Trivia question. Dick Cheney is what number vice president? It's a toughie because of VP's that assumed the presidency, and presidents who had multiple veeps.
Two Vice Presidents served under more than one President--George Clinton, who served under Jefferson and Madison and died with 10 months and a couple of weeks left in his second term, and John Calhoun, who served under J. Q. Adams and Jackson, but resigned shortly before the end of his second term to take a seat in the Senate.
After John Adams, the first VP, the next one to complete a full eight years in the office was Thomas Marshall (1913-1921). Since then Garner, Nixon, and G. H. W. Bush have done so, and Cheney will be the sixth assuming nothing unexpected happens between now and Jan. 20, 2009.
7 Vice Presidents died in office: George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry, William R. King, Henry Wilson, Thomas Hendricks, Garret Hobart, and James Sherman.
The US had no VP for 7 out of 8 years in the 1880s--from Sept. 20, 1881 to March 4, 1885, then from Nov. 25, 1885 to March 4, 1889.
Dallas, Texas, is the largest city named for a Vice President of the United States.