice President to convention chairman Joseph W. Martin, Jr., who suggested Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary of Oregon.

* June 4 – Charles W. Fairbanks, Vice President of the U. S. ( b. 1852 )

* April 23 – Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1865 )

** Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1951 )

His Vice President, Charles Curtis, became the first person with non-European ancestry to reach such a high office.

* February 8 – Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President of the United States ( b. 1860 )

* March 11 – A Royal Navy fleet sails from Britain under Vice Admiral Sir Charles Napier.

** Charles Curtis, Vice President of the United States ( d. 1936 )

* Charles W. Fairbanks, Vice President from Indiana

Image: Charles W Fairbanks by Harris & Ewing. jpg | Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana

* Charles W. Fairbanks, former Vice President of the United States from Indiana

Image: Charles W Fairbanks by Harris & Ewing. jpg | Former Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana

Submitted in a command-wide contest, it was chosen as the winner by a three judge panel: General Curtis E. LeMay, Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Air Command ; General Thomas S. Power, Vice Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Air Command ; and Brigadier General AW Kissner, Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Command.

Charles Curtis ( January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936 ) was a United States Representative, a longtime United States Senator from Kansas later chosen as Senate Majority Leader by his Republican colleagues, and the 31st Vice President of the United States ( 1929 – 1933 ).

Born in January 1860 in Topeka, Kansas Territory prior to the arrival of statehood in January 1861, Vice President Curtis is notable as an Executive Branch officer born in a territory rather than state of the Union.

A widower when elected Vice President in 1928, Curtis had his half-sister " Dolly " Curtis Gann live with him in Washington, DC and act as his hostess for social events.

Curtis was the last Vice President to date who was unmarried while in office.

Following their landslide 58 % to 41 % victory, Curtis resigned from the Senate on March 3, 1929 to assume the office of Vice President.

Curtis ' term as Vice President ended on March 4, 1933.

* In Jim Thorpe – All-American ( 1951 ), a biopic about Native-American Olympian Jim Thorpe, newsreel footage from the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics includes Vice President Charles Curtis opening the Olympics,

Vice President Charles Curtis is shown in newsreel footage of the 1931 Kentucky Derby included in the film.

* " Charles Curtis ; Native-American Indian Vice-President ; a biography ", Vice President Charles Curtis Website

Riding along with Jojim was an eight-year old, part-Indian boy named Charles Curtis or “ Indian Charley .” Curtis would later become a jockey, a lawyer, a politician, and Vice President of the United States under Herbert Hoover.

* Charles Curtis, the only Native American to be elected Vice President of the United States ( under Herbert Hoover ( 1929 – 1933 )).

The last Vice President of the United States to wear any facial hair was Charles Curtis, who was in office from 1929 till 1933.

" When she was invited by Vice President Charles Curtis to preside over the Senate she took advantage of the situation to announce that she would run for reelection.

* Curtis H. Barnette, Trustee ; former Chairman and CEO of Bethlehem Steel ; former Fulbright Scholar ; B. A., West Virginia University ; J. D., Yale University ; admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia and before the U. S. Supreme Court and various federal courts ; appointed by President Ronald Reagan as a member of the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States in 1988 ; appointed by President George Bush to the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations in 1989 ; appointed by Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole as a member of the Coal Commission in 1990 ; President, Association of General Council ; Chairman, American Society of Corporate Secretaries ; Vice Chairman, Yale Law School Fund ; and Member, New York Stock Exchange Legal Advisory Committee ; Chairman of the WVU Foundation Board of Directors and the WVU Board of Governors ; Vice Chairman, Foundation for a Drug Free Pennsylvania ; Vice Chairman, Pennsylvania Business Roundtable ; Director, American Iron and Steel Institute ; Director, International Iron and Steel Institute ; Director, WLVT-TV, Channel 39