Who was Vice President when you were born?

[CubsFan1982]

Poll question: Who was Vice President when you were born?

I'll start with George H. W. Bush as the most recent. He was veep when I was born. :puke:

If you happen to fall within the last choice on the poll, please specify which veep! :D

[Padraig18]

1. Nixon was '53-'61

:hi:

[CubsFan1982]

2. If you knew me, you'd realize how completely mortifying that is.

:P

[Padraig18]

3. Pffft!

Don't sweat the small stuff!

:pals:

[JitterbugPerfume]

4. John Nance Garner?

who knew?

[chaumont58]

45. VP Garner was VP when I was born

and I was in my 20s before I knew that the word nance was a euphemism. Garner said something like: "The vice presidency is not worth a bucket of warm spit." And I read that the saying was cleaned up by substituting the word spit.

[CubsFan1982]

5. Thanks.

I've forgiven myself, because it was an error of finger, and not of brain. :D

[Huckebein the Raven]

6. Walter Mondale

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

7. Alben Barkley?

I consider myself a student of political trivia, but I don't think I would have guessed him in a million years. Not old enough (yet) I guess!

[CubsFan1982]

9. Barkley was Harry Truman's VP in his 2nd term.

Truman didn't have a Vice President until he was re-elected, and it was Barkley who coined the term "veep".

[mcscajun]

12. He was VP when I was born, and today's the first time I heard of him.

:)

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

24. I think we need an Alben Barkely appreciation page

His name should be remembered.

[CO Liberal]

37. Al-BEN!!! Al-BEN!!! Al-BEN!!!!

:-)

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

41. Alben Barkley Factoids

Was the last Vice President to have been actually born in a log cabin.

Was the Vice President for whom the term "Veep" was coined (by his ten-year-old grandson."

Was the first to use the phrase "Give 'em hell" in connection with Harry S. Truman.

Was on Roosevelt's short-list to be Vice President in 1944.

Was the Senate Majority Leader during most of the New Deal and World War II.

Was the only Vice President to be married while in office -- after the death of his wife, the seventy-plus year old Barkley married at woman half his age. Long before Bob Dole started hawking Viagra, I might add!

[CubsFan1982]

43. Don't forget.

The oldest Vice President in US history. :D

[Hepburn]

8. None...

....when HST came in after FDR died, there was no VP.

Born in 1947.

[NightTrain]

10. FDR had three different VPs? I never knew that.

Anybody know why? :shrug:

[CubsFan1982]

11. Ask and ye shall receive.

Garner was too conservative for FDR, and opposed his court-packing plan. Plus, Garner wanted to be President himself, and actually had his name in the primaries in 1940 against FDR.

FDR said he wouldn't run again in 1940 unless he had Henry Wallace on the ticket. Rather than face the unthinkable, the Democratic National Convention acquiesced and nominated Wallace.

Truman was nominated VP because Wallace was seen as too liberal by party bosses. Truman had distinguished himself in the Senate as the head of a committee invesitgating waste in government contracts during the war, was from a "border state", and had a good civil rights record, thus was seen as a good compromise.

[RevolutionaryActs]

13. Reagan and Pappy Bush. What a lovely couple, don't you think?

:scared:

[Kire]

14. Nelson A. Rockefeller

I didn't even know that. Thanks for the poll!

[ceile]

35. I didn't know either....

The mid 70's seem to be a rather dull time in American political history.

[Hand]

15. Barkley...

And until this moment I wouldn't have been able to tell you!

:hi:

[CubsFan1982]

16. kick

It's educational. :D

[KitchenWitch]

17. None

I was born 5 months after JFK was assassinated.

[UrbScotty]

38. My parents were born when we were veep-less, too.

Dad was born when Barkley was VP-elect.

[Zuni]

18. Mondale of Minnesote

[Left Is Write]

19. Mr. Humphrey.

[meow2u3]

20. Tricky Dick I -- and on his way out!

eom

[xmas74]

21. Rockefeller.

Ford had just become president.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

22. Walter Mondale had just a few more days in the job when I was born

Just before the transition occurred to George HW Bush

[tjwmason]

23. Mondale (thanks for the dates)

I didn't actually know, I can vaguely date most post-war V.P.s, and all post-war Presidents - which I think is not too bad for a limey (how many can date post-war British Prime Ministers?).

[CubsFan1982]

27. I'll give it a shot.

It's hazy up until Thatcher, but I'll give a try.

Clement Attlee (1945-51)
Winston Churchill (1951-55)
Anthony Eden (1955-8)
Harold MacMillan (1958-63)
Sir Alec Douglas-Home (1963-4)
Harold Wilson (1964-71)
Edward Heath (1971-4)
Harold Wilson (1974-77)
James Callaghan (1977-9)
Margaret Thatcher (1979-90)
John Major (1990-7)
Tony Blair (1997- )

Is that anywhere near correct?

[tjwmason]

32. I'm very impressed

I dount that many Brits could get that close.

Eden was 1955-1957, with Macmillan starting in 1957 - the Suez Crisis.

Wilson's first term ended in 1970, and his second term in 1976.

U.S. President's are much easier as all you need to know is the order and single or double term (F.D.R. and J.F.K. excepted).

In many ways I would love to add to your list Tony Blair 1997-2005, but as many commentators are suggesting that a Tory victory is possible in this year's election I'll refrain from doing so.

[CubsFan1982]

40. I wasn't sure about Wilson and Heath.

I couldn't remember who was sandwiched between whom, if Wilson had served twice or Heath twice. Then I remembered seeing an episode of Fawlty Towers when Basil is bemoaning the state of affairs at the hotel and blames it on "bloody Wilson". Sad, innit? :D

[Pab Sungenis]

28. Date them?

Weren't they all married?

Seriously, I can remember Attlee, Churchill again, Eden, Macmillan, then I draw a blank until we get to Wilson, Heath, Wilson, Callaghan, Thatcher, Major, and Blair. Couldn't give you dates for anyone before Thatcher.

[tjwmason]

31. All were married apart from Sir Edward Heath

Tory P.M. 1970-'74; I can, however, provide a very long list of reasons why nobody in their right mind would want to date him.

[Bluzmann57]

25. Born in 1957 so Icky Dick was the veep

Unfortunately for the USA, he became president 12 years later. The rest, as they say, is history.

[ComerPerro]

26. Ronald Reagan. I was seven when he left office, so

I don't really remember anything about the Reagan administration.

But, then again, neither did he.

[terrya]

29. Nixon was Vice President when I was born (1956) n/t

[LionInWinter]

30. Hubert Horatio Hornblower ...

er, I mean Humphrey. (sorry President Carter!)


"And the party of a great man who should have been president, who would have been one of the greatest presidents in history, Hubert Horatio Hornblower — Humphrey." - President Jimmy Carter at the 1980 Democratic Convention.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5464091/

[shesemsmom]

33. Nixon

UUGGHH!!

[katinmn]

46. Me too. I had no idea Tricky Dick was VP then

DU is such and educational environment.

[Mojambo]

34. Agnew, but it was very close to his end. n/t

[regnaD kciN]

36. Let me make one thing perfectly clear...

...I had the misfortune of having Richard Milhous Nixon in the Vice-Presidency when I was born. And make no mistake about that!

[deadparrot]

39. Nimrod Senior.

Of course, compared to his spawn, Ol' Pop is practically a saint.

[Robeson]

42. None, I was born shortly after JFK was shot...

[Biased Liberal Media]

44. Mondale

[NYdemocrat089]

47. None of the above...

Dan Quayle (1989-1993)